Pakistan

[SupremeSpod]

Is it really a problem if emergency relief ends up helping them develop better local facilities?

How much will it cost?

When do we stop?

Do they want our help?

Are we going to attach strings?

Who will co-ordinate all this?

[Mich the Tester]

How much will it cost?

When do we stop?

Do they want our help?

1 no idea
2 don't know either
3 if you're starving, you've got no roof over your head and your water supply is infected with cholera, would you really care WHO comes to bring you some rice, a tent and a big tank of drinking water?

[Mich the Tester]

Are we going to attach strings?

Who will co-ordinate all this?

1 Yes; strings are useful for tying stuff down if it's likely to be swept away by water

2 Andyw

[Jog On]

I saw them [British Red Cross] at work at a local event the other day, helping hyperthermic old ladies, that sort of thing. Admirable stuff and just the tip of an iceburg of what they do. Presumably made up of all dedicated and well meaning volunteers too. If I had any charity money, they'd be my number one choice I think. In fact next time I pass one, I'll slip them a few quid.

When I've paid off all my silly credit cards I'll be donating about £150/month straight from the LTD - haven't decided on who will get what yet but I think I'll send them a decent slice.

[mudskipper]

Nobody suggested that charitable donations are not about personal choice. It's just noticeable that the generosity so often shown by people around the world towards victims of natural disasters hasn't had quite the same momentum this time around.

WHS. Certainly wasn't expecting individuals to justify their personal decision, but was interested to find out why people as a whole were less forthcoming this time.

[shaunbhoy]

3 if you're starving, you've got no roof over your head and your water supply is infected with cholera, would you really care WHO comes to bring you some rice, a tent and a big tank of drinking water?

WHS

The point is, we are not being asked to make things perfect, only to help where we can.
I'd sooner see some of my taxes spent preventing children dying from Cholera and malnutrition than on supplying a furnished flat to some tattooed little slapper on one of our countless sink estates. Some chavvy little strumpet with the morals of a vulture with no other skills than the ability to wantonly open her legs and get herself needlessly pregnant. Hanging is too good for 'em!!

[mudskipper]

How much will it cost?

When do we stop?

Do they want our help?

Are we going to attach strings?

Who will co-ordinate all this?

All valid questions. Did you ask them about aid for the tsunami, or the Haiti earthquake?

[MarillionFan]

How much are we supposed to donate?

How much is needed?

A lot of the villages were in a sh!t state before the floods, no schools, little option for education etc.

What are we doing? Providing basic relief or using this as an opportunity to bring them into the 21st century?

Just thought I'd ask.

I did see something where it said 'Denote £120 for a tent for one family'

My first thought was £120 for a freaking tent. Where are they buying them! Harrods!

[lilelvis2000]

How much are we supposed to donate?

How much is needed?

A lot of the villages were in a sh!t state before the floods, no schools, little option for education etc.

What are we doing? Providing basic relief or using this as an opportunity to bring them into the 21st century?

Just thought I'd ask.

How about half the money goes to you to help you into the 21st century?

Beats me how you knew what the villages were like before hand. 'course I suppose the entire country is like that in your head.

[MarillionFan]

How about half the money goes to you to help you into the 21st century?

Beats me how you knew what the villages were like before hand. 'course I suppose the entire country is like that in your head.

Thats because Spod is a Northener, part of the UK covered in coal mines & poverty where malnourished children are covered and soot, and the men have hands like shovels, drink cheap ale and regularly beat their wives in the squalor of their tenements.

You'd never get me making a generalization about a part of the world i've never been to!