According to Muslim tradition, people near you deserve your charity more. But here, the opposite seems to be true. Our "businessmen" are busy exploiting the consumers at home but when charity initiative such as Dubai Cares are announced, they pledge huge sums of money. Wouldn't it have been better that instead of sending huge amounts of money abroad, they spent a fraction of that here inside the country itself. Or at least reduced the prices of products or services they offered.
But, Corporate Social Resposibility perhaps teaches you to maximize your profits as much as you can & then to show that you do "care" for the less priviliaged member of the society, you spend pennies on social projects but you do make sure that you get enough coverage in the media. The result: you kill two birds with one stone.
Confused? Well, let me try to explain, although I myself don't really know what is going on here :-)
What do you call such a behavior? On one hand, you pay 100 million dirhams for Dubai Cares initiative, and on the other hand, you raise 90% of tuition fees at one of your schools & yet are shameless enough to come on radio to defend that decision.
Money worship at its best !!
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marketing strategies =\
bs you know, sometimes i kind of agree with it =\
ya3ny in kuwait mathalan, i'd rather they took my money and sent it to palestine or africa where they REALLY need the money, than have my money given to a poor kuwaiti man who spent all his money on a mercedes because he didnt want a toyota =\
i dont know if this is a phenomenon everywhere, bs thats the way it is in kuwait. fa i always make sure i give my money to people abraod because i know they will be used wisely =\
ya3ny in kuwait mathalan, i'd rather they took my money and sent it to palestine or africa where they REALLY need the money, than have my money given to a poor kuwaiti man who spent all his money on a mercedes because he didnt want a toyota =\ < i agree with her on this ..
bss shockingly it wasn't until 3 months back that i knew that there were actually poor people living in Dubai who can't afford to buy a refrigerator ! .. wala it broke my heart .. and i saw them with my own eyes !
and u remember Varky supposedly Donating millions, while what he actually did was give out those coupon books thingies to each student and obliging them to sell for at least 10 Dhs .. he then collected at that money from the students and gave it to Dubai cares in his name !!! ..
assalamu'alaykum.
a greet from indonesia, brother.
nice writing.
:-)
DG: You know, here in my place almost all the infrastructure projects that are supposed to be funded by local money gets to be built through dole-outs from foreign countries! Why? Lots of reasons. One, the local government pockets the money and so they say they dont have the budget to repair a single pothole in a road. Two,which frustrates me, is that the people like to solicit funds from outside sources, like GEM (Growth and Equity in Mindanao)which is US funded, USAID, AUSAID (Australia) and of course, the Islamic Development Bank. It's begging on a big scale and it disgusts me, especially when I see the "A Gift from USAID/GEM/AUSAID etc... banners announcing that a project as simple as a street has been built with help. We here rage against wealthy nations and yet we thrive on their money.
That should give our fortunate brothers something to think about before they give something to the less fortunate. Charity is nice, but surviving on it and becoming lazy in the process is something that destroys human dignity. It's better to give your dirhams to your less fortunate neighbors than to teach other people in faraway lands to become indolent or even corrupt.
this raises a few different points,
1. them making money and then donating money are two different things, they need to make a big enough profit margin to donate without it affecting the profits
2. by doing this the media coverage then helps them make more profit cos people think their money is going back to do good so "lets support this guy". therefore it becomes a vicious circle. i agree with above, it is a marketing strategy.
3. and even if your donating to foreign lands far away, be it thro Red Cresent or Red cross, they take a percentage themselves as living expenses for their volunteers to live comfortably..and then youve got government taxes of the country your donating too as well, plus wages for the people on the other side to distribute or work on donation projects, so in the end very little of the money actually goes to help them.
I dont know if that means its better to donate to those living close by...id say just as long as you dont do it thro an organization...
actually change "volunteers" to "employees"
I salute you
Add pride to that
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حقيقة الوضع هذا مؤلم بشكل لا يتصوره الكثير من الشعب..
من الفطرة أن يقوم الفرد بخدمة ومساعدة أهل البيت فالجيران ثم إذا فاض لديه أن يوزع للغير خارج الدولة..
لكن الوضع مختلف.. أو الوضع الدارج مختلف.. والسبب لأن مفهوم الصدقة لم تعد كالسابق.. بل أصبحت نوع من التسويق والتجارة..
هناك أناس لا يملكون قوت يوم والله قوت يوم ويعيشون في أرض عامرة بالخير..
ألف تعجب!!!
هناك من الوافدين الذين لا يستطيعون أن يدخلوا أبنائهم المدارس للكلفة العالية.. رغم أن التعليم الإبتدائي شيء أساسي وحق لكل طفل ويجب أن يوفر لكل طفل بغض النظر عن جنسيته..
ألف تعجب!!
من الأولى بأن يتمتع بخيرات لأرض التي يعيش بها.. من يسكن تلك الأرض ويعمرها.. أو من يشكر أما الإعلام ويقول إنتوا أهل الجود والكرم!!!
سأتوقف عن إضافة التعجبات ..
وعذرا إن خرجت عن لب الموضوع..
I totally agree with Coralbead couldn't have said it better myself:Charity is nice, but surviving on it and becoming lazy in the process is something that destroys human dignity.
Sigh, i agree. I was reading up on the cases of children dropping out of school and not being able to pay for their education and it just saddens me. Education is for everyone and the people in power need to take into account that not everyone can afford such a high standard of fees.
And although I don't disagree with sending money abroad either, it is hypocritical if the people in your own country are suffering because of certain policies.
What about the pittance he pays as salaries to the teachers 2300 - 2500 per month.
Thank you guys for sharing your thoughts here. What you guys wrote has not left anything for me to say. I do agree with what you said. Hope the current global economic crisis will help us become better human beings :-)
Sunny Varkey is a suited version of a THUG.
Education seems to be the biggest money making racket, and GEMS has the extortion act worked out to a pure science.
One of the very reasons why despite being in a GEMS school for her primary years, I took my daughter out of Cambridge High School. I refuse to advocate extortion.
The fact of the matter is, when big boys play they know where and when to use the WD 40.
i think there are so many in need in our countries than outside, i think it should be given locally.
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