Consolidated NKF Thread
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Spectrum said:
Like the great Davinder Singh says, "'The man who earns $1,000 a month who donates $50... every month thinking that it is going to save lives, should they not know that that is the kind of money you earn?'
It is for this reason that full disclosure of the entire board's fees should be stated. You know, 2 out of 3 Singaporeans donate to the NKF in one way or another, shouldn't they deserve to know? Of course I think this ratio will soon change
http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/messages?msg=76543.3
xebay11 wrote:
"He is no worse than OSAMA using poor kidney patients as a human shield.... *CENSORED*"
LOL! For years, I've been telling my wife that I felt that the patients were like hostages while watching the charity show. Their faces and stories kept flashing on the screen to ask for help.. and I've no choice but to donate to a organisation that I disliked.
Till the directors and CEO being replaced, and the organisation being restructed for more transparency, I'll say "NO!" to NKF.
xebay11 wrote:
"He is no worse than OSAMA using poor kidney patients as a human shield.... *CENSORED*"
LOL! For years, I've been telling my wife that I felt that the patients were like hostages while watching the charity show. Their faces and stories kept flashing on the screen to ask for help.. and I've no choice but to donate to a organisation that I disliked.
Till the directors and CEO being replaced, and the organisation being restructed for more transparency, I'll say "NO!" to NKF.
Terence said:
Durai has been sueing people successfully. Morever the court case takes time. However, the most important reason has been reported in the ST cos he thought his case was based just on the first 6 paragraphs of the article concerning the gold tap and he panicked
An excerpt from the ST article
In his opening statement, Senior Counsel Davinder Singh accused Mr T.T. Durai of being 'fast and loose' with the numbers.
In court, he asked Mr Durai if he was aware that it was Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) case that NKF, under his management, has been less than transparent about its financial affairs.
Mr Durai said he was. But he disagreed with the lawyer's assertion that he had tried to block information from the public.
Mr Singh mentioned several occasions when Mr Durai had not played straight with the SPH defence lawyers, including the constantly changing positions the plaintiffs had taken in the case.
The lawyer said: 'You thought that you could control the way this action will be run by picking on certain meanings in your statement of claim.'
But when Mr Durai learnt of SPH's defence, he 'embarked on a strategy to prevent information coming out'.
The statement of claim had said the plaintiffs would refer to the entire article for the full meaning and innuendo of the first six paragraphs.
But Mr Durai panicked when he realised that the defence would also base its case on the article as a whole, said Mr Singh, and bring into issue matters concerning 'your air travel, the manner in which you have represented your finances, the salaries that senior staff including you get out of public donations'.
He then changed his position in his affidavit to say that the rest of the article was irrelevant
davsmiths said:
A lot of Western aid money (I'd say the bulk of it) actually goes back to the donating countries
This is one of the dirty not-so-secret secrets of so-called aid money.They return back to the donating countries in the form of expensive consultant fees, and paying their own suppliers.
Which is why the better aid organizations are saying that if Western governments are actually serious about giving aid money, they should give it to them to disburse.
Of course, the other part is that money that's channeled to governments in the various countries, often get, how do you say, creatively disbursed...... :bsmilie:
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i will never donate to a charity organize which pay their ceo $25k a month n 10 to 12 month of bonus.
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