June 17, 2008 at 2:46 pm
SANACHARA (the Nepali word for news) is the title of the newsletter of the Ghurkha Welfare Trust. The newsletter records the death of Havildar Dhandhaeta who was a member of the Ghurkha Rifles and fought on the side of the British in the Second World War earning the Victoria Cross. The newsletter is well written [...]
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May 19, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Sight Savers have got it right; they don’t ask me to sign a new Gift Aid Declaration each time they write to me. Their records obviously know that I have already done so and their letter confirms this. Once again as is the case with many charities working in the African Continent I am impressed [...]
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May 8, 2008 at 3:58 pm
World Villages for Children provides a wonderful way of helping deprived children. I have supported this charity for a number of years and I do like their Christmas Cards but as I have mentioned before why do they reduce the value of my donations by sending me 12p every so often? Surely their records tell [...]
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May 1, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I have a new surname courtesy of the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation (they do have the address right) who have sent 18 chances of winning a prize including a grand prize of £20,000. I am interested that what I would consider to be a second prize, because the first is entitled grand prize, is [...]
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April 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm
African Children’s Fund are involved in an emergency appeal for Kenya, we all know why. Even though things seem to be settling down a little in that troubled country there are still many displaced children and in this appeal the letter describes the usual horrors of these situations. What most impresses me is the effectiveness [...]
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April 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Mission Direct is another charity working in the world’s most deprived areas. No one can deny that the work of the charity is necessary and to my knowledge it is also effective.
But like the rest of us they do make mistakes. Judging by the number of people who are ready to jump down the throats of [...]
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April 21, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The blogger who objected to being addressed as “Dear Friend” by a charity would perhaps become apoplectic on receving, as I have, a letter beginning “Dear Compassionate Friend”.
The correspondence from the Medical Mission International describes yet another land mine tragedy. Perhaps humanity will learn one day, though remaining optimistic under the deluge of charity appeals concerning [...]
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April 2, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I have received from Handicap International, a charity which co-founded the campaign to ban land mines, a handwritten envelope (with a Cambodian stamp to add to a collection) and a clear explanation of the charity’s purpose including a case study of the appalling injuries caused by land mines. All written on a flimsy, obviously inexpensive, [...]
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March 25, 2008 at 5:22 pm
One of the really positive things about charities is that they encourage altruism and offer opportunities for people to give something themselves to the cause which they support. I see it happening every day in the charity with which I am involved.
When this personal giving takes place in some of the most deprived and dangerous [...]
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March 25, 2008 at 5:18 pm
This time highlighting the problems in Sudan where diabolical things are daily perpetrated by our fellow humans (I sometimes ask the question is there a sub species) and children are orphaned, killed or die of a range of preventable diseases. It is impossible not to respond. Oh dear they sent a notepad which is not [...]
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