yes it does

Feed The Children feed everyone and anyone hungry, regardless of nationality. The commercial is just hitting up the more famished countries for the image, the food and money donated to the cause feeds everyone that is hungry...not just a certain country, unless the charity you donate too only helps a certain country.

" Poor ( insert child's name here ) has never been to school. He's never even had a pair of shoes. "

Well....guess what...I, personally, don't give a damn about ( insert name here ). I am more concerned, by a LONG ways, with the children here who have no idea where their next meal is going to come from. Whether or not they'll have to sleep in the car tonight.

Now, before I get branded as a heartless bastard...

I grew up not knowing where my next meal was coming from. there were times when all we had to exist on were potatoes or eggs. There were times when the best we had was popcorn. There were also a LOT of times when there was nothing at all.

Having gone through that in the " richest " country in the world...I know the hypocrisy of that idea. I don't want to see ANY child going through it. It's a very bad way for a child to have to spend part of their life.

Well..they sure don't let anyone know that they are focused on anything but the third world countries.

Besides...only around 50 cents of every dollar donated goes to any kind of food bank or anything else to help the homeless and hungry.

Not true; http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_financial_accountability

Organizations like Feed The Children are audited yearly to provide accurate representation of where the money donated goes. That audit is from the fiscal year of 2007 where 100% of the money donated went to programs to help the hungry.

Here is a breakdown of the numbers as copied and pasted from the audit:

Program Services (childcare, food, medical, disaster relief, and community development): 83%
Fundraising: 13%
Management and Supporting Services: 4%
Total: 100%

Sorry dude. That's 83%. Not 100%.

I'll just stick with my little hometown's charity that helps feed the needy.

All services provided by the charity are voluntary. All donations are too.

Cool, stick with your local charities. But still 100% does go to programs to help the hungry (fundraiser, and management and supporting service is still helping the hungry.).

That 4% that they are paying for management isn't going for services.

When you consider how much they have donated to them every year....that 4% winds up being quite a lot of money even though the percentage is pretty small.

OMG, you know so many think that when someone is on food stamps that they are living high on the hog.

Ohhh let me tell ya I have a friend that has child even just filed for food stamps and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my gawddddddddddd they gave him soooooooooooo much I really do not know what he will do with all of them. lmao

Okay now here is reality they gave him $30.00 worth he lost his job and now on unemployment and well now still trying to figure out how they expect you to pay all your bills and buy what you need on less then $350 a weeek.

Here in Texas the max amount of unemployment one can get is $382 or $392 not sure which one.

Does anyone realize in order to file for food stamps and get them you must be within the 200-300% poverty level. Believe me just because one is on food stamps they are not living high on the hog so to speak.

Many things contribute to homelessness and hunger.

The shear cost of houseing is a big part of the problem. As long as we as a nation refuse to build basic affordable accessible houseing people will not have a place to live. The not in my neighborhood attitude is part of the problem but so is the fact that people who own homes frequently loose them to preditory lending practices. There are plenty of homes setting empty but rather than having homesteading programs where first time homeowners can rehab existing houseing they set empty as a blight to the neighborhood while we bailout the banks that wrote unaffordable morgages.

The ineffectual public education system that allows for as much as 80% of some school districts not to graduate their students creates and ongoing underclass. These students will never earn a living wage. And their children will be malnurished guaranteeing even futher developemental disabilities.

That we dis-allow a disabled person to collect social security for a year or longer until they are totally and permenently disabled before we even offer to rehabilitate them or start survival benifits. That guarantees they will be bankrupted and or homeless since very few people have enough resources to sustain themselves for a year without employment income.

That we offer little or no stable houseing for wards of the state, bounceing them from foster home to foster home and discharge them well before they have the education or maturity to survive in the world pretty much guarantees they will fall into the penal system sooner or later.

Another is that our country does not offer a comprehensive mass transit system so families can get to work and to support their families rather than car payments, exhorbident insurance, and repair costs.

Donate to whatever charity you want, this thread wasn't started as a means of advertisement I put the site up for people to look into it themselves. Regardless of personal opinion on what that organization does with the money donated (which it says 100% goes to the hungry), if there is no basis of fact for the opinion than the opinion is just an opinion and not outright fact. The audit is there for everyone to see, and make their own judgement on what they think the money donated goes too...I'm not here to argue it, figure they have an e-mail address and they can address the concern themselves if the way they have already addressed it is not substantial enough.

Feral there are many many places that give out food to the homeless and those that need the help and yes as you said 100% of it is in fact is given to all those that say they need it. Those type of charities are the ones that were started many times by one that has actually been in the situation they had no idea where their next meal would come from.



Opps and did not mean to bring any negative to your thread. For at this time this is what reality is within every state and still increasing each minute.

I personally donate to Feed The Children, if you want to donate to local charity then go for it...it really doesn't matter too me.

So very true it is all for a great cause. And anyone that feels the money does not go where it should then heck drive down to the closes shelter and give things to others. Be it cloths sleeping bags or money regardless what you give as long as you kmow that in fact you were helping those need. Good thread Feral,,,,