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Giggles did that for the tsunami relief
The video is interesting (i thought so anyway)
I think it is worth bearing in mind some things that seem to have escaped some posters: Children do not take eight or ten years to starve to death. Neither do they arrive out of their mother’s womb as eight or ten year olds. Also, it is never a bad thing to try and help people who are suffering.
@sharongooner wrote:
@minim wrote:
I am seriously thinking of volunteering to go out there and help build a well.
is that you being a “barbed sarcastic” or are you really considering it?
If so then good luck, nothing better than direct action, thats the best charity in my book.
Seriously considering it. They need volunteers in Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia, Thailand etc. etc.
Far as i know Giggles got a lot out of it go for it
@sword wrote:
Hasn’t this all been done before? 1985 and Live Aid comes to mind for the Ethiopian famine. So 23 years on, which country are they talking about when suggesting another major famine? Ahhhh yes Ethiopia.
It’s all very well handing over tax payers in other countries cash or humanitarian aid, but these countries eventually become dependant on handouts and do not ever manage to find the skills through education to become self sufficient. Their Govts won’t help because they are to busy spending money on bullets and bombs, so once again it is left to the West to bail them out.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And until these countries learn to become self sufficient there will be many more famines.
=D> =D>
One word DROUGHT
@minim wrote:
@sharongooner wrote:
@minim wrote:
I am seriously thinking of volunteering to go out there and help build a well.
is that you being a “barbed sarcastic” or are you really considering it?
If so then good luck, nothing better than direct action, thats the best charity in my book.
Seriously considering it. They need volunteers in Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia, Thailand etc. etc.
u and rubes could go mims……..build a well……….and make the rest of us ashamed.
@pats wrote:
@minim wrote:
@sharongooner wrote:
@minim wrote:
I am seriously thinking of volunteering to go out there and help build a well.
is that you being a “barbed sarcastic” or are you really considering it?
If so then good luck, nothing better than direct action, thats the best charity in my book.
Seriously considering it. They need volunteers in Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia, Thailand etc. etc.
u and rubes could go mims……..build a well……….and make the rest of us ashamed.
Id be far from ashamed. My whole point at the beginning of this debate is giving to charities and the percentage that actually reaches the charities. Direct action like Minim has suggested is one that I 100% agree with.
Charities that use huge amounts of their resources in advertising and paying themselves do not get any of my money.
I dont disagree atall with the concept of giving to those in need and educating those who need it in any country, but its how what we give is actually generated and how it gets directly to the needy I have a huge problem with.
Did anyone watch Tribal Wives on tv a while ago? Where a recovering alcholic Scottish woman went to live with an Ethiopian tribe for a while. She was shocked to tears (daily) at the way they lived… the way the women were treated by the men… the daily workloads they had to put up with… the fact there was NEVER any romance in their relationships etc etc? But the one thing she had the MOST trouble coming to terms with was just how HAPPY and content they all were.
If you were to offer just a few of them a new life in our “civilised” society they would probably turn round and tell you to shove it!
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