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Originally Posted by mobertol
We used to have exactly the same thing Margaret at junior school -it was called St. Joseph's penny.
These days I think that charity really is better kept close to home - where maybe you can see some of the effects in your local community and for local people. Too often all this money given for overseas and to large organisations just seems to disappear without any trace of improvement where it was meant to go.
There's often a feeling that it's just another kind of business.
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Our little books, in which you bought a kiddy, was called Sunny Smiles.
They never gave you enough darkies. They were good sellers. White kids with lazy eyes were harder to shift.
We also had the Junior Missionary Association. You collected donations from people weekly, and put the money in a church shaped box, which was opened once a year, and used to teach the little piccaninnies about Jesus, and to be good Methodists.
Praise the Lord.