Something which has puzzled me...

[Gazz]

When it shows those adverts on TV about the poor African children having to walk for 20+ miles everyday just to get a sip of water...

Why dont they just move and live closer to the water source?

[fatpies]

TBH it's big charity = scammers leechers and stuff, just look at how much the CEOs and the staff get paid. It does not have to make sense only to tug at your heart strings and make you hand over your money to poor starving/suffering children after of course paying for their massive massive salaries

Ever notice the bigger the charity gets the less they have to even try and justify them asking for your money?[/b]
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[Jayy]

I don't support any charities except my brothers one because I know 100% that nobody gets paid and the money is going exactly where they say it is.

There are probably many that do the same but I can't be bothered to go to the lengths to find out.

Charity starts at home as far as I'm concerned.

[Pete.]

I am of the same opinion.

If I had to choose one charity to give to it would be RNLI.
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[stonesie]

This year I will donate to the RNLI and Yorkshire Air Ambulance, and that will probably be all. These African charitys have been getting money donated to them for donkeys years, shouldn't they be getting on top of it by now?

[KLR600]

Not to take away from any of the work they do but you guys know that the RNLI are one of the richest charities in the UK right? My old boss at the place I used to work was a former Olympic Sailor trainer and worked for the treasury bit of the RNLI for a bit and he'd often regale tales about how rich they were. I can't substantiate any of this with fact/statistics but it's probably available through some information requests or something.

I agree with those saying charity begins at home, there are millions of people in the UK that are homeless, starving or well below the poverty line but any time there's a disaster somewhere in the world we seem to be quick to dig into our pockets. I'm not saying it's wrong to do that but how about we sort some of our own problems out first?
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[Skudd]

All Africa needs are more condoms and less bullets. Oh! and to come out of 1,000 years BC.
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[Pete.]

[Pete.]

Duplicate post
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Pete.]

Posting fail....
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[The999Kid]

I only donate to the British red Cross in the form of voluntary hours, and the Cystic Fibrosis research foundation because my best mate died from it... wouldnt wish that disease on my worst enemy...
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[ninja_butler]

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[Rogerborg]

Erskine for me.

If I did ever donate to Foobar Research, I'd just take a fistfull of tenners down to the local university research lab and give it to a research assistant. Ideally a Hot Librarian type. Tina Fey, in fact.

https://blogs.smarter.com/blogs/guests/tina%20fey%20eyeglasses.jpg

Therrrrre we go.

As far as anyone South or East of Dover - plus the Micks - is concerned, they can keep it in their grass skirt or badger skin pouch or whatever they wear, and decrease the surplus population. Are we past 7 billion yet? And most of them don't even know Shakespeare! The world must be de-peopled.
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[Walloper]

[Paddy Blake]

It boggles the mind really
I mean at the same time there are people that travel many miles to where they work.
Why don't they move near to where they work.?

[Pete.]

[fatpies]

[Walloper]

I walk a couple of miles to work but travel hundreds of miles to work then walk a couple of miles home.

What am I?
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[groovylee]

a pilot?
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[WishayKillie]

[Visitor Q]

Africa, by en large, is lovely.

Their problem is the 'Ethiopian boredom dance'.... or basically breeding themselves into starvation.

Lack of education or, more likely, just being dumb and lacking in common sense, Africa is a very odd place.

I won't be donating any money, ever.

Besides which, most of our 'very charitable' foreign aid ensures we can further use them. The more in debt they are, the more we can strip mine their country.

And they have shit loads of condoms. But hate using them (I can kind of see their point). They're now all getting circumcised as it drastically reduces infection rates.

Win.
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[R6 Wilson]

Only ever donate my shrapnel to charity if it means not having to carry it around

Otherwise I'm only prepared to donate my time

Done charity walks and stuff before, in Summer me and my brother plan on doing that walk from from 1 side of the country to the other, whatever it's called, for charity!
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