$1 a day for charity...

Bes said:
Why? I am just trying to say that simply depriving yourself of a car and food isn't really living off a dollar a day and an insult to those who are with the parrallels you are drawing.

HOWEVER, I hope you raise a decent amount :)
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Its not an insult. You would have to be a mollycoddled cotton wool wrapped numpty to think this chap's intentions are anywhere near trying to insult these people.

Blimey, how misconstrued can you get it. He wants to give money to charity, has chosen his method, and you have the audacity to turn around and effectively tell him its an insult.

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I am sure the people who he is donating to would reject any money donated under these circumstances.
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Have you thought about supporting him and his decision to raise funds for a charity?
 
cheets64 said:
If it was for a better cause I would but giving money to a war torn country that has been fighting for nearly 20 years, throwing money at the problem obviously does not help.

Great for you doing it and good luck but I will be donation to children in need tonight.
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The aim is not to fix the problem, and you show an immature attitude in suggesting so. The aim is to HELP those in urgent need, those who without aid will quite literally die. The war will go on, the problems, political and economic, will continue, but our action in the short term determines how many live and how many die.

Why? I am just trying to say that simply depriving yourself of a car and food isn't really living off a dollar a day and an insult to those who are with the parrallels you are drawing.
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You've yet to explain why except draw a tenuous analogy. It is as close as I can get. Sure, I don't have cholera, I have a roof over my head and I live in a peaceful country, but there, too, are plenty of people on a dollar a day who have a roof over their head, don't at present have a disease and live in a peaceful country. It is not an insult, it is a mechanism to show how many people live of such a small amount. I do not think the Congolese will consider my actions offensive when they hopefully receive over £1000 to provide the refugees with money they urgently need.
 
So are you people trying to tell the OP not to do this and raise money for charity? Seems a bit ridiculous. In the end, he is giving something up to try and help out others, whether he is living off $1 a day plus electrical, water etc, or whether he simply goes and sleeps rough for 2 weeks and lives on $1 a day full stop. I fail to see why it matters what he is doing, as long as it raises awareness of the problem and raises something towards it. It's not as if he is taking the mick out of the people in the Congo by doing it.
 
Class 04 said:
I don't understand the criticism of the photo; it illustrates precisely what the problem is.
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Well the problem is that the first thought that came into my head when I saw the site is that those were the chaps you'd be giving the money to, and that's not really the association you want to make is it?
 
Thanks so much to maccy for his kind and generous donation.

And thanks very much to everyone else who has defended my little project, it is greatly appreciated.
 
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