Anger As Funds Delayed For War Zone Children

Almost 3,500 children in overseas battle zones were dealt a bitter blow yesterday after it emerged that British Government welfare funding would be held for a year.

- Cyril Dixon

Aid charity War Child has begged Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Dominic Raab to reverse the decision to delay Aid Match payments until next April.

Under Aid Match, any donations from the public to charities on the scheme are equalled pound for pound by the Government.

But War Child has been told the £500,000 it would get to match its fundraising target for rescuing, feeding and educating Afghan youngsters is postponed.

The decision – which stems from the Government’s decision to cut aid expenditure by 0.2 per cent of Gross National Income – means 3,430 children will be without support.