Just a moment of your time .....please

I should have read what the picture was about before I opened it. Very sad, but you are right, we are more concerned about obesity then we are of children who are starving. Some people are just oblivious of what is going on in the world.

so sad, but could anyone do something for them..?

I truly care but what can we as individuals do? If you know please tell me,It doesn`t leave my mind so easily,I wish I could adopt them all. So sad.

800 million came up missing? Does that mean they dont know where the money went?

OMG I really need to start watching more of the news lol. Thats a heck of alot of money to be stolen.

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Wow, this is horrible. I didnt realize i guess!!! I do need to watch the news more often!

Anyone been to a 3rd world country? I have. And I hate going there because I'm fat. But when I'm there I appreciate the fact that the money I can give to the charities that support them really do make a difference. But then I also realise that the keyword is the problem: charity.

The main issue with the 3rd world (specifically Africa) is that there is a level of corruption and an ethos of tribalism that the West doesn't like to talk about in the media because it might reflect badly on the place and discourage charitable investment.

I'm going out to Africa for Christmas again. Because I have family and friends there. But I'll still be going there as a fat man in a continent where Famine rides, and the discomfort will be with me still.

I think that's more of an average though. The problem with some charities is that to attract decent administrators they have to have attractive wage packages. I recall the Haig Fund getting lambasted a few years ago for taking on a CEO for an obscene amount of money while a significant percentage of veterans lived in poverty.

I guess charity in a capitalist society is more ironic than in a socialist one, eh?