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On August 17 2007 03:33 b97531 wrote: "World Vision believes witnessing from Christ is a fundamental part of their relief work. The organization believes that God, in the person of Jesus, offers hope of renewal, restoration, and reconciliation. World Vision seeks to express this message through "life, deed, word, and sign". All of its US staff are required to sign a statement affirming their belief in Jesus Christ and background checks are often made with a candidate's pastor or priest."

I think that we shouldn't donate as many kids as we can this month cause it's the beginning of the site and everybody is donating and people are more generous now but next month I think we won't be able to gather that much and we'd have to drop sponsorship. IMO a steadt sponsorship is better so w should sponsor like 10 kids this month and always leave some monies left for the next month just in case.

Oh and Saki is ultra baller. Congrats

Oh and I just read the part about worldvision being christian fanatics so I'd be also in favour of going for some other site if it's possible.

KingKory please write to sos-usa and ask if its better to sponsor say 3-4-5 children for a year or many more for just one month, I would hope we would settle for less children for a longer period, we also might get to know a little about the kids we are helping that way.

If we do this I will help you with writing to the kids, and put letters/updates on your site, and help you making the site look better if you want it

And Byrnesam or someone else who knows photoshop, please make a banner for KingKory's site

^ Hey everyone.

Just woke up. I'm going to enter in today's donations, then head to work. I'll read over everyone's thoughts, and reply here in a couple hours.

$62 already this morning!

Well, I made a thread on 2p2 (Other Other Topics forum)...I imagine I'm going to get flamed pretty good though :/

nice donation saki!

On August 17 2007 07:45 nicksson wrote: nice donation saki!

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I'll put some money on my stars account and donate.

On August 17 2007 07:45 nicksson wrote: nice donation saki!

2p2 thread got locked

why?!

Sorry for not updating sooner; I've had a morning full of meetings.

I'll try to address everyone's concerns here.

On August 17 2007 04:12 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On August 17 2007 03:33 b97531 wrote: "World Vision believes witnessing from Christ is a fundamental part of their relief work. The organization believes that God, in the person of Jesus, offers hope of renewal, restoration, and reconciliation. World Vision seeks to express this message through "life, deed, word, and sign". All of its US staff are required to sign a statement affirming their belief in Jesus Christ and background checks are often made with a candidate's pastor or priest."

Yes, I am also wary of donating money to an organization like this. However, if a kid who was born with zero hope grows up to be a pastor, or some sort of church teacher instead of starving to death, or joining some street gang, I think I'm okay with that.

But I'll research the site Zorglub posted. I'll be honest with you, though, I have extreme doubts in donating money to an organization I've never heard of before.

If we are going to look away from World Vision, it would need to be a very accredited charity, that comes highly recommended. At least with these guys, you know the kids will be fed/clothed...even if they are made to read the bible.

On August 17 2007 06:04 SneakrFreakr wrote: I think that we shouldn't donate as many kids as we can this month cause it's the beginning of the site and everybody is donating and people are more generous now but next month I think we won't be able to gather that much and we'd have to drop sponsorship. IMO a steadt sponsorship is better so w should sponsor like 10 kids this month and always leave some monies left for the next month just in case.

Yes, I agree here for sure.

We still have a couple weeks here to come up with a solid decision for the donations, but rest assured that I will not be spending the entire month's donations on sponsoring a small army of kids, only to drop them next month when we get 1/3 the donations.

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come on 2+2 wtf

The only two questionable things I have found with the SOS site is that its only the UK site which actually pays 100% for the kids, the US site takes 10% in administration.

The other thing which really isnt that questionable in my ears is that the money doesnt exactly go to "the" kid but it goes to a village made for children where a number of "mamas" takes care of ten kids each and they provide everything they need for the money including food, education, healthcare etc. You will however get a certain kid assigned to you.

If you donate money other than the regular 28$ they will be set aside for the specific kid though and they will have it once they leave the village when they are grown up.

And btw. its a very reputable site, I have heard about it many times and it has branches around the world, even here in Denmark. And it has no religious fanatics or agendas.

Wow, a lot of donations so far.
The current method you are going with, where you sponsor as many kids as possible, is good but I have to agree with Floofy. Nothing worst than danging money in front of kids for a month, then cutting it off.
Why don't you take your monthly donations and set up a group of kids (dunno how many, its dependant on amount of donations) up for 4-6 months.
It'd still technically be a month to month thing, but these kids would have the gauranteed funds for 4-6 months.

eg. You get 1000$ in donations.
Its 35$ for 1 child per month.
35 * 6 = 210$ per child for 6 months.
1000 / 210 = 4.7ish.
Thus, you do a month to month sponsorship of 4 kids for 6 months.
Next month you do the same thing but for a new batch of kids.
Setting them up for 6 months (on a month to month basis) would be great.
Then when the 6th month comes to an end, you can renew it with new sponsorship using the months donations.

whatever, lets just donate to kingkorys site?

^ Yeah, this is the main point

I am all for opening discussion for the allocation of the donations, but the whole purpose is for players to not have to worry about that. I'd rather not fill this thread with worries over the final destination of the donations.

For those of you who are generally concerned about how the donations are being spent (and a lot of you here had some good ideas), I made a tiny forum on the website to talk about such things. In the "Charity Discussion" forum, feel free to post any thoughts about how you think the money should be spent. You'll also find my current plan for the donations.

On August 17 2007 15:39 nicksson wrote: whatever, lets just donate to kingkorys site!!

It wouldnt be a good idea to sponsor as many childs as you can right now, because you might not get the same amount donated every month.

I think being consistent every month would be the best. Set a realistic number amount of children for example 5. So the goal would be to come up with 175 every month, which is a realistic amount. if after a couple months you see that way more than 175 is flowing every month you could calculate how many more children could be added

for the rest of the money, a percent should be saved up in case that next month you need it, the rest you should go as a one time donation.

Just donated -_- I'll sleep well tonight.

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When we had the donations debate here, the thread was bumped too and the actual donors could debate, I doubt people are gonna register at a new forum only to debate this.

Moving the debate only makes this thread die and donations dissapear since this is the only advertising you got by now