It’s For Charity
There’s a new trend recently with charities. It usually runs along the lines of someone saying they’re gonna climb [insert foreign mammoth mountain range of choice here] and are going to raise all this money to help [insert tug-n-heartstrings-charity of your choice here]. Sounds good, right? WRONG!
Dig a little deeper and you’ll see that usually about half the money they raise goes to pay for their airfare and expenses to get there in the first place. And frankly, I think that’s a bit of a piss take. Basically, you’re asking people to pay for your holiday.
The same thing annoys me about these charities like Comic Relief. They waste all these thousands of pounds sending celebrities and camera crews over to third world countries to show us how bad the situation is. Firstly, I’m not an idiot, I can tell the random celeb du jour doesn’t give two craps about the charity and is just waiting for their pay cheque. Secondly, wouldn’t it make more sense to donate the money it cost to get that huge team out there, directly to the charity?
These people asking you to sponsor them to go wander the wilds of Africa or whatever have forgotten what charity’s all about. The main point of charity is that it’s not about you! Let’s face it, sure these people may be doing something physically exerting to get that sponsor money, but I’d like to bet they’re living it up on their downtime while they’re on the mission. Odds are, if you question them, the place they’re doing their sponsored climb just happens to be somewhere they’ve always wanted to go. Well, how convenient that they got to use the rouse of ‘doing it for a good cause’ to get them out there.
If these people truly gave a crap about saving the children/the whales/the homeless or whatever their charity of choice is, they’d do a sponsored walk around their local park, not get caught up in their phoney grand gestures when really all it serves to do is make their dream come true first and eventually filter a little money down to the charity.
But hey, if that’s the way things are going, I’d like to inform you all that I will be doing a highly intensive and strenuous sponsored walk around Milan. Along the way, I will be buying multiple pairs of shoes. All the proceeds from your kind donations will go to the Bangs Shoe Fund, a very worthy cause. You can rest assured that all the proceeds raised from this gruelling walk around one of the world’s most beautiful cities, will keep my feet in designer shoes hopefully until at least 2012, at which time, I will undertake another sponsored walk, around Paris.
I’m accepting donations in the form of cash, cheques, credit cards, hell, you can even just give me shoes so I don’t even have to do the walk. Remember, it’s all for charity!
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