To send an email regarding nursery asking for donations to Samaritan’s Purse?

[TeddyIsaHe]

DD’s nursery are asking for donations to Samaritan’s Purse. Everything they stand for (very anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim) are against my beliefs. DD’s nursery is very diverse, including Muslim children.

Do I send a very chill email just explaining that? I guess they have no idea about it, which most don’t unless you do some digging.

My kids school collected for local people. There was a giving tree with tags - you selected the one you wanted which had a code (to keep it anonymous) and a gift type or person description eg warm gloves and scarf for an older lady or travel sized board games for 7 year old. You then packed into a shoe box with (suggested) a treat and appropriate extras, wrapped and put the code on the label. We would add chocolate, toiletries etc and usually chose an older person.

Any school can set this up via community centres, churches, ymca etc.

Because they need an in to trick innocent children into thinking Islam is evil and Christianity is the saviour.

It’s bonkers. As proven quite well on here

@Frdd

How do you justify sending plastic tat all round the world when money spent in the local area has a better effect?

You can do that - maybe pop something into your local food bank.

This has comes up every year and has done since I joined Mumsnet yeaes ago, there can hardly be a school or nursery that hasn't been told.

In all my sons school life (he was at the same school from reception to sixth form) we never donated. Its not compulsory!! It did make me think rather less of the staff who organised it though.

@movingonup20

My kids school collected for local people. There was a giving tree with tags - you selected the one you wanted which had a code (to keep it anonymous) and a gift type or person description eg warm gloves and scarf for an older lady or travel sized board games for 7 year old. You then packed into a shoe box with (suggested) a treat and appropriate extras, wrapped and put the code on the label. We would add chocolate, toiletries etc and usually chose an older person.

Any school can set this up via community centres, churches, ymca etc.

That sounds like a great thing to do. I guess we have missed the opportunity to give harvests gifts this year, so this is a great way to catch up with people in the community who can’t get out much.

I don’t give to my local food bank as they are associated with an evangelical Protestant church.

I do donate to non religious charities of my choice.

What has that to do with the fact that Samaritan’s purse sends plastic shite all around the globe? Don’t you think that’s environmentally a bad thing?

@TeddyIsaHe

Because they need an in to trick innocent children into thinking Islam is evil and Christianity is the saviour.

It’s bonkers. As proven quite well on here

There’s no evidence for that - just an echo from other haters.

@Frdd

I don’t give to my local food bank as they are associated with an evangelical Protestant church.

I do donate to non religious charities of my choice.

What has that to do with the fact that Samaritan’s purse sends plastic shite all around the globe? Don’t you think that’s environmentally a bad thing?

My, you do have a problem...

And what problem would that be exactly?

There’s no evidence for that - just an echo from other haters.

There's plenty of evidence. For someone who claims not to know much about them, you seem strangely defensive of such a repulsive organisation.

@Frdd

And what problem would that be exactly?

Hatred of evangelicals...

I didn’t say I hated them. Protection, much?

I dislike their aims and I don’t agree with them therefore I choose not to donate to them.

That’s my right.

*Projection

@MadameMeursault

Just read that Wiki link - in 2014 they threatened to sue Mumsnet!

Ah good times. It was all very heated.

I think promoting local charities that serve the surrounding communities are a better for schools. Our schools all do this, local area stuff. And yes, email the school steering them toward local stuff.

I sent a teacher at DDs school a very factual email with links when they were doing this. The teacher was very shocked and cancelled it immediately and they have never done it again
Don’t say anything potentially libellous though

The school did Trussel Trust donations instead
I personally would prefer to donate to a local charity rather than Trussell Trust.

Trussell Trust is a profit making company not a charity.

@PrayingandHoping

I looked into some of these shoeboxes a few years ago and was shocked at the organisation and organisations tbh

I went with Women's Aid. Contacted our local one and they ask for children presents (new, not homemade and unwrapped) to give to those children who end up being helped by them. Wonderful organisation who are always incredibly grateful. We've been doing it now for 6 years

I can second this.

@StarCat2020

The school did Trussel Trust donations instead I personally would prefer to donate to a local charity rather than Trussell Trust.

Trussell Trust is a profit making company not a charity.

Profits are reinvested into the projects themselves or into working towards our vision of a UK without the need for food banks.

www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/social-enterprises/

There are no shareholders and no-one makes money from any profit from their social enterprises. It's all ploughed back into the charity's work.

What you've said is like moaning because your local charity shop makes a profit.

@StarCat2020

The school did Trussel Trust donations instead I personally would prefer to donate to a local charity rather than Trussell Trust.

Trussell Trust is a profit making company not a charity.

2020 Reg. Charity in England & Wales (1110522) and Scotland (SC044246). Reg. Ltd. Co. in England & Wales (5434524)

Definitely make your thoughts know to nursery. My own personal opinion of them is that they are scum.

This is the charity run by Franklin Graham who said that Moslems don't worship the same God as Christians. He has said things against homosexuals too. I wouldn't give them any money.

@jennywhitehorses

This is the charity run by Franklin Graham who said that Moslems don't worship the same God as Christians. He has said things against homosexuals too. I wouldn't give them any money.

No one is forcing you to give them money, but do give it elsewhere, if you are able.

OP, there are some good alternatives listed here, along with detail about why Samaritans Purse is problematic which you could share with the school.

humanism.org.uk/humanism/humanism-today/humanists-doing/good-causes-and-charities/samaritans-purse/

I seem to recall quite a few years ago a mumsnetter who lived in a mainly Muslim Balkan state (I think in Bosnia) who had these Samaritans purse shoeboxes turn up in her child’s nursery.

I think she was quite shocked as they weren’t poor uneducated refugees whose children didn’t have toys and gifts.

[quote CraftyGin]www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/frequently-asked-questions/[/quote]
Try looking at the US site, not the UK one, it's much more open with the homophobia and Islamophobia. With our laws and sulture over here, they're much more covert.

So I make donations to local charities for local people.