Red Nose Day Friday 13 March DFW Daily Chat

Little_Chicken

aaaw! lovin the footie squad...

GingerSte

Back in five.

scaredy_cat

ZTD wrote: »

Is it really luck if you did it yourself? Or just hard work?

My concern is that when we forget how things get done - i.e. that infrastructure is built by hairy-arrse builders and not by a bunch of hang-wringing entertainers - then it will stop getting done.

That would not be good. And yes, it can happen here - we have no "immunity" to deprivation.



In many instances it is the life they have made for themselves. Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Africa - now it is the basket-case of Africa. And there is simple cause and effect there.

I have to say that in Zimbabwe's case, Mugabe has made that situation, not the common people. He has ruined that country, given the farms to HIS people who have no experience of farming, so the farms have just been left to rack and ruin, causing the food shortage that the majority of the country is suffering, just because he didn't like white people.



*gets off soap box*

System

ZTD wrote: »

It's when they can't that all the problems start.

Thanks Z, I think thats ^^^^^ what I meant. I blame Mr Pounder, my Geogrpahy teacher

Bunnyinthelights

Red nose Day helps pay for education for the children so they can become 'hairy arsed builders' etc and re-build what was once a fertile land.

Personally, if I can help save a child from dying from malaria, or a young child in Telford from having to look after his disabled mother alone without support.

I do not profess to be a scientist, or an economist but one thing I am is a Mother. I cannot watch a child suffer, not matter what country they are or for whatever reason they ARE suffering. If I can help, or make a difference in a small way, I will.

bookseller1980

Good evening:D

ZTD

lennymfo wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus

I could have been mistaken........... Hey I am drinking

Also Jimmy Carter (yes - the peanut farmer) talked about "the elephant in the room". Something you can google for...

System

I just think whilst comic relief and everything else is an example of what compassion can do, but, 'WHAT CAN WE ACTUALLY DO' I fear not enough, we only scratch the surface and thats the problem, unless Africa has anything to offer the world nothing significant will be done. Sad I know and every child I have seen last night and tonight, makes me sad because I cannot imagine if Jack was in such a state that I nothing would be done about it and he would have to suffer. It is awful.

System

Bunnyinthelights wrote: »

Red nose Day helps pay for education for the children so they can become 'hairy arsed builders' etc and re-build what was once a fertile land.

Personally, if I can help save a child from dying from malaria, or a young child in Telford from having to look after his disabled mother alone without support.

I do not profess to be a scientist, or an economist but one thing I am is a Mother. I cannot watch a child suffer, not matter what country they are or for whatever reason they ARE suffering. If I can help, or make a difference in a small way, I will.

I completly agree with you Bunny, but these are just token offerings, a drop in the ocean that may in actual fact, be perpetuating the problem

sallyx

Bunnyinthelights wrote: »

Red nose Day helps pay for education for the children so they can become 'hairy arsed builders' etc and re-build what was once a fertile land.

Personally, if I can help save a child from dying from malaria, or a young child in Telford from having to look after his disabled mother alone without support.

I do not profess to be a scientist, or an economist but one thing I am is a Mother. I cannot watch a child suffer, not matter what country they are or for whatever reason they ARE suffering. If I can help, or make a difference in a small way, I will.

I totally agree...its not just about children in africa..when I see any child suffering it breaks my heart and makes me realise what I can give to my child, and to others