Everywhere I go these days I hear of funding drying up, people giving less and services having to close. It is an endless sad tale of vital services suffering because donors are withdrawing their support and their money.
Only this week we heard about another essential rape crisis centre in Cape Town that has lost critical funding from the EU which means they will have to scale down all their services. The impact of the Euro-zone crisis goes far and wide and deep affecting people in the most unexpected of places. We can't fill in any of the gaps because we are experiencing some of the same pinches .... although amazingly most of our supporters are remaining true to us and continue to help, but the charitable sector both at home and abroad is suffering badly as philanthropic and organisational funding dries up.
And there is still such a lot of waste with money sloshing about the big charities in swanky buildings and well-paid staff ... in my bad moments I often wonder why we seem to want to look after big organisations or animal charities when there are millions of vulnerable children left unsupported.
But then, what do I know, I just run a charity trying to stop some of the worst abuses against small children in a country that doesn't seem to care.
So now, having been rude about whole countries and ticked off everybody else, did you see 'Secret Millionaire' on C4 [UK] last night? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-millionaire/4od This is a programme about UK millionaires who abandon their lives and go undercover to help people right at the other end of the money scale ... and last night it was the turn of our great supporter and Patron Dr Chai Patel who cares deeply about vulnerable people and children and who, in six years of incredible help and support for our work, never asks for any publicity or recognition.
If you didn't see it, then try to watch it sometime; it really affirms what good guys there are in the world despite the recession, and Chai is one of those who will help even more because there is a recession.
Only this week we heard about another essential rape crisis centre in Cape Town that has lost critical funding from the EU which means they will have to scale down all their services. The impact of the Euro-zone crisis goes far and wide and deep affecting people in the most unexpected of places. We can't fill in any of the gaps because we are experiencing some of the same pinches .... although amazingly most of our supporters are remaining true to us and continue to help, but the charitable sector both at home and abroad is suffering badly as philanthropic and organisational funding dries up.
And there is still such a lot of waste with money sloshing about the big charities in swanky buildings and well-paid staff ... in my bad moments I often wonder why we seem to want to look after big organisations or animal charities when there are millions of vulnerable children left unsupported.
But then, what do I know, I just run a charity trying to stop some of the worst abuses against small children in a country that doesn't seem to care.
So now, having been rude about whole countries and ticked off everybody else, did you see 'Secret Millionaire' on C4 [UK] last night? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-millionaire/4od This is a programme about UK millionaires who abandon their lives and go undercover to help people right at the other end of the money scale ... and last night it was the turn of our great supporter and Patron Dr Chai Patel who cares deeply about vulnerable people and children and who, in six years of incredible help and support for our work, never asks for any publicity or recognition.
If you didn't see it, then try to watch it sometime; it really affirms what good guys there are in the world despite the recession, and Chai is one of those who will help even more because there is a recession.
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