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Who Said We Aren't Compassionate
Children in Need tops overall 1 Billion, that's incredible.
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Sometimes we (I) need reminding of how things can change in an instant - I became an Aunt (again) a month ago.
Little sweetheart has been in hospital two weeks with a bad virus and encephalitis - seeing those little ones on television who have life long problems after similar happenings makes it all the more real.
We are all one tiny step away from needing support of some kind.
Little sweetheart has been in hospital two weeks with a bad virus and encephalitis - seeing those little ones on television who have life long problems after similar happenings makes it all the more real.
We are all one tiny step away from needing support of some kind.
I was shorn of knee-jerk-like repect as soon as charitable organisations are mentioned some decades ago when I was working in Sudan. At the time the only place recognisable as a café in the western sense was the one in the Hilton hotel in Khartoum. Every afternoon around 15.00 several white Land Cruisers, conspicuously among the very flashiest vehicles anywhere in the country, rolled up outside and out stepped various westerners (vast majority Brits) with walkie-talkies on their hips and swaggered into the café. When home on leave at one point I switched on the TV news: On there was one of these charity people describing how desperate the state was in Sudan due to flooding of the Nile, much more donations of money were needed in order to avert a catastrophe.
My work took me to both Niles (White and Blue) and I was unaware of water levels being particularly high. I concluded that the disparity pointed to something being missing in the equation and that it was the job security of the café-goers. As with religion (forming a "church" in Africa is one of the surest routes to financial security there), charity is now a form of business, even industry, complete with professions, salaries, managers/management, etc. I am very careful indeed on how I give money to any "charitable effort".
Separately, although the two no doubt sometimes occur simultaneously, I would never equate the bottom line of a collection campaign, which may be said to be public generosity with money, with compassion which is a state of emotion.
My work took me to both Niles (White and Blue) and I was unaware of water levels being particularly high. I concluded that the disparity pointed to something being missing in the equation and that it was the job security of the café-goers. As with religion (forming a "church" in Africa is one of the surest routes to financial security there), charity is now a form of business, even industry, complete with professions, salaries, managers/management, etc. I am very careful indeed on how I give money to any "charitable effort".
Separately, although the two no doubt sometimes occur simultaneously, I would never equate the bottom line of a collection campaign, which may be said to be public generosity with money, with compassion which is a state of emotion.
You need to see some of the projects to understand that often the type of need/care is outside what the 'system' can give.
These children need time, patience,understanding,play as much as anything else - Parents need time to do things in their daily life while their sick or dying children are in good company.
The remit is very broad and of course we won't all agree that all of the money is spent on what we'd like but overall I think they help a lot of deserving cases.
Yes Karl, compassion is often based on emotion, personal sometimes - without that we'd be made of stone.
These children need time, patience,understanding,play as much as anything else - Parents need time to do things in their daily life while their sick or dying children are in good company.
The remit is very broad and of course we won't all agree that all of the money is spent on what we'd like but overall I think they help a lot of deserving cases.
Yes Karl, compassion is often based on emotion, personal sometimes - without that we'd be made of stone.
That's an old excuse. If our highly paid, and claiming to be highly skilled, bosses had their pay curtailed they'd simply go and try to find work abroad, and the UK would find others equally talented willing to work for a reasonable amount and would be a fairer society for it. Whilst those that left find themselves competing for overpaid positions in places where incumbant overpaids are already established in their old boys' network.
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