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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Charities are unreliable. Its often on 1p in the pound that actually gets to the end user.

Look at it like this; If you saw a child laying starving in its mothers arms, would you take out your purse/wallet and give that mother what you could or would you walk on by because you need that money to buy chocolate and wine for tonight?

I believe most of us have enough humanity in us to give that mother money. Most of us would forfeit wine and chocolate to save someone’s life if we saw them dying in front of us. But why should it take a child dying in front of us to show humanity? Just about every mother in the world would agree that no mother deserves to watch helplessly as her starving child dies in her arms… NO mother.

It costs a family less in foreign aid than what the average family throws away in wasted food each week.

Chocolate and wine indeed! As you go on about the poor in this country you must be well aware that there are plenty here that could have better lives if the money is used for our own poor. We give enough - we are not the world’s keepers.