29-05-2013, 08:59 AM
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I prefer to help local charities and seeing as donating money isn't an option for me ( apart from a dollar here and there in a collectors tin) I sometimes help out in the meals on wheels depot or do the odd afternoon in the animal welfare league cat boarding facility just giving the cats a cuddle for their owners while they're on hols or in hospital etc.
29-05-2013, 09:21 AM
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well we've started up a wopper here! - not everyone is happy with Oxfam including an African family who were overjoyed to be offered a job by them and came to England only to become bitterly dissapointed, read all about it http://angryafrican.net/2008/04/13/a...and-me-2002-2/and then there is:http://www.spiked-online.com/index.p.../article/4180/
just leave you with these two for the moment but you can believe I have a tonne more when ya ready Alan - in the meantime keep giving the money folks!
next time I'll tell you why the bookshops of England aren't too happy with Oxfam.
Oxfam for me represents the guilty conscience of the West - give to Oxfam and ease your guilty conscience - then you can sleep easily knowing you've eased poverty somewhere in the world for 10 mins!
29-05-2013, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by maggis
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I prefer to help local charities and seeing as donating money isn't an option for me ( apart from a dollar here and there in a collectors tin) I sometimes help out in the meals on wheels depot or do the odd afternoon in the animal welfare league cat boarding facility just giving the cats a cuddle for their owners while they're on hols or in hospital etc.
29-05-2013, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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There may be a good chance I have posted similar before.
29-05-2013, 09:43 AM
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here's a nice little snippet which I have the url to if anyone needs it!
29-05-2013, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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There is much spouting on many subjects, politics, religion, Gender Bending, but at the end of the day, how much do these major issues impact on your everyday lives, it's alright gobbing off on these issues, but would you alter your everyday regime, to fundamentally change the way things are?.
we may not necessarily be able to 'fundamentally change the way things are' but chatting among ourselves we may be able to give others a new perspective on things and they can then influence others.I will give you an example, on our sister site Dogsey many spoke out over the years about cruel methods of training dogs and those who promoted them and gave alternative methods of training. The alternative methods are now becoming mainstream and cruel methods and device used less and in the case of one country banned
. I think of our 'chatter' as a drop of water in the stream that adds to content of the oceans which affect us all.
29-05-2013, 11:31 AM
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Giving £50 now and again to Oxfam may not make me "Brother Teresa" but if it eases someones poverty for 10 minutes it's better than not doing anything at all. With regards to someone having money regularly taken out of their bank account by Oxfam, I give via Paypal and have had no trouble at all.|
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