We live in a society where a person is more valued for what he or she has than by what that person can give to others. Nowadays it is more important to have material things, to buy high priced objects to make you a better person. Where has the sense of solidarity gone? You can have tons of things but are you really happy like that? Wouldn’t it make you feel better to give a piece of what you have to the ones who need it the most?
Last week, with great pain, I saw the program Contacto. The program told the story of fraud behind the Niño Agredido Corporation. Every month the institution received millions of pesos in donations to supposedly help children who live in extreme poverty. Of course, this money was never given to these poor little children; this money went directly to the pockets of shameless people that saw an easy way to profit.
Years of deception and fraud to kind hearted people finally ended after the investigation of the program Contacto. Why? Is everything allowed to earn easy money? Even to smash children’s dreams. What is going on with the people of this country? Do we only care about anyone else but ourselves?
This kind of shameless thing just makes people not trust anyone and not give their money out of good will to help those in need. On the other side the volunteers that give their time and effort to help these unprofitable institutions feel anger and deception because they cannot do anything to stop it.
The good deeds don’t catch anyone’s attention and what is even worse is that the bad things overshadow the goodness of what some people do. Where is our sense of solidarity? Once in a while everybody needs help from others and not only in the form of money. Ask yourself are you really happy with what you have? Wouldn’t it be better to give away something of what you have and maybe what you don’t really need. Do not stop believing there are still people of kind heart that don’t need to receive anything in return for what they eagerly give to the ones who need it the most.
Last week, with great pain, I saw the program Contacto. The program told the story of fraud behind the Niño Agredido Corporation. Every month the institution received millions of pesos in donations to supposedly help children who live in extreme poverty. Of course, this money was never given to these poor little children; this money went directly to the pockets of shameless people that saw an easy way to profit.
Years of deception and fraud to kind hearted people finally ended after the investigation of the program Contacto. Why? Is everything allowed to earn easy money? Even to smash children’s dreams. What is going on with the people of this country? Do we only care about anyone else but ourselves?
This kind of shameless thing just makes people not trust anyone and not give their money out of good will to help those in need. On the other side the volunteers that give their time and effort to help these unprofitable institutions feel anger and deception because they cannot do anything to stop it.
The good deeds don’t catch anyone’s attention and what is even worse is that the bad things overshadow the goodness of what some people do. Where is our sense of solidarity? Once in a while everybody needs help from others and not only in the form of money. Ask yourself are you really happy with what you have? Wouldn’t it be better to give away something of what you have and maybe what you don’t really need. Do not stop believing there are still people of kind heart that don’t need to receive anything in return for what they eagerly give to the ones who need it the most.
Claudia Castro
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