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25th anniversary of Comic relief
sueh21
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So 25 years down the line,has it made a difference? Have you come across any of it's projects? Is it money down the drain as far as Africa is concerned? Just wondered what people thought.
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Until this happens, they will keep on breeding & expect the money to keep rolling in.
She assists a team in obtaining information from young children (usually aged between 5 and 14), who were rescued from various British locations of child trafficking and/or exploitation.
These children couldn't speak English and usually are too traumatised for an ordinary interpreter to deal with. This is where my friend steps in as she's a qualified clinical psychologist as well as being a qualified specialist interpreter.
The contraception issue is intrinsically linked to poverty. The reason why they have so many children is for the workload/labour issue plus to be taken care of in old age.
Comic Relief stands as one of the few saving graces of what humanity can do....the face of compassion is a redeeming factor in our otherwise corrupt society.
I have no idea what projects are supported as they give so little info after the millions are donated.
I have just checked and no surprise London has the majority of the UK projects.
http://www.comicrelief.com/how-we-help
If the only way you're going to get looked after in old age is by your children, and you don't know how many of your children are going to survive to adulthood (and be able to care for you) due to a combination of disease and lack of medical facilities resulting in a high child death rate, I'd like to know after how many children darkjedimaster would start to use contraception and stop having children in the expectation that at least one them will survive long enough to look after him?
If you had actually clicked on London insrtead of the total you might find that the HQ's of many projects / grants may be there but they are not exclusive to London many are National such as MIND , Alcohol Concern, Save the Children, Barnardos, Alzhemiers Society, The Boxing Academy, Cricket for Chnage and so on. There are London based projetcs but the majority do work around the UK and overseas.
Maybe they could replace them all with traceystape when she gets sent on an unpaid work placement on the Work Programme.
And in those 2011/2012 accounts they raised £89 million and they gave away £86 million, not bad to my mind .
Where in the link did you get that from, hovering over the map?
Just what I did.
Apart from those few many are London based, i've just checked the list.
Add up the non London ones and the total is far higher so it hasn't the majority.