tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post2610132607581481446..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: THE WEEKENDER: Sweet Charity... For Whom? by WiggiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-3605311277463458432021-05-01T21:06:51.140+01:002021-05-01T21:06:51.140+01:00I spent some years as a voluntary secretary of a v...I spent some years as a voluntary secretary of a voluntary committee which raised about £500,000 p.a. for development work. I came to realize that the aid sector was a major growth injury and that many NGO employees earned considerably more than my clerical stipend. <br /><br />I started raising money in the parish and sending it directly to a diocese in Africa, but even then there was a great deal of money misspent.<br /><br />Finally, I settled upon a person to person approach. I give a hundred quid a month to an African agriculturalist working in poor rural communities. It subsidises him to continue working among poor villagers when he might have taken a lucrative post elsewhereIan Poultonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11606642647879307839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-71468529150718535582021-05-01T20:28:20.402+01:002021-05-01T20:28:20.402+01:00Hi Wiggia
People overlook locally run churches, t...Hi Wiggia<br /><br />People overlook locally run churches, they are a true charity that has worked for hundreds of years.<br /><br />My grandmother belonged to a church that also managed a rest home. She spent her last 4 years in it before she died. They covered what my dad couldn't pay.Jim in San Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09435296419912935381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-13618251107866173562021-05-01T20:23:47.968+01:002021-05-01T20:23:47.968+01:00The biggest offenders in the US are the various po...The biggest offenders in the US are the various police 'charities', which are basically slush funds.<br /><br />Or President Trump's charities, plus those of his children, which they have used as piggy banks to buy pictures and such for his country club.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.com