Natral wrote: Getting my EOS Spectrum3 back from the shop. Woot!

sweet_P wrote:

Natral wrote: Getting my EOS Spectrum3 back from the shop. Woot!

At the risk of sounding really ignorant, what's that?

Natral wrote:

mikey wrote:

Friendly Llama wrote:

pookie_me_3 wrote:

Nick_K wrote:

pookie_me_3 wrote:

Friendly Llama wrote:

pookie_me_3 wrote:

Monolith wrote:

pookie_me_3 wrote: getting into the Internation service team

servicing what?

a team of 12 year year 13s go over to a island in the south pacific ie fiji, samoa, rarotonga... and repaint cass rooms, community buildings, build toilet blocks, all that kind of jazz, just helping out people less fortunate than ourselves

Ah, you do know that 'people less fortunate' still have the ability to wield a paintbrush, right?

yes but they generally do not have the money to buy that paintbrush let alone the paint, its called outreach and helping others get out of poverty

I don't mean to be rude (I atually do think it sounds like a good thing you are doing) but would it be much more effective and benifical to give them money to build amenities etc rather than fly over and it do it. Surely much much more could be done with the same resources.

for several reasons:
1) they dont neccesarily have the time and energy to do the things that we will be doing, and if they were to do it themselves the living standard would not chnage which we also want to increase
2) personally we do not get to see what is done with the resources we give them, so we do not get more motivated to do future things like what we are doing, and i personally will get to see a bit more of the effects of what i raise for the famine each year, i will also get more motivation to do this
3) also they will not get impacted emotionally and spiritually as well as in their physical living environment, which is probably just as important if not more important then all the work we will be doing on their land and buildings etc

so yeah there is a few of the reasons

1) You're saying it takes foreigners to intrude to better peoples quality of life? If they did it themselves it would be as good...

2) You'll slap on a new coat of brown. Get them to take a photo and send it, it'll last longer.

3)I'm sure they'd rather have a couple of hundred bucks that the chance to meet you guys

And stirring shit makes me go WOOT!

And why go and help those little foreign pricks when there are more than enough people here that are in desperate need for help?