Friday 11/8/06

I had a good chat with my boss today (yes work is that slow, its the silly season and everyone is on holiday) about how recently I gave money to someone who was doing a sponsored parachute jump for the irish wheelchair association. He said that 50% goes to the IWA and 50% to cover his expences. In retrospect, I am annoyed, as why should he ask people to pay for his hobby?? This happens pretty often, its like they are using the good cause as a vehicle to tug on people's heartstrings, but they still get their hobbies paid for. Of the people rattling buckets outside shopping centres, how many of those collecting are paid? ( I recently saw on tv, a woman admit to being paid 20 euro per hour for collecting, that's a sizeable chunk of the collected money gone straight away, and not where the donors thought it would be going to either!) And where does that money come from? So the question is how much of the money raised actually goes to the good cause? I wonder if you would ever find a celebrity, or any of the social elite at a "charity" fundraiser, at a hospital wiping drool off a person, or just chatting to them onepon one? I am going to be much more sceptical and discriminating now, and what annoys me most is that those who give the most to these people, are usually the ones who can least afford it.

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