Over the past 3 weeks, students and staff at Christ the King College have filled over 100 shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s ‘Operation Child’ appeal, as well as making other donations to local good causes.
On top of the shoebox donation, Christ the King took an impressive donation of toys to the Isle of Wight Radio Christmas Toy Appeal – along with £160 – and also made a donation of food and toiletries, along with a £40 donation, to the Isle of Wight Foodbank.
A spokesperson for the school has said:
“We are humbled by the generosity our families have shown in a bid to help others in our community less fortunate than ourselves. We know these are difficult times for many families and these donations will help such a lot.
“Thank you to you all! Together we can make good things happen”.
A kindly gesture, but although against the ethos of Catholics, it would be beneficial to those having near starving children, not to have any more.
So contraception advise should be given with each charity food parcel, much as Cancer awareness needs to be given to the uneducated when buying cigarettes.
This will help ‘lessen’ the burden each year of others paying ever more to fund others choices.
I think ‘near starving children’ is the key phase here. Merry Christmas.
Whilst the ‘key phrase’ is indeed the ‘near starving’, the point I am making is by merely giving more food, without some form of education to those to ill informed to fully understand that if ‘one’ child is near starving without charity aid, then having two, three or more, will add to the burden each year, eventually, so much so, that the ‘needy’ will outnumber those in a position to help.
We have seen years of such aid in other countries and now, since many of those lands inhabitants have decided to move straight to the source of such aid, then surely it is not coincidence that the ‘need’ is now occurring in those very lands which used to be able to ‘help’ those in need in sunnier climes?
Taking in a stray cat, is an act of kindness as you can help such. Take in a thousand, and it is likely most wouldn’t be able to afford to feed, treat, or give the attention to so many, and the whole neighbourhood then suffers, not just the ‘kindly’ saviour of such.
And future ‘strays’ are not longer able or indeed have people ‘wanting’ to help them.
A delicate balance is kindness, help, logic and common sense.