Hi friends,
I went to a
charity concert in which my lovely young colleague was participating as one of
the lead singers. It took place in a little church, St Mary Magdalene in Leamington
Spa last night.
She was absolutely
gorgeous and fabulously talented. I thoroughly enjoyed her performance.
This is her
and her equally talented lovely fiancé.
The concert
had two parts. Some beautiful arias and the famous classic songs were chosen
for the first part, followed by the interval, then the second part was simply
good fun as they picked up songs everyone could recognise such as Memory from
Cats and Don’t Cry for Me Argentina from Evita
It made me
happy when I saw this beautiful couple was performing with mutual respect,
trust and off course with love. What a beautiful couple and such amazing
voices!!
I enjoyed myself
and so did everyone in the church. I trust they raised good money for the
charity called Cord. Cord is the charity group focusing on people in
unfortunate regions of Africa and helping the people, especially, where
conflicts are. For example, they send solar cookers to the area and provide a
shelter for women and children to rescue them from the nasty criminal conducts which
I would rather not state directly but you can imagine how they are treated in conflicts
and wars.
My acquaintance
once stated rather cynically that she does not like donating money for any
charities, as she thinks they just disappear for the admin cost or wages for
the people who are involved in the organisations, before the money is used for
the good cause. She thinks charities are for hypocrites.
What a sad
woman! Good job I have no communication with her any more.
I am a
hypocrite for sure. However, with due respect, I happen to know nothing comes
free. To run any organisations, no matter what they are, private business,
public sectors or the third sectors, we need resources and money is one of
them.
I wasn’t
born yesterday and I, too, understand that the money raised is reduced at
certain extent before it reaches the intended cause, but not all of them.
If £100 can
support good meal for people who need badly and if it costs the organisation
another £900 to achieve, what do you call this? Inefficiency? I don’t think so.
We never know what troubles they need to take to reach them.
I am soooo
not keen on people who comment knowingly on the things they have no true
understanding. If they think I am a hypocrite, what are they?
Only one
thing I am 100% sure is, the concert was fantastic and the audience was truly generous
and the organisers are selfless noble people. I had great time with them.
Thanks CO for
the magical time and God bless you and your fiancé.
