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walk2write's avatar

I take the cynical view that most “charities” do not actually help the people they purport to support. My 93-year-old mom still remembers a time when she and my dad were so poor that they had one potato to eat, no milk for their young daughter (my older sister), and a week to go before my dad’s next paycheck. My dad applied for assistance from the Red Cross and was denied. He had to pawn his watch to buy a little food for the week and swore that the Red Cross would never get a dime from him. My own encounters with churches and other so-called nonprofits, which hoard tithes and donations in extensive bank accounts and expensive real estate (for which they pay no tax) instead of letting their currency flow out to those who truly need it, have made me suspicious of their charity and mostly unwilling to support them. Food banks are a notable exception to my rule.

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Stuffysays's avatar

Good article!

You know what gets me cross? The fact that "anecdotal evidence" is not considered real. That you and I can see people getting sick and know the only thing that has really changed in their lives is the constant jabbing with novel medications but, because we are not scientists in laboratories testing the jabs on monkeys, what we see is not considered real.

As for charities! I used to give lots of money to "worthwhile" charities until I realised they were not worthwhile and basically they were just using the money to keep themselves in business. My mother used to give sixpence a month to a lady from Oxfam back in the '60s - to "save the little black babies". Seems to me that Oxfam have failed pretty spectacularly over the last 60 years as those babies still seem to die. I gave money to WaterAid until I met a man who raised funds himself and went to Africa and dug wells in villages because WaterAid spent its time in hotels having meetings about digging wells. As for Unicef! I gave money until they announced they were going to jab every African child with the mRNA toxic crap to "save" them from something they didn't have whilst ignoring all the things they actually needed saving from (dirty water, lack of sanitation, lack of education etc). Charities are just global businesses that don't pay tax - bit like Bill Gates eh?

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