Money!

One dark night in 1940 a small vessel slid out of the English Channel stacked with millions of pounds of British money, the ship was surrounded by destroyers who accompanied it to Canada where the money was placed into the 'safe hands' of the Canadian Government until after the war in Europe was over.
Last year 2011, the British Government gave 126 million dollars to Zimbabwe as a gift mainly to be used on education as many schools have no text books or indeed chairs.
The Zimbabwe Government spent 25,000 dollars on primary schools and absolutely nothing on secondary education.
Meanwhile they managed to scrape together 120.2 millions to spend on the office of Robert Mungabi and Prime Minister Tavangirai and a mere 5 million on updating Preident Mugabi's home (picture).

The value of money has changed so much over the years as we in Europe well know but so has the idea of   'putting your money into safe hands'.