malamute wrote:This is why I dont give money to huge charities like Oxfam. Most of them are bent.
I only give to local charities where I can actually see how my donation is used. I take bags of horse feed to a horse sanctuary and my OH takes bales of hay at Xmas. I also volunteered for 16 years with a charity for kids with special needs.
Trapper John wrote:malamute wrote:This is why I dont give money to huge charities like Oxfam. Most of them are bent.
I only give to local charities where I can actually see how my donation is used. I take bags of horse feed to a horse sanctuary and my OH takes bales of hay at Xmas. I also volunteered for 16 years with a charity for kids with special needs.
I'm with you, I don't contribute to big charitable organisations. There is just something very unwholesome about the begging adverts they toss about like confetti trying to make people feel guilty about not being a starving pauper with a limited lifespan, whilst raking in six figure salaries and paying on the ground aid workers a grand a week.
malamute wrote:Theres a whole lot more in the papers today about Oxfam. It seems they do not DBS check the volunteers in their shops and there have been many cases of staff assaulting young volunteers.
I can see this affecting Oxfam donations badly.
Rolluplostinspace wrote:Oxfam seems to be a vehicle for finding useful stuff for graduates to do.
Yes its done lots of good stuff but the child abuse claims in devastated areas is not new.
Guest wrote:'You could still smell the bodies in the air, but on a clear night you could look up at one of the few remaining buildings which hadn’t been torn down by the tsunami, see the twinkling of fairy lights and hear the clinking of bottles. Oxfam had made their office in this building, and on the roof they had set up a bar, where aid workers from all the other organisations would flock to drink the night away before, invariably, getting together with someone from another agency.'
Telegraph exposee from an aid worker, recounting in this instance the tsunami in indonesia 2004
These OXFAM workers head off on these 'missions' primarily on a jolly. Sick
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