[Doug]

I would appreciate the views of others on the following subject. I know we’ve had some discussion already on the subject of the Asian Earthquake and donating funds but I’m still struggling with my own conscience. When the tsunami struck East Asia I made a donation as soon as the lines to Dec opened, I give a fiver for Vincent House for the Harvest Festival collection last week and Last night I stuck a Ten Pound note in to a bottle in aid of Donna’s Dream House, a Hospice Charity for kid’s.

These actions where automatic without much thought of the money or my own needs, with the Pakistani and Indian Earthquake I haven’t given. It’s not that I don’t want to or can’t afford it, I can. I just struggle doing it, I don’t believe that may reluctance is racial, political or anything to do with the bombings earlier this year, I’m gutted when I see people on the news suffering but I wonder if the cash would ever get to them or if it would make a difference…….how do you feel on the subject?