Sponsor a child in Africa

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After seeing this picture in another damn religious thread I've guilted myself into sponsoring at least a couple of children in Africa. A simple goog search brings up plenty, but does anyone have any info on which programs are the best/ do not use much money for "expenses".

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Mail that fucker a book on how to grow potatoes or something

Or at very least what plants are edible in his area

Problem solved
 
Socialism is the root of most of their problems. When you send aid, most of it is stolen by the gov'ts. If not, when it goes to market it depresses the prices in the local markets and causes more local farmers, etc to go out of business.
 
Even if 10% of it gets to those kids it's still worth it. Unfortunately I just watched what about Schmidt and its kinda depressing that his little penpal was his only friend
 
CharityNavigator.org shows where every dollar is spent. There are some really good charities out there and there are some fucked up ones, but it only takes a couple of seconds to do a search and find out.
 
BigWill said:
Mail that fucker a book on how to grow potatoes or something

Or at very least what plants are edible in his area

Problem solved
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Stupid. How many children starving to death do you think learn to read? :love-smiley-086:
 
BigWill said:
I never said it had to have writing. Simple illustrations would do..
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ha do you think there will be anyone for them to illustrate things on screens ;)
and on top of that if they manage to learn shit do you think they are healthy enough to take care of plants.
 
I've been sponsoring this little girl from Zambia through WorldVision for like $30 a month. I was browsing through their "Kid Catalogue" and this girl caught my eye cuz she was interested in computers and art. Reminded me of myself when I was a kid so I sponsored her. She sends me drawings and greeting cards once in a while.

I don't really care what percentage goes to WorldVision salaries and what percentage goes to actually feed the child. Who am I to judge how they run their organization? At least they're trying to do something first hand for those kids. $30 a month is peanuts here, I spend more than that in useless shit on Amazon and Ebay every month.
 
BigWill said:
Mail that fucker a book on how to grow potatoes or something

Or at very least what plants are edible in his area

Problem solved
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This is either ignorance or guilt. Either way, you've got my attention.
 
It's funny to read some of these comments, people think that these people don't know how to cultivate food or work, when in actuality most of them work way harder than we ever will for shit. Believe it or not choices and the liberties we face aren't always easily accessible. when your household only makes $1/day the last thing you are worried about is trying to grow a fucking potato in desert like conditions. It's not like that kid became addicted to crack like the stinky homeless ass rag you find at the street corner, fucker doesn't have a choice, it's sad really.

/rant

but fuck big charities I would look at your local church that does mission's or some shit to ensure that the money is well spent instead of some big ass thing like red cross or sally struthers lol
 
charlesmartel said:
Socialism is the root of most of their problems. When you send aid, most of it is stolen by the gov'ts. If not, when it goes to market it depresses the prices in the local markets and causes more local farmers, etc to go out of business.
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^^^ THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS ^^^

Also, I appreciate the idea of Charity Navigator, but you cannot know that they are both telling the truth AND have the same criteria in mind as you do on each issue. Do they take things into consideration like how local warlords are going to steal this child's family goat because he sees your shipments? Do they consider your donation's effect on the local economy as prices there rise and hurt others around your sponsored child?

Sending money to a place you've never been, presumably to solve problems that you can't imagine is just foolish. You literally can do more damage than good, in more ways than one... I know Sally Struthers' foundation kept stepping in that trap over the years.

Yeah, it sucks to see pictures like the one above but why not pick a charity that you can KNOW that you've made a difference for the better in?



Edit: Had to throw this in for you guys struggling with the Zen of this all:

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