Sunday, April 17, 2005
I swear I will not donate to the National Kidney Foundation. They are so fucking rich and commercialised, I'd rather spend my money on other charities who desperately and genuinely need help.
Compare the Ren Ci Charity show and the NFK one. In the former, the head of the hospital participates in the stunts to appeal to the public to donate funds to help his charity. People are touched by his sincerity and courage in facing danger to help the less fortunate under his care.
Look at the NKF show. Since when have we seen the top brass of NFK perform daredevil stunts? All they do is fork out and fish out a condominium or a luxury car in front of a - guess what - materialistic public and thus dangle the carrot: hey, you want to own one of these C's? Come, call 1900-blah-blah-blah-blah . . . and you could stand a chance to win one of these!
So, seeing the chance to pick up a free home or car, you call the hotline, not for the kidney patients, but your mind is running: "House/car . . . house/car . . . house/car . . ."
You can say, what's wrong with this? It's a win-win situation. The public is happy and excited about the prizes. They call in. The Foundation and its kidney patients benefit from the donations.
But one incident which my mother tells me greatly irks me and causes me to view the Foundation with wariness.
Her company is about to move premises. They have some old office chairs - aged but nevertheless in rather good condition. What I mean is that they have not lost a wheel here, or the cover is peeled in places. Instead of wasting them (they do not want to move it to the new premises) the company decides to donate the chairs to the NKF.
And what did the NKF say? Sorry, we only accept new equipment.
NEW. Off the shelf.
Hey, what the fuck is this? How can you afford to be so choosey? People have the heart to donate and help your charity - you tell people that you want NEW FURNITURE!? Isn't this going too far?
If charities can behave like this, I don't know why we should help them raise funds. How many school children are happily cheated into helping them to ask for donations so that they can win prizes for themselves while NKF gets richer by the dozen?
¶ 4/17/2005 09:48:00 pm Compare the Ren Ci Charity show and the NFK one. In the former, the head of the hospital participates in the stunts to appeal to the public to donate funds to help his charity. People are touched by his sincerity and courage in facing danger to help the less fortunate under his care.
Look at the NKF show. Since when have we seen the top brass of NFK perform daredevil stunts? All they do is fork out and fish out a condominium or a luxury car in front of a - guess what - materialistic public and thus dangle the carrot: hey, you want to own one of these C's? Come, call 1900-blah-blah-blah-blah . . . and you could stand a chance to win one of these!
So, seeing the chance to pick up a free home or car, you call the hotline, not for the kidney patients, but your mind is running: "House/car . . . house/car . . . house/car . . ."
You can say, what's wrong with this? It's a win-win situation. The public is happy and excited about the prizes. They call in. The Foundation and its kidney patients benefit from the donations.
But one incident which my mother tells me greatly irks me and causes me to view the Foundation with wariness.
Her company is about to move premises. They have some old office chairs - aged but nevertheless in rather good condition. What I mean is that they have not lost a wheel here, or the cover is peeled in places. Instead of wasting them (they do not want to move it to the new premises) the company decides to donate the chairs to the NKF.
And what did the NKF say? Sorry, we only accept new equipment.
NEW. Off the shelf.
Hey, what the fuck is this? How can you afford to be so choosey? People have the heart to donate and help your charity - you tell people that you want NEW FURNITURE!? Isn't this going too far?
If charities can behave like this, I don't know why we should help them raise funds. How many school children are happily cheated into helping them to ask for donations so that they can win prizes for themselves while NKF gets richer by the dozen?
