What the heck is wrong with our world
Today I actually have the leisure to sit down and enjoyed some tv. This has been a first since a I started a facebook project, but we can talk about that later. On tonight’s news a very particular news bit caught my eye, the reporter was describing a new form of “problems” for not for profit organizations. Appearently, people are ’stealing’ from the clothing donation boxes, and the not for profit organizations are in the spot light stating how this type of theft is adding salt to their wounds, a wound created by lower monetary donations as a direct result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
Frankly, I don’t find myself seeing eye to eye with these ‘organizations’. To me, if your goal and charter states that you should help those who needs it, then does it really matter if the donation has been liquitated? If someone really needs the clothing in your donation box, can’t you not just let them have it? Must you really collect it, transport it, force those who needs it to line up and possibly pay for it? Or do you, the not for profit organizations, have a hidden agenda, where the donations are needed in their liquidated state instead?
(Everytime I see this type of news, a scene pops back into my mind, it was a donation rally for some flood years ago, a spokesperson publicly pleaded that if any one wants to donate, make it a money gram and nothing else. It had something to do with the fact that money is easier to carry or something ;))