So, something that works well enough must be changed:
Child sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry racialised, paternalistic undertones and need to be transformed, the newly appointed co-chief executives of ActionAid UK said as they set out to “decolonise” the organisation’s work.
My word, eh? Paternalistic!
the goal of shifting narratives around aid from sympathy towards solidarity and partnership with global movements.
We must move from changing a life, one by one, to changing all of society in the Glorious Revolution! This also means no cash leakage out to actually aiding any individual at all. All casn be spent on the nomenklatura! Many meetings to be had!
ActionAid’s future is about solidarity, justice ……Better education, state welfare systems and healthcare should be the model – all responsibilities of a nation state.
Just think of the grift!
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I’m shocked, shocked!
Are we in machine-gunning territory here, or should we deploy Steve’s lions with flamethrowers?
Sharks with frickin lasers…
Whatever works. And, of course, is the most satisfying.
It’s evolutionary. You give the prettiest girls or the smartest boys a leg up. It’s why the panda isn’t going extinct, even though they are useless. We like how pandas look. If pandas weren’t cute looking, they’d have been gone decades ago.
I’ve thought for some time about general education and that most of it is a waste of time. A lot of poor kids don’t want to be there and will work flipping burgers and watching shit TV when they leave. But there was always patronage for talented poor kids. Pavarotti and Callas both had free lessons as children. The mediocre rich kids pay the bills.
Philip K Dick: The Golden Man 1954
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Man
I’ve thought for some time about general education and that most of it is a waste of time.
General education builds neural connections in the brain, encouraging the biological raw material to reach its full potential. It also transmits culture and furthers socialisation.
A lot of poor kids don’t want to be there…
Which is one reason why they are so likely to remain poor.
Bond and Ghazi’s vision for ActionAid’s future sees it as a feminist, anti-racist organisation that focuses more on fundraising through partnerships with civil society groups. One way that could work would be to encourage groups of friends or family members to form “sisterhoods” where they collectively raised money that would go towards women’s rights groups in a developing country.
They also aim to provide long-term funding to grassroots groups that give those on the ground more power over how they spend it, and are planning to launch a fund specifically for women’s rights groups that are under attack as a result of the global anti-rights movement.
“ActionAid’s future is about solidarity, justice and how we can really drive forward change,” said Bond. “The world is in a bad place and we have a really important role as a global federation in pushing back on the levels of injustice that are happening all over the world
All taxpayers associated funding to be removed. Both organisers and their supporters to be subject to increased surveillance by MI5 and earmarked for a ‘Socialist tax’ of 10% deducted from all assets.
The ‘enemy within’ cannot be allowed to prosper and basically these two individuals are boilerplate examples of treachery.
What global anti-rights movement?
Sounds like these throbbers want to take money away from poor African kids and deliver it to grifting arseholes like them instead.
Before they were appointed as cochairs there were three interim CEOs, earning a total of around £350k between them.
The ‘enemy within’ cannot be allowed to prosper
Ding! Ding! Winner.
Go after their power bases: there’s no reason for us to tolerate academia, charidees, and the public sector being captured by leftwing creeps. No reason to fund the BBC, or Channel 4.
What’s with this co-leader stuff? These lefties seem to like it but then they fight like rats in a sack, like Granpa and the dried fruit.
It reflects unseriousness. Anyone who has ever worked in any team knows that you need 1 person to resolve conflicts. I’ve worked in places that tried 2 leaders (in particular, management vs technical) and you always need 1 final say.
Ugh, yes, we tied ‘techical managers’ and ‘people managers’ and it was a nightmare – both sets immediately spent most of their working time fighting with each other and therefore not doing the actual work!
A not for profit I do some volunteering for tried it when their very good CEO retired. They appointed two women as joint CEO and as soon as you looked them and read their CVs it was obvious it wan’t going to work. It didm’t take long to fall apart either.
On average women can’t handle conflict or work in teams as well as men.
This is worth a listen or you can read the transcript. It starts off talking about the unaccountable class and moves on to why men are better at working in teams than women.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/094-lorenzo-warby-crushing-dissent-how-the-rise/id1717021615?i=1000726464106
The thing I notice about the feminisation of institutions is that they’re the ones that are already going redundant. This isn’t just public sector, either. The theory of The Last Psychiatrist, which seems to fit, is that there’s companies, institutions, charities that men just aren’t that interested in.
Men like achieving and they like earning money. They might do things that don’t make money, but they do things that are useful. Women care less about this, more about status.
Look at the Church of England. You’re earning jack shit and preaching to empty pews. Men can find something better to do with their time. Women like that other women know they’re a vicar.
The last time I hear of ‘co-CEOs’ the female one was big mad, whining that she wasn’t getting paid the same as her male co-CEO.
But, like, bitch, you *agreed* to work for that amount!
Entertainment value.
They are an anarcho-syndicalist commune and take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs–but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more–
Apparently it is a long-standing cultural tradition;)
“Bond and Ghazi’s vision for ActionAid’s future sees it as a feminist, anti-racist organisation”
As I said the other day about Oxfam, there ain’t enough of that fam now. Action Aid were set up in 1972 by businessman and philanthropist Cecil Jackson-Cole. Someone who saw a real problem and dedicated his time and money to solving it. Started it at the “blokes in sheds” level of things. 88 sponsors at the start of Action Aid.
Pivoting to word salad like Women’s Economic Justice is because it’s flailing around for something to do. Invaded by parasites feeding off an established host.
There might even be an observation here: blokes like doing useful stuff. Women like status. When a charity gets overrun by women, it’s probably a waste of fucking time (see: the stuff that Bill and Jeff do vs Melinda and McKenzie).
Yes, I actually did give ActionAid a bit of money every month, about 30 years ago, because they seemed relatively sensible. Yes, they had a paid bureaucracy, but most of the money seemed to go to sensible on-the-ground projects, mostly low-tech things that should make people’s lives better and seemed to be adapted to the local conditions (wind-powered water pumps, that sort of thing).
I stopped funding them ages ago because they seemed to be moving this way even then.
But in retrospect I’m not sure it was a good idea even back then. Giving people equipment to make their lives better, even if it’s low-tech, is no use if their cultural reaction to it is to just sit and watch it until it breaks down.
You’ve reminded me that I need to do some investigation into WaterAid. They were my charity of choice as they were actual plumbing engineers donating their time to go to “poor countries” and *teach* people how to be plumbing engineers and how to install and maintain basic water supply and sewage disposal systems.
As with all the engineers stripped out of things like National Grid and Railtrack, I fear it will have gone the way of all “good projects” and become a job provision programme for unemployable Tarquins and Jocastas, and will probably be trying to “decolonise” the idea of clean water.
Clean water and separation of wastes is the basis of civilisation, but that’s *SOOOOO* culturally imperialistic.
Its also not much point when the locals will steal everything that isn’t buried 10 feet underground to sell for scrap in a short order. Install a new well and pump, go back in a years time and the pump will be gone and well full of sewage.
Its high time we put a wall around Africa and let them get on with it. Let them kill each other and starve to death for all I care. In the time the Japanese and Koreans have moved from a rubble strewn waste ground to top tier global economies (with very little natural resources to help them) the Africans have gone backwards since colonial times despite abundant natural resources and huge amounts of Western aid. F*ck ’em, I’m done.
100%
The “charity” sector badly needs to be defunded.
Let’s start by removing their tax breaks.
There are genuine charities out there, doing their own little bits of good. What’s badly needed is a serious look at the definition of a charity.
Do the people in charge get paid? Not a charity.
Does it produce or promote materials that seek to influence public policy either in the UK or abroad? Not a charity.
Does it receive money from the taxpayer (excluding rebates of tax paid by itself or by its donors, e.g. gift aid, VAT rebates in some cases)? Not a charity.
Does it make grants to related organisations that fail any of the tests above? Not a charity.
That would fix at least 95% of the problem.
It’s like a fat, bloated tick gorging on your dog’s blood.
The entire sector (charities should never be a “sector”) is full of the kind of people who want to harm us whilst lining their own pockets and basking in their own, completely imaginary, moral superiority.
A fatwa on Jocasta. Let’s close down opportunities for professional leftwing grifters and their antisocial behaviours.
RNLI, for example. Their execs should be in jail.
Steve you are an ignorant twat.There are tens of thousands of small charities run by unpaid volunteers doing good work filling in the gaps left by the “welfare state” and its predecessors over the past couple of millennia.
That anything large enough to have an internal bureaucracy will attract grifters is regrettable but the existence of a few bad apples in a barrel does not justify throwing out several different barrels.
Steve you are an ignorant twat.
I’m quite a knowledgeable twat, actually.
There are tens of thousands of small charities run by unpaid volunteers doing good work filling in the gaps left by the “welfare state” and its predecessors over the past couple of millennia.
Ooh, I don’t care.
There’s now a million people employed by the charity “sector” in our country. It’s a giant cancer on the body of Great Britain. Just as our universities indoctrinate students into being white-hating, Palestine loving demented leftist turds, the charidee sector is full of people working for the ruination of our country.
We can’t afford to allow our enemies to control important institutions…
but the existence of a few bad apples in a barrel does not justify throwing out several different barrels.
Yes it does. Burn the barrel! Stop eating contaminated apples.
You have obviously learned to read so it must be that you have *chosen* not to read “different” and “unpaid volunteers”.
No you don’t care but hundreds of thousands of people do care and actually help people who deserve help (as distinct from the undeserving parasites that box-tickers cannot distinguish from them).
I don’t care that you called me a twat and had an emotional moment about “unpaid volunteers”. It was irrelevant to my point.
The existence of good people doesn’t mean we should tolerate the antics of bad people.
I’m as keen as you are on stopping charities from being a sinecure for the useless offspring of the well-connected. Taking a salary from a charity is — to my mind — the modern day equivalent of Orwell’s “stealing from the poor box”
But for every exec in Oxfam, there are hundreds, thousands of unpaid volunteers in small unsung local charities, Burkean Little Platoons, doing their little bits. People who run sports clubs for kids, Scout and Guide groups, the people who put up hanging baskets in the town centre to make it look a bit nicer, who keep the library running after the council have pulled its funding… they’re doing it because it’s something they feel should be done for the public good and they’re willing to put their own time and money into it.
If we are ever to rid ourselves of the fascist notion that everything should be done by the state, we need these people and their organisations.
But for every exec in Oxfam, there are hundreds, thousands of unpaid volunteers in small unsung local charities
You could compare it to flavours of ice cream.
Legitimate charitable activities are like vanilla ice cream, wholesome and delicious.
Fake charities such as Mermaids, the organisation promoting transing children, are like dogshit.
I have a simple ask:
STOP EATING DOGSHIT ICE CREAM.
Times like this I wish I could write to this organisation and point out they are never getting another penny from me until they kick this nonsense into touch.
But I can’t, because I was never stupid enough to give them my money in the first place!
It doesn’t hurt to write to them and say you have, but now won’t.
What is this thing, “solidarity”? What does it mean? What does it do?
It means they stay in 5* hotels when they go on field trips but only allow PR photos of themselves wandering around shanty towns surrounded by grubby kids or starving mothers holding emaciated babies.
If they’re saying that it would be better to handpick and support poor white kids in the UK I csn think of a few people who would agree with them, but I do find this surprising.
Better education, state welfare systems and healthcare should be the model – all responsibilities of a nation state.
Ok, fine by me, let’s leave it all to the Shitholia government, their people won’t need my individual support any more.
Frankly we should campaign aginst all this cultural imperialism. Adopt a child? adopt a donkey? its all imposing our western ideals on their lifestyles. If thier culture is to deny girls education, marry them off at 12, beat donkeys to death and so on, who are we westerners to impose our morality on them?
(sarcasm of course)
Isn’t providing ‘aid’ in any form already paternalistic? Its downright *colonial*.
“Child sponsorship schemes that allow donors to handpick children to support in poor countries can carry racialised, paternalistic undertones . . . “
Translation: No one’s picking the kids I would pick.
As soon as someone start arguing against allowing people to use their own intelligence and discriminating abilities, run away from them. It just means that they want to make the choices for you.
Child sponsorship schemes are an effective appeal to pity scheme. Appeals to solidarity, justice will raise no money.