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BTW, the newsletter from the charity project was marked "for internal use only". If I were going to pay for that membership, I'd ask them what information in it was so secret.
The membership fee is higher than the sum my father and I tried to send to a boy with a palsy, congenital heart disease and other horrible health problems. I learned about him from a Russian site for parents: a young lady who wrote about him goes for vacations to a village in the Central Ukraine where the boy lives, and decided to help his parents to buy drugs and other necessary things for him.
When I was back to Kiev, my father gave some money he had got for an article on the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 (he said he could not spent them for his own needs and first wanted me just to give them to the church where we baptized Klavka), I added something and we made a transfer. We did not get any reply, although I didn't feel like I had to control that money after they had been sent.
A week ago I learn out (from the same site) that the boy had been operated for his heart disease (nobody wanted money, we were just asked "to pray for him"
, and finally I decided to ask about our money. To my greatest surprise, the girl says that others help too, so by now she didn't need that money, "we had bought all necessary things", now the money must "hang" somewhere inside our unpredictable banking system - the transfer was more like a "Western Union", not on the girls' bank account.
I am trying to convince the girl to claim for that money now, because it is really not a big sum, and why don't they buy some "unnecessary" things for a boy like some clothes, books or toys.
It seems that my work should make me numb to all those issues, but I still wonder how some people are able to collect money for a domain and so on, and so on to start their charity activity "in the nearest future", while the others think an extra toy will be a squandering of money.
The membership fee is higher than the sum my father and I tried to send to a boy with a palsy, congenital heart disease and other horrible health problems. I learned about him from a Russian site for parents: a young lady who wrote about him goes for vacations to a village in the Central Ukraine where the boy lives, and decided to help his parents to buy drugs and other necessary things for him.
When I was back to Kiev, my father gave some money he had got for an article on the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 (he said he could not spent them for his own needs and first wanted me just to give them to the church where we baptized Klavka), I added something and we made a transfer. We did not get any reply, although I didn't feel like I had to control that money after they had been sent.
A week ago I learn out (from the same site) that the boy had been operated for his heart disease (nobody wanted money, we were just asked "to pray for him"
, and finally I decided to ask about our money. To my greatest surprise, the girl says that others help too, so by now she didn't need that money, "we had bought all necessary things", now the money must "hang" somewhere inside our unpredictable banking system - the transfer was more like a "Western Union", not on the girls' bank account. I am trying to convince the girl to claim for that money now, because it is really not a big sum, and why don't they buy some "unnecessary" things for a boy like some clothes, books or toys.
It seems that my work should make me numb to all those issues, but I still wonder how some people are able to collect money for a domain and so on, and so on to start their charity activity "in the nearest future", while the others think an extra toy will be a squandering of money.