Flaperon – Member
I do not believe charity begins at home. We don’t appreciate just how privileged we are, and the “look after yourself” first brigade smacks of mind boggling selfishness and ignorance.
Nor, however, do I think it’s a good idea to throw money willy-nilly at Africa. For example, the woman presenting just announced that to produce, transport, and administer a diarrhoea vaccine to African children costs just £5. It should cost about 50p if delivered in sufficiently high volumes. It’s not like a new medicine which has vast development and testing costs behind it.
What this suggests is that there are multiple charities all working with big overheads and an arrogance that prevents them working together to reduce costs. This throws all of the Comic Relief charities into doubt. Why aren’t we teaching Africans to produce the vaccine themselves instead of making it here and shipping it over? Even English nurses are administering it out there, which could be done by any African nurse.
Too many African charities seem to exist as gap year providers.
And I found Peter Kay entirely unfunny and mildly offensive, which isn’t helping.
Don’t really care we have an NHS system virtually on its knees or some would say totally F@@@ed
who is going to wipe ur Butt !
You could always donate to the NHS ?
