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Originally Posted by Saint:

News reports from Syria (and the like) where another crisis is reported.

Cue lots of people standing in front of TV cameras crying for assistance and saying they are being 'slaughtered'.

Truth be told these are the dissedents/protestors/terrorists that started the whole thing in the hope of seizing power ... and lost to Gov forces. 

Yeah! It's those pesky dissident children's own fault that they're being bombed relentlessly by a well armed ruling power! And those ones that left their flattened rubble of homes to live in a tent need to realise they're at a holiday camp and stop looking cold on the news and asking for blankets so they don't freeze to death

SazBomb

Not really, cos I didn't really answer the question

 

I have monthly DD to 3 charities and have made one off donations to 3 others I think in the last 3 months, I lose track. I always feel like what I do donate is never enough though, I mean what is ÂĢ10, ÂĢ20 or even ÂĢ50 when you look at the scale of what the charities are doing? Oh and to redress the balance, some of the ones are at-home charities and some are overseas:

 

http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/

 

http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-projects

 

https://www.shelter.org.uk/

 

http://www.redcross.org.uk/

 

Just to mix it up a bit Hopefully I helped someone get a Christmas dinner, and some food to last until payday in January though 

SazBomb
Originally Posted by SazBomb:

oh I forgot the NSPCC, they always get me, with their adverts on TV with the sad looking kids

I tend to have the television on a lot - mostly in the background to break up the silence during the day. The number of charity adverts is astonishing - Save The Children, NSPCC, RSPCA, World Vision, Donkey Sanctuary, clean water charities are just a few. They seem to be on a loop and it has come to the point where we are being bombarded at every ad break. Each of the charities I mentioned is worthy, but imo there is an element of overkill atm, which could cause people to become desensitised to the plight of aforementioned children and animals.

 

 

Yogi19

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