> Now its the festive season our lives are blighted by beggars asking for
> money in the name of charity. Only tonight did someone knock on my door to
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> There - Rant over !!!!
Sooo. You are a charity. You raise money to provide much needed services.
How do you do that? That's right you wait for the charity fairy to do it all
for you. The charity fairy provides someone to open the post, to bank the
money, to account for the money, someone to figure out where the money
should go, to be where wherever it is going to make sure it is spent
properly, someone to order the equipment food and clothes, someone to
organise the transport and distribution, someone to make sure that all these
people are doing there jobs, someone to recruit them, someone to write and
prepare the information to let you know where there is a disaster. But then
again you could just travel to the Sudan or Iraq or the Congo or Bangladesh
or anywhere else with your 10 dollars or pounds or euros, spend 300 dollars
and give your 10 dollars to someone. Yeah that's likely. Give or don't give
but if you don't give do it because you don't give a damn, not because of
some lame excuse that some of that 10 dollars or pounds has to go on the
means to get it to the right person. If you are interested, and I doubt if
you are, that would be about 5 - 10 cents to the dollar.
Merry Xmas
Stuart Adair - 12 Dec 2004 10:20 GMT
Your missing the point a bit here.
Do you really, really think that you putting a ?1 in a charity box is going
to make any difference to anyone at all. 20 years ago Africa was a problem
and we were all told to raise millions to solve the issues. We all donated
our hard earned cash, and the result is the 20 years later its in the same
trouble and we are being asked again to pay our hard earned cash.
If the world leaders were really serious about helping other countries
(Something I'm not averse to) then let them cancel world debt - I pay enough
in taxes without giving any more money away.
I maintain my position that the purpose of organised charity is to keep
administrators and pen-pusheers in the job.
Stu
>> Now its the festive season our lives are blighted by beggars asking for
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> Merry Xmas
Vlad - 14 Dec 2004 19:24 GMT
>Your missing the point a bit here.
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>> Merry Xmas
My late brother went to Mozambique to help rebuild some textile
industry many years ago.
During the evening he frequented some exclusive club were he could get
good and inexpensive food, not available to the local people.
He did some inquiring and was told that the main source of food and
money was provided by the good Canadian people.
A doctor friend of mine that was familiar with the some research
donations told me once that "there is more people living out of cancer
then dying of cancer"
Some organizations explore this generic need that most people have to
be "good" others as the late payment for the last trip.
That "one way" sign at the cemetery's entrance made me smile.
I help organizations that are run by voluntaries for a well defined
cause and frequently attend the regular meetings