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Anyone doing anything at home with the dc for children in need tomorrow?

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Viv0321 · 12/11/2020 21:27

Anyone doing anything at home with the dc for children in

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Viv0321 · 12/11/2020 22:01

Anyone?

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MrsJunglelow · 13/11/2020 11:37

Definately not.

Where to start..

Child abuse has been known about within the BBC for a very long time and nothing has really been done.
They don’t care about children.

Those awful, awful videos showing poverty stricken, dying, usually black communities with a white, rich celebrity posing for photographs and walking round with the poor children strike me very much as playing ‘white saviour’ and a publicity stunt.
Look at me and how charitable I am..

A great deal of the trouble these poor children are in is due to war but what do you know, everyone is still going to war over nonsense like oil...

People donating for children in need while rejoicing as refugees, many of them children fail to get into this country where they would be safe.
They are drowning to death, being bombed, shot at.
But apparently that doesn’t matter because they are taking our precious jobs and taking over our country don’t you know?
Oh and they are all terrorists too Hmm

The whole thing really angers me tbh.

The rest of the time most people don’t think about the children in poverty here, the children starving in Africa, the children being bombed in Palestine etc etc.
They don’t donate or volunteer or anything but come children in need they are all clamouring to get signatures and donations to sit in a bath of beans or whatever to make themselves look good.

The poor shaming.
The idea that you must spare a fiver, a tenner, a twenty for the kids.
Even if you are starving yourself.

Not to mention the extraordinary amounts of money raised, yet nothing’s changing?!
No one thinks that’s a little odd?
If anything it’s getting worse for the worlds children.

No, I teach my children to be kind and respectful to all.
To help others.
To not judge others on the basis of where they have come from or their religion, orientation etc
And not engage in pathetic publicity stunts and virtue signalling.

MrsJunglelow · 13/11/2020 11:39

Oh, and the eye watering wealth of many of these big child charities and the accusations of abuse within them too.
Things are not what they seem.

raspberryk · 13/11/2020 11:40

No because what @MrsJunglelow said.
Also it amazes me about the whole very rich people asking not rich people to donate money. Donate your own damn money I’d you’re so bothered.

Gazelda · 13/11/2020 12:46

We will make an affordable donation this evening.

I have to say that while I acknowledge all that MrsJunglelow says, in my experience CIN is a very good funder.

They are very supportive of the children and young people supported by the charity I work for. Their application process is stringent but fair. They will not give out grants to the same cause endlessly, need and impact has to be proved. Their due diligence of who they make grants to is excellent, and their monitoring is proportionate. They have been flexible and open to conversations during lockdown when many services were unable to operate as normal. Their staff seem genuinely interested and caring. They seem quite quick to respond to changing needs and priorities.

I don't work for CIN, but thought I'd give my perspective as someone who has seen the real differences their funding makes to the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people.

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