One million for charity

[josh_the_hot_boy]

If you could give only one million dollars to any one charity what would it be.

maybe something like heifer international or the red cross you decide?

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

I'd give it for Médecins sans frontières

I already gave them "my part" of what my french grandfather left us. I didn't want any money from that man.

 

[Jamie]

You gave them the money your grandpa left you? I mean, ok, I can understand you didn`t want anything from that man but...you could have share that money with us You could have paid for our plane / bus/ train tickets for a GH gathering !!!! I mean, c`mon!!!

 

[goejavin]

The cause I would donate it to would be for the prevention of teen suicide. The specific organizations would vary since I'd want to spread the money around internationally.

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

You gave them the money your grandpa left you? I mean, ok, I can understand you didn`t want anything from that man but...you could have share that money with us You could have paid for our plane / bus/ train tickets for a GH gathering !!!! I mean, c`mon!!!

That was seven years ago ^^

 

[Jamie]

I would never donate anything...well, let`s say if I was filthy rich I would but If I had like 1 million dollars or so, I wouldn`t donate... unless I would be a part of the organization I`m donating to... What`s the use? People donate every single day for cancer cure ...for so many years...is there a cure? NO! All they do is pump medicines inside you, poison which kills both good and bad cells and if you manage to survive the disease : WOW! The medicine works! If you don`t: Too bad, he/she came at a late stage to us... ma va! Bullshit! The Red Cross...what good does the Red Cross do? You donate and when you need their help it`s not like the manager or the persons that deal with all the money takes care of you...no, it`s always some nurse, some doctor who has a bad day or he/she is just too bored and you say: it hurts!!! I`m gonna dieeee! and they just respond: yeah...whatever! You have to stop yelling! I broke my bones and they did a shot for the pains ...and I`m telling you, the pains were so big, I felt like fainting...and I asked how much time does it take for the medicine to take effect and they said: half an hour! WHAT? I have to stay half an hour with these pains? Better kill me now!
And so on...

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

Once again you shocked me.

I wrote about half a site, but I decided not to post it.

I only can say that I'm disappointed.

 

[Squallmuzza]

Probably something like Cancer Research, despite what Jamie said, I know they are making new findings and developments constantly, and they can all work towards create some kind of easing of the pain, if not an entire cure. It's something quite personal to me right now as my grandmother (who is closer to a mother than anything to me) is beginning to lose her fight with lung cancer now... Fucking sucks. I'd move the earth for that woman.

Or perhaps some for Alzheimers as well.... I can't think of a worse condition to be blighted with. Not being able to care for yourself and forgetting who people are, who you are... I'd rather be dead than face that, so if there could be anything done in that ends... I'd love to help it.

 

[AlSun]

@Jamie:

Like rascalcat I'm a little shocked & puzzled too.

You might have had experiences but making it a general rule not donating because of that is imho wrong. There are so many other organizations of all different kinds which need support.

Since I'm a kid I donate. It's not much but as long as I can I will continue doing that.
Imho everybody has the responsibility to give something back and if it's not money you can give then donate time and do volunteering.



If I could split the money I'd give one half to a regional project and the other half to Médecins sans frontières.

Just my

 

[Jamie]

Ok, for all of you to know, what I wrote last night was something I said while being angry...but very angry and I had my reasons... Yesterday was a shitty day for me and some people just make me wanna go and live into the woods all alone or something... it`s not about the forum or people on it...it`s just something that happened here...
Anyways, I too donate. Maybe not for organizations or dunno what other companies because I wouldn`t know where to go and do that but I always give when they make this food charity for the poor or when they gather in fron of the superstore and they say you can donate some ailments for children ...they give you a bag and you just buy some and pay and when you get out, you give that bag back to them with the things you bough. I always do that and I know it`s not much but I`m not a bad and cheap dick person. What I said last night...hmmm...I was angry because things are not working well for me these days and I hate that my mom died of the fucking cancer and if she was still alive I wouldn`t have been forced to come in this fucking Italy and see all the racism and how foreigners are treated so low...especially romanians...eh, nevermind...sorry I shocked you with my reply earlier...it wasn`t my intention.

P.S. And before you comment saying I`m not the only one losing a parent and dunno what, if you haven`t lost your because of cancer , don`t talk! It is a difficult period, I was young, I needed my mom...I was there when they said it`s cancer, I took her to every chemo sesion, I was there when she lost her hair, I was there when she died And trust me, watching your mom die in front of you when you`re 22 is not easy and it shocks you for life...people tend to say: try to get over it, try to live your life...right, how? ever seen a person dying in front of you, in your arms? Ever seen a parent dying in your arms? If you haven`t, you cannot know how I felt and how I feel everyday...It was me who realized she is really gone and I am stuck with a step dad which made my life a living hell since he married my mom, I was there when he said he wants to sell the only apartment we had...I was there when he did all these horrible things in the past which I won`t mention...and trust me, living in a country where the minimum wage is 150 Euros and to rent a place costs 100 Euros/month is not easy so yes, I have all the reasons in the world to be angry!Because it all started when my mom got sick when they discovered it`s cancer...and no, I don`t think they will ever find a cure for cancer... ever.

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

:hug:

 

[Thor]

as far as I'm concerned, charity begins at home so i would never donate that much to any one or several organizations, i would disperse it locally myself

 

[brmstn69]

I'm sorry, but I probably wouldn't donate it either. Instead I'd use it to start a business that helps people. Like a wheelchair transportation service. Having worked for some of these companies in the past, I know how they operate. The companies I worked for had other interest though, so most of the profits went to them instead of improving service. Like one was owned by the cab company, so the cabs got all the best service and our trucks were left to fall apart. People would miss doctors appointments or sit there waiting for 2 hours because we didn't have enough running vans to get them. The people were always grateful for the service and for many, it was the only time they get out and we were the only people that visited them. And there is a lot of money to be made from this work. Medicaid would pay us $25 to load a wheelchair, another $25 to unload it plus $0.50 a mile. So if a trip was 10 miles, we made $55 from it and often I would take up to 4 people at once, that's $220 for 1 trip! And I would do 15 - 20 trips a day...

That would be helping people, providing jobs, and making a decent living for myself, the best kind of charity...