Green Day
March 23, 2006 at 8:53 pm | In Uncategorized |
Not the band, but ‘wild green africa Day’ . Maggie orgasnised this at out boy’s school – St Anne’s. The kids came to school in green mufti, bought cakes, had a raffle and all sorts of other exciting things to raise money for the sponsorship at Watu Wa Maana. They loved it, and raised well over £1000 which will keep the 7kids the school support going for nearly a year. That’s such good news. I filmed the day and interviewed some of the kids- it was really very moving. The simple understanding of the English kids – the Africans need food, we have money, money buys food- therefore, we give our money.
If only more adults kept that simple open attitude to giving and actually just *did* it the difference would be huge. Yesterday the UN published a report stating that many governments, including the UK, had simply failed to do anything that they had promised to in terms of debt relief and aid money after thje G8 last year.
In other words, governments make great statements about how much they will donate or what they will release – and then after the journalists have gone away and the general good vibes generated have fluttered down and blessed the politicians, they simply walk away and cynically fail to act. I always thought that was called lying? The worst offenders are the USA who also give a pathetic amount of aid in relation to their GDP. While many people manage to personally give 10% (although generally not wealthy people who have better things to do with their money - that is a statistical fact I’m afraid – the richer you get the less you give away) most Western governments get hot under the collar when considering upping the giving to 0.5%.
Is it therefore any wonder that some leaders of the developing world have a healthy disrespect for the west? The biggest shame is that those nations who promise much but do little are often perceived as being the ‘Christian’ nations. Not only is the lack of giving hurting those who need it, the hypocrisy is also tarnishing the image of Jesus in the eyes of those who need him most.
Still, back to the original purpose of this post- gren day was fab and you can stream the video we made from here.
If you want to contribute, go to http://www.Grassroots.org.uk.
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