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Old 07-14-10 | 11:45 PM
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Ok so I get the whole donations thing, but how does this man make a living if he literally tosses everything in a shipping container bound for Nigeria (or wherever they go). If you look at many NGO's they charities at heart but corporations in practice. Many of them are, maybe unintentionally, deceiving the benevolent people who donate and keep them in existence. The executives of large NGOs make a poo ton of money as their organization may be helping to save the world, but they also enjoy the compensation they get for doing so. I don't see how, if he were to take a bike here and there, sell it to pay for the shop's rent, his dinner, etc., that would be so awful. Unless he's sitting on piles of cash, the man needs to make some money too.

This is going to sound horrible but the irony of an NGO's and charities etc., is that in order for the people who work for them to earn a wage and for these organizations to exist, someone has to be suffering. Think about it, the reason they were created is to help people, but the competition amongst NGO's to get better grants and receive more donations, greater exposure, and inherently better wages for their employees; is to prove that your cause is more important and those receiving your donations are suffering more than another group of people.

Random fact: The NGO sector is the eighth largest economy in the world which is worth approximately $1 trillion/year with 19 million PAID employees
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