SPONSORED Space Hop

[tiddles]

www.inverclydenow.com/today/9077-sponsored-space-hop

Another one. If you want to go on an adventure holiday, pay for it yourself. Don't pretend you're helping the poor benighted Africans. If she was really concerned about the plight of these people, why doesn't she join one of the big aid charities and offer her services. Mind you, there's not much need for space hopping wee lassies out there.

At the first smell of shite and the sight of a deadly creepy crawlie she'll be greetin' for her mammy.

I think it's time there was a major crackdown on the companies that thrive on this rubbish. It's a nice little earner. Why didn't little Shannon run a coffee morning or a jumble sale to raise funds directly for Ghana? No, too much like real work and no picture in the paper?

Banal garbage that shouldn't even make the pages of a web based news portal like IN.

[samfregreenock]

Perhaps they should hold a sponsored fuck-off........

[tiddles]

I'd give to that

[jimwatson]

Every little helps - giving two months of your time doing development work in Africa is a worthwhile project. Participants are asked to fundraise to offset the costs of getting them out there. My nephew went on a bike ride through Africa. He had to raise a few thousand to take part and the reason they need bikes is to get the medical personel to where they are needed. Infrastructure in the African sub-continent makes Inverclydes roads seem like an engineering wonder of the world! Therefore it is easier getting the medics to where they are needed and the use of powerful off road bikes was more than welcome.

I would also add that my nephew came back a changed person in his outlook on life. The dire poverty and extreme conditions opened his eyes and made him think about such matters as international development a bit more. I understand the arguements about cultural imperialism and only developing areas that the UK has a strategic interest in or if they have oil, but at an individual level it can be a transformational experience that we old cynical buggers might do well to acknowledge...

here endeth the lesson.

Sam - love the idea of a sponsored fuck off - get me a ticket for Dublin and I will do just that... ;D

[tiddles]

Dublin? Why there for God's sake?

[jimwatson]

Mar 19, 2013 17:05:32 GMT 1 tiddles said:

Dublin? Why there for God's sake?

PLenty of family over there - my mother was from Limerick (cue short poem) but moved to Dublin at a very early age. Still got loads of Aunties, Uncles and Cousins over there...and of course it is the home of Guinness... ;D ;D

[tiddles]

I used to quite like Dublin but last time I was there it was dreadful and as to the prices.....

[linda wallace]

in today's society and the way things are going in this country we are now a 3rd world country outselves.....there are still people sleeping in the streets in glasgow, people living hand to mouth, folks not being able to afford the proper food due to prices and bills going up and up ect ect.....
i used to give to charity but not now...charity stays at home with me....i am fed up being stopped in the town by this one and that one....we simply cant afford it anymore...