[Margaret Pilkington]

Doug, maybe you have charity fatigue. There are so many charities out there begging for our money. I donate books and clothes to several of the charity shops.....I toss my loose change into collecting tins.....but like Lettie, I am not going to be intimidated into giving.....some of the pictures we see ARE heartbreaking.....and if you could be sure your donation would help those people then maybe, just maybe it would be worth while. The huge amounts of money that was donated after the Tsunami do not appear to have filtered through very well.....and we are now 10 months away from that disaster.....so where is the money? What is it doing? Is it languishing in some government departments account?