
In 2014 alone, Australian aid:
- Helped get 1.3 million more children into school
- Built more than 9,000 new classrooms
- Trained over 100,000 teachers
- Equipped more than 400,000 farmers with better technology
- Vaccinated more than 2.3 million children
- Supplied 2.9 million people with access to safe drinking water
- Ensured nearly 1 million more mothers had access to a skilled birth attendant
- Increased access to basic sanitation for over 1 million people
- Provided critical services for more than 66,000 women who have survived violence
- Responded to emergencies in 24 countries including Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and flooding in Solomon Islands
Incredibly, these life-saving investments were achieved by a program on which we invest
less than one per cent of the Federal Budget.