A Personal appeal to all Infekted's - dig deep folks!... please...

[Old Vantaa Man]

When I lived in UK I got daily calls from charities. Everyone very heartbreaking. Help the blind, disabled school wants minivan, sponsored walk for handicapped, etc etc. Tin rattlers outside Tesco's, every street corner.
It's a fucking disgrace that people have to beg in UK for such things.

[Onkel Dunkel]

I´m very sorry for the situation your friends are in but from principle i only support trusted big organisations like Medecins Sans Frontiers, Amnesty International, International Red Cross, etc. because i belive that they are much better judges for deciding who is in most need of my money on this earth than i am. Maybe 1000£ can save one you love but it might save 100 children in Africa and since i don´t know any of them i will rather support 100 children than 1. This is why i don´t donate to individuals (except if it´s family or close personal friends). Sorry...

[theMusicMan]

Hey guys

No need for any apologies... just donate if you want to or don't if not... no worries. If you have other preferences for your money, then that's fine too. For me this is personal, and hence why I wrote to Drammy and asked permission to do this before I posted it on here.

As for begging - I don't think it is. It is a personal appeal that I choose to support, simple as that.

Also - as for the UK government supporting these type of appeals and providing funding for them, I am sure that in some indirect way they do. Having said that, I could care less if they do or not - I choose to myself.

CF Trust is a trusted organisation, and I'd be cvery areful about 'trusting' these larger organisations with deciding who should get your money. I know of one such 'trusted organisation' who invested £5,000,000 in a Computer System. Using your maths, that's 500,000 children - poor mentality there.

Also - the £1,000 isn't going to my friends son Mason in oerson, it is going to the CF Trust who do research and will help thousands of children, young people and whoever else who happens to be inflicted with this debilitating condition.

Bother yourselves if it matters to you, don't bother yourselves if it doesn't.

Have a good day.

[Old Vantaa Man]

Yes it's fucking begging. Thatcher's Britain mate.

[theMusicMan]

Still disagree with you OVM... it's not begging. I am not asking for money for a person, or an individual; I am asking for money to a cause.

Totally different.

[Old Vantaa Man]

John mate. It's disgraceful for anyone to have to ask for money for such a thing.

[Doc Jones]

ok, I think something is getting lost in translation.

I think what ovm is trying to say here is that what you are doing (looking for donations for a worthy cause) isn't what he considers to be begging or disgraceful, but rather the fact that you find yourself having to HAVE TO DO THAT is what he finds disgraceful. I believe what ovm is saying, is that in this day and age of abundance and wealth, sick people should be able to be cared for by their wealthy country's health care system and the fact that they aren't and now you find yourself in a position of having to have to ask for donations - that is what he finds appalling.

or . . . . I could be way off and he just thinks you are begging