Every year we have a national money collection for a specially chosen charity organisation. There's a TV show, Performing celebrities perform for free, other celebrities come to the studio to inspire the people to give, and telegrams from different companies and schools where it says just how much this particular company or school has raised are read and applauded, challeninging eachother, turns it into a bit of a competition type thing.
It's quite fun, as the beneficiaries from these collections are organisations like the Salvation Army, WWW so forth. People who do a great job for the enviroment or other people.
But sometimes this 'celebrities challenging each other on national TV' goes wrong... like it did three years ago, when one of the richest women in Norway, an early thirty something beautiful woman who's inherited her money (she's a business woman herself too) said on the live broadcast show:
"I have just donated 100 000 NOK (approx. £11 000) and I encourage everybody to do the same thing!"
A few people around the country choked on the cakes and coffee around the country at that presise moment I can promise you that
So what's the point of this story? Well, the donate button is placed in an excellent position, "and I just donated..." how much is nobodys business, and that's the point! You might feel 2 quids is so little that it wont matter, so better not... but it does! And it surtainly is no competition
Let's all help this site going and develop into the resource it can be. The visions are large and grandiose, and we will all benefit from it when it becomes a reality
Much of it is already in place, and many people have managed to rescue their sick Zebra, and even breeding them thanks to the aid recieved on the forum. So.. come on, lets help out a little
Ok, I'm off my soap box now
