I have donated to find Madeleine fund and I’m happy for them to spend it as they see fit?

Question

Each of us has a responsibility to help each other. I would help people in need and if I were in their situation I would expect them to do the same thing for me. This is not only a moral duty but a civic one as well. This is my core value and this is who I am.

Your opinion?

Thanks

Answer 1

Same here, I have no problem helping them in any way. When I donate to a charity I do not dictate how they should spend the money.

Great question!

Answer 2

the sorrowful ingredient is that quite some individuals have been duped into donating to the fund interior the 1st place, questioning that it replaced right into a charity. The fund is not any such ingredient; it extremely is a private constrained business company under no criminal duty to reveal its earnings and expenditure to the generic public. considered one of its objectives is to assist Gerry and Kate McCann financially and that i come across this very nerve-racking pondering the McCanns are, relative to the traditional British family members, very rich. there is little info that the McCanns have made any financial sacrifices in any respect. Kate has given up her area-time GP activity to "paintings complete time on the marketing campaign", and little question she's being paid via the fund for doing this....for what sales, i ask your self? the quantity she might have earned as a GP, say £eighty,000 a 300 and sixty 5 days? if so this is not techniques-blowing that the fund isn't sparkling. Michael W, as commonplace, tries to preserve the indefensible. i ask your self how plenty funds, if something, he donated to the fund? If I had given any funds i might experience aggrieved that maximum of it have been frittered away on costs with no longer something to teach for it.

Answer 3

i think you are a very generous spirited person and it is a shame that there are not more like you around. the problem with society today is that everyone has a sense of responsibility to themselves and that is where it ends. the number of ppl i see passing charity tins by without putting even their coppers in it, the rubbish i see outside ppl's houses that they dont go and pick up, the dog owners who let their dogs do their business all over the place and then leave it for children to walk through on their way to school, etc etc i could go on and on. it makes me really mad, it's not problem, not my department sort of attitude bugs the crap out of me. i too will help someone if i can, maybe it leaves me open to manipulation and sometimes i have been taken advantage of in the past but rather that than not give a stuff about anyone else or anything. xx

see the thumbs down proves my point, someone who dont give a shite about others and their community they obviously think that caring for others is a waste of time. pillock

Answer 4

I also donated and am happy for the them to spend it on their mortgage if they are unable to do so because they are spending their time raising awareness and looking for their daughter.

They are damned if they go back to work by some people, and damned if because they didn't go back to work for so long they need help with their finances! What's their other option? Lose their childrens home. Is that what people want?

I congratulate them both in keeping this story visible because I truly believe that if Maddy is found (and let's all pray that she is) it will largely be due to the publicity created by her parents.

They will be villainised by many whatever they do.

Answer 5

no - you help anyone in need ?

or do you just help those that fit into your model of a worthwhile cause

do you give money to every tramp happy in the knowledge that they will 'spend it as they see fit' on booze and smack.

that is self righteous rubbish


on another note - IF, it turned out that the mccanns used the money - even though tehy could have used their own finances to pay the mortgage - wouldnt your opinion change?

i say this - not to spite the mccanns - but people find themselves in terrible circumstances all teh time and they have to go through financial difficulties without having a huge donation fund to dip into - so i personally think it is innappropriate behaviour, and if tehy genuinely hard up (lets consider their joint income of 100,000 plus here) then their personal finances should be available for public scrutiny


and if anyone says that is unfair - the fund was set up as an LTD business, if business finances and personal finances are mixed - both have to be disclosed to the authorities


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and to add - of course it is up to you to danete your money to your chosen charitable cause - but are you denying more worthy causes by doing so ? and before you write me off - i hace a DD to Marie Curie every month for the last 6 years - when you sae Gerry playing golf the same day - did you not wonder who was paying? i thought he was hard up ? listen - i dont want to deny the guy teh right to a normal life, but if it is being funded (especially non essential thing like golf course memberships) by public money donated to help find a girl - it leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth

so what else is the money being used for - public spokespeople and private detectives who have pretty much been told to ignore any impartiality because they are trying to prove the mccanns innocence ... and that is not me trying to say they are guilty - but it is hardly what i would describe as decent coppering

Answer 6

I have not donated to the fund for I have no idea what it is being used for. Every day other children vanish and it is not customary for the public to be asked to donate towards their disappearance. This disappearance is very high profile and the media have maintained daily contact with the family. I truly believe that if Madeleine is still alive she would have been spotted or at least those who abducted her would have returned her to her parents by now through an intermediary.
I have nothing against a rich benefactor offering a huge sum of money for her return.

Answer 7

Its a personal decision.

However, considering so much money has been raised I have heard nothing in the press, official or unofficial, about how this money is being used to search for Maddie. I know they used it for re-analysis of DNA but apart from that I do not see where the money is being used.

I am not having a go, I just feel I must be missing something.

I would have thought with that amount of money they could have launched various searches for her when all they seem to do is print off posters of her.

Answer 8

I help people on a regular basis. I volunteer time and work with a children's project that offers support to families finding it hard to cope. There may be drug or alcohol problems and whilst people are addressing those we help ensure the needs of the children are being met.

I donate money to the poppy appeal to support those in combat and to remember those that have lost their lives.

I donate to an Alzheimer's charity to help fund research as currently my Nana is a shadow of her former self having been victim to that horrible disease.

I have adopted an Oran-u-tan in Borneo to help support the ones that have lost their homes due to the destruction of their territory for palm oil, the so called 'Eco friendly' alternative to oil.

I do not see the need to support a couple financially who are in a situation of their own making and aren't exactly living in poverty anyway.

I am young, my partner and I work hard for what we have and strive to ensure our son is well cared for. We aren't poor but we aren't rolling in it either, therfore I choose carefully the causes I feel worthy. Two doctors who chose to neglect their children then start up a fund that bears no relevence to their missing child isn't a cause I feel is worthy of my money.

If donating ensured that poor little girl was safe of course I would but it won't and I amn't interested in funding the self preservation of two egotistical child neglectors.

The causes I do support are close to my heart.

Answer 9

I donated money also!
But, not to pay for their mortgage!
I donated to help find Madeleine!
I would help any one, but not two suspects in a murder trial!

Answer 10

I donated and I agree with you 100%

Answer 11

well said,if you want to impose conditions on the spending of the fund,dont donate,and as to those people who have,good for you.