Good news..

[user123]

I want to hug this man ...

[video=youtube;EPJAHxEssHA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJAHxEssHA[/video]

 

[SandyFloor]

I have to admit that's a bigger man than I am.

 

[user123]

And that's a great comment, Sandy. It's so easy to get cynical...

 

[Dan]

What a brilliant bloke he is. I was reading this late last night: BBC NEWS | UK | Academic pledges to give away £1m

And I couldn't help but think that this bloke gives away money to companies (charities) and he doesn't really know where the money is going. On the flip side, he needs to give the money to that bloke in the video, he WOULD use all of it directly to feed. Which is what is should all be about.

 

[Dan]

A more recent article on Toby Ord: BBC News - Toby Ord: Why I'm giving £1m to charity

 

[user123]

Just read it, Dan, that's pretty impressive. Howard and I adhere to the 10% policy, have done for years, and both have our own favourite causes, but 30%, I think we'd struggle big time, it's not that easy now. Actually, I do believe that money is a bit like a current, movement generates movement, if you give out, the same or more comes back to you..some people scoff, but I just trust that something will turn up if things are really tough and they have been often enough.

 

[Dan]

I've always said help close to home, and it'll soon spread. Give a bloke down the road a chance, and tell him when he's on his feet to help somebody else. I don't ike giving to charities that give money abroad. Africa can be corrupt, and comic relief money can fall into the wrong hands. Though I help my local charities quite a bit and my mum has an addiction to charity shops (both giving and buying from! - can't get her out of her local one a couple of street away from where she lives).

But that bloke in the vid is something else. Wouldn't you like to know it's blokes like him your cash is going to and not a bloke in a suit driving a merc and high-flying to parts of the world acting like a god and giving money to anybody who says they need a school just so he gets brownie points from his 'donators' and look good and get more cash the next year from them.

 

[user123]

Spot on, Dan.

 

[White Room]

That is some guy to give everything up like that..

Have a mate who supports a christian school in Kenya and travels out there a couple of times a years..no money just goods for the school