Sorcha Nic Mhathúna, of Oxfam, writes:
Best friends Grace and Nina from Cabra were moved to help after hearing about the challenges faced by the Syrian relatives of a family friend and after watching coverage of the crisis on the news.
They held a yard sale selling favourite toys and rice crispie buns and gave €32.41 to Oxfam Ireland’s Syria crisis appeal – and wrote a letter to accompany their donation:
Dear Oxfam,
I have done a yard-sale to raise funds for Syrian people who are refugees.
It is not nice for anyone to live in tents in cold. I just don’t agree with it.
From Grace (10) and Nina (9),
Cabra, Dublin 7.Oxfam Ireland visited the girls at Grace’s home to thank them and to make a video, above, about the letter.
Mmf.
Previously: From One 11-Year-Old
liberal hippie do-gooder nonsense
This is solely for the benefit of their smug parents.
What did your parents do you for? It certainly wasn’t for boasting rights.
I used to do stuff like this as a kid. That said I kept the profits for important things like sweeties. My sister, by the age of 12, however had raised money for Dog’s Trust and the Simon Community. Some people just have a social conscience.
That’s how it begins. I bet Bertie Ahern was just like you once
Bertie is my uncle
We’re so sorry Uncle Albert
So is he.
some people aren’t dragged up in a bubble
some people weren’t draged up in a bubble
Short and to the point, good on them.
Indeed, I have issues with Oxfam but more power to the girls – well done!
No Thanks, brainwashing those kids with Marxist nonsense … Oxfam open up the doors of your massive property portfolio to refugees yeah?
Wow, that escalated quickly…
Look, nobody distrusts BDS-obsessed Oxfam more than I do, but these kids aren’t to know, are they? They’ll get their heads filled with sufficient Marxist nonsense as they get older anyway and will develop sufficient critical faculties at that point.
So charity is Marxism? Do you just hate to see money moving around out of the greedy greasy palms of the usury merchants?
@ Lord: I was responding to Human above. Charity is usually highly effective at alleviating misery, while the real word application of Marxism has created misery by the ganseyload.
for a second I thought this was about the people living and dying in the streets of Dublin, pheew, dodged that embarrassment.
Would be nice to see more of this for the people who are sleeping in doorways a few bus stops away in the centre of Dublin.
There seems to be a blindness to our own internally displaced economic refugees.
Like clockwork!
Do you not agree that the people dying on our own streets are being largely ignored by us?
Politically yes, but not by everyone. There are a lot of people who donate to both causes. Shrieking about the homeless in Ireland on a thread about refugees does nothing for either cause and only makes me wonder what the shriekees do for charity other than give out about kids doing something that is nice.
Well said, Dόn Pídgéόní!
So how’s your charity drive for the homeless going, Lordblessus?
I give an average of €5000 of my own money to a range of Irish charities ever year, usually in the form of donations to individual educational causes.
I also give my time to community clean ups, soup runs, walk-in centres.
A range of charities? So you give to more than one cause?
Yes. A range of IRISH charities.
So you want refugees dead? You wish a horrible death on them, is that it? Grand. I’ll put you down for “Death to Refugees”.
Sorry now if that’s a bit blunt but it’s my first time using that special d*ckhead logic you have there and I’m not sure I’ve got it right. No, no, I have, I have, that’s how it works alright.
This is great, who’s next?
The dog
They should have given this money to Irish kids
How much have you given, time or money-wise, to Irish charities for kids?
Like Clockwork in swings Dόn Pídgéόní pushing his mad lunatic left agenda, shouting down the majority view that we should be looking after the people in need at home first.
Just to let you know, I’m not replying to this nonsense. Thanks anyway.
the hippies and SJWs on this thing are like a broken record – an echo chamber of plaintive lament all trying to outdo each other on the outrage-ometer
Don is one example but that Clampers John buffoon is the worst, on commenting here every five seconds, literally blowing out an endless vapid contrail of assbanditry
Don, in truth, is a very nice lady of the female gender.
I wish to second this.
“I’m not commenting on this thing”
– take your own advice Donna
AH Dog, and I thought we had made friends and you go and spoil it all by making personal attacks rather than addressing the point.
And Dog, if you know who everyone is, you must be regular on here too, but not prepared to use your regular name at all? Bore off mate.
oh you’re ok Donna, I wasn’t actually attacking you even if you are a silly little gimp
Great, another boring big man on BS.
ohhhh poor Dόn Pídgéόní does like being called names????? Yet she is the first one to run around called people racists and stupid whenever it suits her agenda… Let the personal insults fly girl.
Man get a grip. This isn’t 5th class.
She STARTED it!
You suck at being cool Donna
As soon as someone uses the term SJW seriously you know you can ignore their opinion.
Lorcan Nagle – another “well-meaning” fellow the tide wouldn’t drag in
Well, that reasoned bit of debate certainly proved something.
With such rhetorical power, why are you not running for office? there’s a general election soon, you know.
Seriously, it’s probably not too late to cosy up with one of the parties. You’re a shoe-in for the cabinet
And Dog Gone It’s invective has been stripped from the thread, making me look (even more) like a crazy person…
It’s hilarious when they do that
Score – Dog Gone. IT 1 Lorcan nil
Keep reaching for that rainbow, Dog.
I’d imagine the majority opinion (for whom you claim to speak) is actually:
give a little to the homeless, AND give a little to the refugees
but don’t give too much because we’re struggling with paying bills ourselves;
and also we don’t want to upset the societal apple-cart too much
Well last night for example I took my girlfriend’s snotty little ten year old brat to the pub to watch the Ireland game and bought him a coke – insufferable little bastrd
I stand corrected!
It was their money they could do what they like with it.
Quite! Freedom of choice and all that.
No, no, no you don’t understand Nigel
How dare they collect money for foreign “worthy causes” and not go out personally and rescue all the cats and dogs in the town dump in Skerries? I mean how thoughtless
I think it’s more how dare they imply that they might be in some way better or nicer than one or two random Broadsheet commenters who will be sure to cut them down to size and good enough for ’em.
That is not really blindness but what is commonly referred to as SEB*. Although a plight to society, it is great for cloaking spaceships.
*SEP – Somebody else’s problem
Well done girls! So impressed that they saw shocking new reports from Syria and decided to take action rather than just change the channel. Inspiring stuff. We could all learn a lesson from Grace and Nina.
Indeed. And reading the blog, they also looked after the home front, with 50% of what they raised going to Dogs for the Disabled.
Well done girls!
Disabled Dogs on Drugs?
Their second album is my favourite
Snoop Dog would agree.
Me, I disagree.
It’s OK,-nine out of 10
Are those rice crispy cakes gluten free? If not then they are nothing more than a pair of little arthritis causing Hitlers!
HITLERS!!!
And Godwin’s Law strikes again….