1,233 drugs introduced between 1975 and 1996 and only 13 aimed at tropical diseases.

In 1998 the world spent $70B on health research but only £300M was aimed at an HIV vaccine and only $100M for fighting malaria.

Does the world really need another verruca cream or athletes foot cream?

Goal 6 of the UN Millennium Development Goals is finding cures for HIV, malaria and TB plus miscellaneous diseases such as sleeping sickness and dysentery and cholera.

Even provision of condoms and malaria nets to prevent HIV and Malaria seems too difficult for most of Africa and what are Victorian diseases.

St Peter-in-Thanet school have asked us to consider a presentation on Thai food and their charity work as part of their Big Lottery World programmes.

A link to the UN list of nations without free primary education.

Some surprising countries: Russia, Romania, Egypt and so on.

http://www.right-to-education.org/node/289

A very interesting article on Teachers Day in thailand and a charity for Thai schools near Phuket which arranges teacher training/volunteer programmes within the Thai schools. We'd eventually like to get to this stage once the first dozen schools are built.

http://www.thaischoollife.com/national-teachers-day.html

Several of the Thai and African schools are already discussing the potential for exchange links.

Very interesting Lottery project with a Minster school afoot: awaiting more info.

One other fact from the post below: if the world population of the average wealth of Portugal (c.1B people) each donated £120 then the UNMDG would be achieved.

Almost all the UK population would be as wealthy as Portugal.