when it comes to donating to 'medical' charitable causes like (ex-conjoined)nepalese twins, yishun siblings and indonesian boy. caused quite a stir in our english paper recently. is her view substantiated or are singaporean indeed gullible?
jsbn said:That is why "The Rich gets richer, the Poor gets poorer and all those who are experts in manipulation gets their way."
I had learnt to harden my heart since.
Its hard not to when u face ppl like this day in day out.student said:Please don't!
Get "wiser".
reachme2003 said:when it comes to donating to 'medical' charitable causes like (ex-conjoined)nepalese twins, yishun siblings and indonesian boy. caused quite a stir in our english paper recently. is her view substantiated or are singaporean indeed gullible?
reachme2003 said:when it comes to donating to 'medical' charitable causes like (ex-conjoined)nepalese twins, yishun siblings and indonesian boy. caused quite a stir in our english paper recently. is her view substantiated or are singaporean indeed gullible?
Sputnik said:you sure bring up very localised topics that are important to heartlanders (or at least that is what the gahmen calls us these days)... ever thought of venturing into politics?.. you will make a good spokesman for the common man (if not that .. even for us folks in CS)...
coupled with your experience in law and excellent studio photography skills ... you will go far .... maybe u can consider that your 2nd/3rd career
Happy shooting
nightpiper said:whats so strange about such charitable exploits? ever wonder if 100% of funds donated REALLY went to the Tsunami victims? time to grow up lah...
student said:It is totally unrealistic for 100% of funds to get to the intended beneficiary. But I expect about 80% (+/-) of the donated funds to get to the people.
I had once for for a charitable organisation. I needed to live too! Where do I get my bread? From the charity itself!
What Prof Lee is talking about is "relative exploitation" of donors' attitude, and the sometimes predicted/known futility of the exercise.