Kate -> RE: Help needed for young dancer (Jan. 27 2004 22:43:48)
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The thing with charity is that, there are many needy causes, for everyone you help, many more go without. Well you have to start somewhere and by helping Andrés, we help his family and in turn the community and Andrés works tirelessly for his community and tells me he will continue to put back in, teaching, supporting and helping the younger ones. quote:
Many poor people here in the UK, who need money for more important things than to send them on a dance course, when at the end of the day it will benefit him, and him alone, I was quite clear that this money not only helps Andrés go to school, it also puts food on the table for his family. Also with this training he will be able to get work and earn a living and every success story in Almanjáyar is a success for the whole community. For Andrés this is not a whim, a frivolity but what gives his whole life meaning. I am well aware of poverty in the UK, but there are jobs and child labour is not tolerated, there is income and child support and there are grants and loans to help children who have won places to study or train, especially if they are poor and gifted. quote:
I would never have kids unless I thought they would have a fighting chance in life, so even though those gypsy families are poor, they still continue to have many children, then they moan? That is your choice Dave but you cannot dictate what others do. Perhaps you also agree with the policy of sterilization of the Gypsy population as it is practised in Slovakia. It is my view that if poor people did not have children the world would be a poorer place and not a richer one and I for one would not be here. Kate
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