12.21.06
Charity
Some people really are amazing.
This morning’s IT carries a story of a boy from Morocco with a cleft palate that extended right up to his eye. He got an operation for it in Temple Street hospital where Dr. Michael Earley performed it, having met the boy in Morocco where he does lots of free operations for children with cleft palates.
Pat Kenny interviewed a guy who gets computers thrown out by businesses, refurbishes them and sends them to African schools. He’s been there himself and says its amazing training for the school children.
Another guy was on who built two orphanages and a college in Sri Lanka, all funded by the people of Arklow who have donated over €1m. The orphanages are self-sufficient, growing their own food etc.
Puts us to shame…
eoin said,
December 21, 2006 at 5:11 pm
One of my favourite RTE shows this year was the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Challenge. If you didn’t catch it each programme followed a successful Irish Businessperson to various African countries as they attempted to set up sustainable businesses that would also benefit local communities. A brilliant idea and from the evidence of the shows some of them achieved tangible results. Of course It’s debatable to whether or not they would have done it if the cameras weren’t there or how long term their interest in do-gooding really is, but nevertheless it’s good to see that our native plutocrats aren’t a complete shower of bastards.