Donating
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- BonSeff0
im no foriegn aid expert
just this question struck me as crass
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so you didn't give them anything then?
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- abstrakt0
i meant giving something is better than not giving anything. even if $5 makes it over there. that's enough to save a life and keep the person alive.
- ********0
Hope all is well anway. I'm out :)
- abstrakt0
this is a good idea gone wrong. i think it's going to discourage people more than encourage.
but so far Red Cross has been confirmed to give 90% to the effort. also Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org) gives 90%. anybody know about the other orgs?
- johndiggity0
$50 to the red cross and linked it on my site as well.
- ********0
Starbucks donated $100,000.
I'd like to know how much their directors rake in...
- stewart0
i donated 50 euro's
but it seems not to be enough?
i still get this message again and again
http://www.newstoday.com/_tpl/qb…btw, all dutchies together donated 30,000,000,- euros at this moment
- clerk0
the swedes have donated 48 million euros so far.
- toe_knee0
"Seven-time world Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has made the biggest donation by an individual so far offering $US10million ($12.87 million)."
I sold my pill on NYe and gave the money to charity.
- de4k0
The UK has donated £78million so far which is great, and sounds like a lot, but it only actually equates to about £2 per person.
Compare that to the £4 BILLION the UK spent this Christmas on COSMETICS ALONE.
We will stop donating once the media coverage fades too but the affected areas will still need a whole lot more, for well passed the next twelve months.
If it's possible to give a little more and not purchase those ltd edition nikes this month then do so.
- winter0
i'm beginning to think that people are donating just to show up on the bright side.
Did you donate to Iran? Do you do the same 2 blocks away?
Let's hope so.
I wonder if people are so good when the lights are off.
- toe_knee0
hey winter.... you need some sun
- jox0
I donated quite a lot.
- tomkat0
i have no money to donate right now.
Thats why I try to organize a concert/party here in town, with all benefits going to red cross. Entrance fee is set a certain minimum (10 bucks), but people are free to pay as much as they want..
- -_MU_-0
I donated what i could afford, but damn I wish it was more. need a new job, damnit =(
- Blofeldt0
This may be a little off topic, but does anyone else hope that something like this makes you people just how petty and pointless arguments between people over religion, over money, over land etc are And how at the mercy of the earth we actually are and how lucky we are it doesn't kill more of us more often with unexpected technonic movements.
PS, wouldn't mind a creationists theroy on earth quakes.
- Blofeldt0
oops, I wrote you people, actually, i meant to write just people. I wasn't having a go at the lovely NT posters
- abstrakt0
blofeldt, i was reading an article about religious excuses for the earthquake. the christians were blaming it on something, the muslims were blaming it on the assasination of one of their leaders or somethings, another groups was blaming it on something else... relgion at it's finest. making spiritual excuses for natural events, all having to do with punishment. what do all the USA haters in the arab world think of this? that side of the world gets taken out and we're all cushy over here. do they ever think their god loves us more?
- Blofeldt0
I think many find it easier to deal with something we have no control over by imparting some supernatural meaning upon it. It's like the enlightenment neer happened old boy.
Here's an article relating to commemorative silences
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunam…