All I Want for Christmas…

18/12/2005 by No Comments




White Christmas in Pakistan

Originally uploaded by Annelogue.

I’m in danger of getting some serious whooping on Christmas Eve by my family. I’ve sent all the money I was going to use on Christmas presents to the Red Cross specifically supporting the relief teams work in Pakistan. I’m really curious to see my family’s reaction. I mean, when I ask them what they want for Christmas, no-one in my family can tell me what they want, because they have absolutely everything they need. Therefore I don’t see why I should spend hours bumping into other people in overcrowded shops in order to get them small useless presents that my family don’t really want. Last year we spent 3 hours opening presents! Afterwards we were right out exhausted. There were too many presents. There will be 12 less presents this year. Hopefully, the money I sent will be spent wisely. Red Cross is a very trustworthy organisation, but I have heard so many horrible stories in general about how aid money is badly spent, that I’m a little suspicious to the whole thing. What else can I do, but hope that the money I sent will be well spent. I hope that more eyes on the situation will help to prevent the money being misused. I admit that I’ve been suffering from serious compassion fatigue after all the natural disasters that have happened this year, but now when I see the amount of people going completely bananas in the shops before Christmas, it just makes me feel like I have to try and do something. So I did what little I can do.

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