These things make me laugh. Lifestyle experiences for little kiddies hidden under the premis of helping the poor. Learning life lessons etc.
What a load of bollox
Say 20 kids go on this trip at £3500 each. That’s £70,000. Its already been noted that either the kids parents or through fundraising (IE doing some meaningless gesture so parent then dips into their pockets anyhow).
You want to teach them a life lesson. Get them to do the fundraising so they get the ‘experiences’ then break it to them that you are transferring the money abroad to invest in a few local businesses (One being setting a guy up as a builder/decorator). £70,000 is probably enough to set up a dozen new business over there and they will last longer than a few weeks of kids pissing about.
If that doesn’t rest well, why not pay a group of homeless, out of work ex forces guys/gals to go over and work for a year. I bet they could achieve a lot more than a load of privalidged kids.
Don’t forget, they get the life experience of proper sacrifice when they realise they aren’t going on a ‘free’ holiday.