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[jippytum]

i have researched many charities in Thailand .I make a regular donation to one charity that met my criteria . I have  made a will and the charity will be the beneficiary on my demise .If interested please email.

[kensawadee]

On 6/11/2021 at 8:49 PM, Neeranam said:

Why would people outside Thailand support Thais and not their own kind?

 

 

 

Maybe I can ENLIGHTEN you.

I'm American, Our people have become to accustomed to being handed  'support' without them needing to work for it. THAT'S WHY.      They are lazy, physically and even to their brain functions being lazy too..... We have loads of opportunity here.... Look at how many illegals come here and do the hard work jobs because our own 'Bums' are too lazy to work those menial jobs.

I have worked hard my whole life, driving a GREYHOUND BUS for much of it,  and invested in real estate. Now I am comfortably retired and even have a decent surplus of money monthly. I have been sending $1,000 to $2,000 per month to dear ones in Thailand, since March 2021, and wish I could help more of them that I don't know about. I don't like 'proper charities', that pay first class flights and hotels and restaurants for their CEOs and family and give what's left to the needy. Soooooo, I see 100% of my donation going to the needy.....

My Thai wife of 29 years has worked as a cook at a Casino and is now 'disabled, and living with a surplus of money because of her hard work and wise investing, same as myself...    Now many of her Thai family has help they desperately need...

I know that everybody hasn't been rewarded for their hard work as us.... BUT.. Opportunity is here if you will work for it.   THERE IS A REASON, THAT Homeless folks are Home-less....... With no pity from me.... I actually know a FULL HISTORY of a couple homeless from friends families.

[kensawadee]

4 hours ago, jippytum said:

i have researched many charities in Thailand .I make a regular donation to one charity that met my criteria . I have  made a will and the charity will be the beneficiary on my demise .If interested please email.

But BE AWARE of charities whose founders live 'A GOOD LIFE' off your donations before helping the needy with the small amount left over.... I like to see 100% of my money go to the needy.  One time I read a survey on percentages that made it to the real cause --- very enlightening, and saddening to see so many of the final break-down amounts.... Even a few charities owned private jets to transport the founders and families, who also stayed in the best hotels too.. Plan GOOD and avoid waste..

[Airalee]

38 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

THERE IS A REASON, THAT Homeless folks are Home-less....... With no pity from me.

Mental illness is one of the top reasons for homelessness.  It’s a pity that you don’t pity them.

 

42 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

I have been sending $1,000 to $2,000 per month to dear ones in Thailand, since March 2021

Matthew 6:1-4

[bangon04]

Leaving aside that Thailand is not really a poor country, it is unlikely that much of any donation to any Thai charity will actually get through to those who really need it. Corruption is endemic to the country.

 

The appalling Tsunami charity scandals come to mind........many people learned a hard lesson then..... although the Thais did a good job getting themselves out of trouble back then

[ThaIrish Sean]

On 6/12/2021 at 2:30 PM, Neeranam said:

A wise man once told me if you tell people what you donate, it doesn't count.

In real life nobody knows what I do.

I've never met any of you in real life so it doesn't count ????

[faraday]

6 hours ago, kensawadee said:

THERE IS A REASON, THAT Homeless folks are Home-less.......

Yes, there are many reasons. 

 

Do you really think that people choose to become homeless?

 

I think there's a lot of poetic licence in your post; and fantasy.

 

 

[colinneil]

6 hours ago, kensawadee said:

THERE IS A REASON, THAT Homeless folks are Home-less....... With no pity from me..

You clearly have no idea regarding homeless people have you?

There are many reasons why people are home less, open your eyes, then maybe you will see. 

So you have no pity for the homeless, shame on you, just hope and pray it never happens to you.

[OneMoreFarang]

14 hours ago, millymoopoo said:

I once saw a very dirty bedraggled  overweight beggar (who appeared disabled) laying/begging in the street near Chiang mai south gate, when we returned later in the day we observed him get up, walk over to a shiny new motorcycle and ride off.

It's then we decided sustenance was better support than money.

Sometimes I see beggars in the fresh market. I ask them if they are hungry and if they like to eat the food from the stalls nearby. If they like that idea then I buy them the food.

[ColeBOzbourne]

 

18 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

On 6/12/2021 at 8:30 PM, Neeranam said:

A wise man once told me if you tell people what you donate, it doesn't count.

count for what? 

Count for having a done a good deed out of the kindness of your heart. Telling people about it amounts to bragging, so the donation wasn't given in order to help others. The donation was given to boost your own ego and make yourself look better in front of others. Virtue signaling and humble-bragging at its finest.

[faraday]

6 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

 

Count for having a done a good deed out of the kindness of your heart. Telling people about it amounts to bragging, so the donation wasn't given in order to help others. The donation was given to boost your own ego and make yourself look better in front of others. Virtue signaling and humble-bragging at its finest.

That depends on how you to tell people.

If one brags about it then yes, I agree.

 

Otherwise, not.

[1FinickyOne]

18 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

 

Count for having a done a good deed out of the kindness of your heart. Telling people about it amounts to bragging, so the donation wasn't given in order to help others. The donation was given to boost your own ego and make yourself look better in front of others. Virtue signaling and humble-bragging at its finest.

that must be why I did not feel comfortable responding to this 'baiting' post in the first place... which ends by assuming not many do make donations to local people... 

 

I do have a couple of friends who exchange 'ideas' on random giving... one fellow who bought bananas every day because he felt sorry for the vendor, but didn't like bananas so he gave them away... 2 good deeds, not one... 

[kensawadee]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

You clearly have no idea regarding homeless people have you?

There are many reasons why people are home less, open your eyes, then maybe you will see. 

So you have no pity for the homeless, shame on you, just hope and pray it never happens to you.

YOU, Collin, Don't know 'nothing about me so how can you say -- "You clearly have no idea regarding homeless people have you?"

I can only talk 'down to Idiocy.  

To answer your concern about Knowing about Homeless People:   I have 2 close friend families that have sons who are homeless... I knew both boys since they were in grade school. I watched them grow up and since their parents were busy making a living didn't pay attention to the 'company those boys kept' and they were eventually addicted to drugs......  Both cases their parents take them back several times hoping for the best and finally give up..  One boy was taken back for about a year, but was caught still using drugs and hadn't been helping around the house and was kicked out..... He went back to living under a bridge in Los Angeles, which he prefers to having any demands made upon him to help around the House/Yard, Etc.... Under the bridge he can just exist in his own 'Foggy World'... with no demands made...

Collin, You say --  "You clearly have no idea regarding homeless people have you?"   I live in San Bernardino, California... 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, about an hours drive..... WE HAVE SO MANY HOMELESS THAT YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.... WE HAVE BEGGARS AT MANY FREEWAY OFF RAMPS STANDING BESIDE THE ROAD AT EACH STOPLIGHT .... with hand written signs begging for donations...  I had a friend who gave one of these guys some work repairing automobiles.... One day he would show up  to work and the next day you wouldn't see him... The freeway off-ramp paid the same as working....

Where I have a couple side-by side properties and I live.   we have a cement walled flood control channel behind the properties with paved roads on each side and a chainlink fence seperating us.... we have Homeless camping that close to my home... Los Angeles is trying to help so many homeless with working peoples tax money... There is a park with a lake that homeless settled into in Los Angeles... The police chased a whole homeless encampment out of the park, and afterward cleaned the area... 3,000 pounds of trash had to be removed from the lake along with a couple tons of other surface trash....

I see them daily.... What do you know about these homeless???????    I ask in all sincerity.... since you were so quick to leave 'anther' SAD emojy (we did this once before, and I pretty much let it slide)

I do not live in Thailand.... I stay and support and love my country, the USA (And that upsets a few that I love my USA)..... Until the Pandemic I lived My life 50/50 in Thailand  for the past 45 years, And I love Thailand and Thailand, including my Thai Wife and a mia-noi (or few) in Thailand.      I will bet that i contribute more than you do to the Thai people in gereral...

And I will bet you, and sure to win, that I know what I talk about homeless.... I have had up to 8 rental houses over the past 50 years, I have had a couple hundred rental tenants during that time, and basically I have learned that if you rent to people with a long tern job (They are working folks - Not the lazy folks) you will have a long term tenant............. YOU can feel sorry for the homeless and have pity... all I can ask is please put your purse where your mouth is -- until you learn more about the world as it really is... 

Finally, I will add That I fully understand that there is always a couple/few percent... That are bonafied exceptions and worthy of pity, But the largest percent are looking for a 'free-ride' off of those few....

Sit back in your wheelchair, Collin, and re-read this a few times to be sure you have understood my sincere meaning....... And in the future go easy on the 'SAD' emojis....

CHEERS..... Thanks....... Have a nice day

[kensawadee]

4 hours ago, faraday said:

Yes, there are many reasons. 

 

Do you really think that people choose to become homeless?

 

I think there's a lot of poetic licence in your post; and fantasy.

 

 

NOT FANTASY.... My friend.... I live in a town in the USA that has so many homeless..... I see homeless daily..... (Just over my back fence)

To answer your question --- Do you really think that people choose to become homeless?

YES................    When they have a choice between working and being homeless... They choose homeless....... I see it daily where I live.... physically able bodied men begging money at street corners....

What is your personal knowledge of them?????

I have 2 close friend/families with sons that choose to be homeless... What do you really know on the topic???????

Read my post above to Collin for more info........

 

 

 

 

[faraday]

11 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

What is your personal knowledge of them????

 I was a part - time volunteer for a homeless charity.

 

I spoke with many homeless people, & heard how they became so.

 

There simply, is not enough support for them, to treat those with MH issues, or substance abuse & accommodation is scarce.

 

I have had real life experience of this problem.

 

Your view is very blinkered.

 

As for your comment:

36 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

And I love Thailand and Thailand, including my Thai Wife and a mia-noi (or few) in Thailand

 

"Wife & a mia noi"....!!!

 

Words fail me.

Edited June 15, 2021 by faraday
Spellin'

[Neeranam]

11 hours ago, kensawadee said:

THERE IS A REASON, THAT Homeless folks are Home-less....... With no pity from me.... I actually know a FULL HISTORY of a couple homeless from friends families.

Yes, there is a reason and you obviously don't know it. You come across as arrogant, ignorant, and offensive. 

 

You've been coming to thailand as a tourist for a long time, yet none of the Thai qualities, like compassion have rubbed off in you. 

 

Self righteous indignation is a strange thing, you've sat on your ass all day working as a bus driver and obviously feel bad about it so attack others who have only the option of a real job. The raises your low self-esteem,as does attacking homeless people.

 

You've never been homeless, so stop talking about it like you know. I have and came across people like you with no compassion. 

Thai people, on the other hand, were so supportive and every day I thank the person who took me off the street and into Samativej hospital, saving my life 20 years ago. I had a disease, alcoholism. 

Metal illness can happen to absolutely anyone, even well to do bus drivers. 

17 years ago, I started working volunteering in a drug and alcohol treatment centre to show my gratitude for being alive and hopefully can help others. I've seen wonderful results, and many are pitiful homeless people that you despise. 

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by Neeranam

[Neeranam]

4 minutes ago, faraday said:

Wife & a mia noi"...

I wonder if his wife was hurt by this. 

The Dalai Lama said, if you can't help people, don't hurt them. 

 

 

[faraday]

"Last visited 15 minutes ago"

 

 

[kensawadee]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I wonder if his wife was hurt by this. 

The Dalai Lama said, if you can't help people, don't hurt them. 

 

 

 The wife is number 4 and she is second Thai Wife..... She does not know about or hurt over the Mia noi of 29 years... Nor do any of them hurt over the few extra partners of mine... the Thai wife in the USA is a $millionaire and the Mia noi in Thailand is not far behind......

Now lets talk about what you have 'Hidden' In YOUR closet .... 555

Can you not think for yourself and have to quote Dalai Lama?

Your post and your SAD 

1 hour ago, faraday said:

 I was a part - time volunteer for a homeless charity.

 

I spoke with many homeless people, & heard how they became so.

 

There simply, is not enough support for them, to treat those with MH issues, or substance abuse & accommodation is scarce.

 

I have had real life experience of this problem.

 

Your view is very blinkered.

 

As for your comment:

 

"Wife & a mia noi"....!!!

 

Words fail me.

Why do words fail you???????  Are you not able to say what you mean? yet you expect somebody to trust what you say

You can see my contributions to Thailand 'far' out number yours and the average.... I suppose you have had just one wife and are the most dedicated husband to her... I am subsidizing many Thai households and keeping my relationship with my Thai wife (Number 4) at home of 29 years.... At 80 years old I have lived a full live and learned a bit....... Some of you like to think you know it all, but factually you don't qualify....

[kensawadee]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

"Last visited 15 minutes ago"

 

 

Why do you waste a post to just say this??????

[Neeranam]

18 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

The wife is number 4 and she is second Thai Wife..... She does not know about or hurt over the Mia noi of 29 years... Nor do any of them hurt over the few extra partners of mine...

Oh dear, you know nothing about women, which may be why you have had 4 wives. If you think that a woman doesn't feel hurt and inner pain and humiliation when her husband has a bit on the side, you are deluded. 

 

I highly doubt you are being honest. A millionaire would give more than $1000 a month to their relatives for the last few months. There are plenty of American idiots sending their hard earned money to Thailand, you are not alone there ???? 

[Neeranam]

21 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

You can see my contributions to Thailand 'far' out number yours and the average.... I suppose you have had just one wife and are the most dedicated husband to her...

Firstly, one can make contributions to Thailand other than sending money. 

Secondly, I have only had one wife(20 years) and have never been unfaithful and doubt ever will. Why on Earth get married if you are going to be dishonest and cheat? 

[Saltire]

I was involved with a Cambodian NGO for 5 years, I looked after volunteers and donations.

 

On the online donor sytems only 10% of donors donated anonymously, so the 90% deserved and got a 'thank you' email.

 

However as for volunteers there was a small percentage of what I called a 'badge' volunteer, doing it for acknowledgement from friends and family. Some would actually donate zero and negotiate their time actually helping, down from the standard 5 day week to a Wednesday afternoon.

 

Bragging is wrong, it's a bit like

 

Q: 'how do you know when someone has been vaccinated?

A: Cos they will fckng tell you.

 

Help where you can people it's rewarding without the need for anyone congratulating you.

 

[seancbk]

23 hours ago, Neeranam said:

To get Thai citizenship, I had to make charitable donations. I made to Rotary club. 

 

 

Is that the club where they rotate around a pole?  

[Meat Pie 47]

9 hours ago, kensawadee said:

 The wife is number 4 and she is second Thai Wife..... She does not know about or hurt over the Mia noi of 29 years... Nor do any of them hurt over the few extra partners of mine... the Thai wife in the USA is a $millionaire and the Mia noi in Thailand is not far behind......

Now lets talk about what you have 'Hidden' In YOUR closet .... 555

Can you not think for yourself and have to quote Dalai Lama?

Your post and your SAD 

Why do words fail you???????  Are you not able to say what you mean? yet you expect somebody to trust what you say

You can see my contributions to Thailand 'far' out number yours and the average.... I suppose you have had just one wife and are the most dedicated husband to her... I am subsidizing many Thai households and keeping my relationship with my Thai wife (Number 4) at home of 29 years.... At 80 years old I have lived a full live and learned a bit....... Some of you like to think you know it all, but factually you don't qualify....

well another one for the ignore list

[starky]

On 6/12/2021 at 10:07 PM, faraday said:

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You forgot the w before it I think lol

[Meat Pie 47]

1 minute ago, starky said:

You forgot the w before it I think lol

 I would reply you with a clap but having so many emojis not half of them work for me