How is this a deserving cause?
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December 26, 2013 at 7:52pm
The Malta Community Chest Fund has been giving money to the weird Yi Xue Life Cultivation Malta Association. How is this either a deserving cause or a charity?
Meanwhile, people in the immigrant camps are begging for blankets and warm jackets.
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Kif tista’ ma ccempilx, eh?
Better than giving money to finance someone’s family member through her studies!
Better? No.
Best not give anything at all. Crooks and scoundrels have found their way into the administration of the Community Chest Fund, and it can no longer be trusted.
I don’t know why anyone would want to give money to charity anyway. It’s like giving a fish to the hungry man in the proverb. It’s far better to give money to the man who can give him a fishing rod. But then there aren’t many of those around.
So save that money, and next time you visit the shops, pay that extra something for goods that are made in Europe.
That is the main reason I decided not to donate to L-Istrina this year, the other reason being that the Community Chest Fund seems to place animals needs before the needs of immigrants.
HPB, charity is an English thing – a strategy to prevent social mobility. In France or Germany they don’t do charity ( or very little) – they give people resources and education the level of which is dwindling in the UK.
Today on local TV stations, I heard two elements of statistics about the Community Chest Fund.
It collected Eur 15 million over the past 5 years.
Of which, Eur 2 million were invested in the Foundation for Eating Disorders.
Joe Fenech, I think you’ll find there’s far greater social mobility in the UK than in that socialist pesthole France. In Germany, they have found the key to sustainable social mobility through what my mate Spud calls the gentrification of labour.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120617/health-fitness/Eastern-remedies-for-the-west.424733#.Urx6MrB3sdV
JPO lookalike – the Asian version.
I failed in an attempt for a donation for my foundation: Wot Tuf Luk.
He’s smoking an invisible cigar. Maybe there is something to the Lotus Great magic after all.
Oh yes, I thought he had just finished picking his nose. Ah, that’s relaxing.
Isn’t his group under the Chairmanship of Grandmaster Wei Ling Yi who has inherited this supreme Great System from his family and whose most important teacher was his mother, Bai Zi, who brought him up with the basic idea, “De Wei Gong Mu”: “Virtue is the mother of the Gong”?
”At 16 he was named “Bai Xing Shen Yi” (miracle healer of the people).”
How sweet!!
http://www.my-malta.com/hosted/qigongmalta_master.html
Is anyone forming part of the MLP’s or Gorg Abela’s extended family clients experimenting with this remedy?
John Bundy was the prime clown of the show today – that is a major put-off and an additional reason not to give any money.
If John Bundy is putting you off from giving to L-Istrina, would people with cancer be incentive enough?
If one needs to give money to a particular cause or charity, there is no need to go through a low-class show with a low class behaviour that is typical Xarabank/Maltese standard.
Decent donations are given without any fanfare to those charities that duly deserve such donations.
I bet you that John Bundy, Michelle Muscat and most of the personalities with similar shallow character that clowned in front of the camera are the ones that will never ever dare to help the ones in need, unless they can take advantage of the situation and make sure that their action is conducted in front of the media.
If you wish to help people with cancer, you can donate directly to cancer charities.
P Shaw, you nailed it. Any relation to Jonathan Shaw?
He is a quack. I believe the Zerafa girls know him.
Another ‘deserving cause’ could be the government of Malta having to sell passports to earn money.
Daphne, is information about these donations publicly available? There are almost no references to Yi Xue online, except for their site and a Times of Malta article. Something’s not right.
First of all, thank you Daphne for keeping us up to date with what’s happening. I wonder how you manage to do all that you do.
Then heartfelt good wishes of the season to you and your family. Wishes extended to all who participate in this blog.
This year I gave L-Istrina a miss. My money will be going to Villa Mons. Azzopardi.
I gave Istrina a miss as well. I gave a direct donation to Hospice Malta.
Was the contribution of E2m towards Darlene Zerafa’s clinic and the E10k donation to set up a music for prisoners deserving causes? That’s why level headed people shouldn’t have donated this year and given their donation to more deserving causes.
Well, as I’ve just posted a comment under a different subject I’ll repeat here as more appropriate. Yes, I’ve just gone out to post my donations to The Ladybird Foundation & The Golden Daffodil Foundation….plus attending a fundraising event held at The Villa, in St. Julians. No L-Istrina for me this year, sorry.
Does the Community Chest Fund publish proper financial accounts, not just the list of beneficiaries and the respective amounts received?
It does publish a list of assets and expenses but they are not audited. This might have been valid years ago, when the amounts donated were small and the expenses and assets were negligable.
This is no longer the case. Fixed assets have increased to something in the region of 500k and expenses have exploded.
This is why I did not donate to Istrina but donated directly to the deserving cause.
Unfortunately under this President Istrina has just become a very expensive post box.
What had happened regarding the Alfred Mangion case?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/so-which-is-the-wrong-alfred-mangion/
If you can spare a warm coat or jacket, contact https://www.facebook.com/sunflower.malta?hc_location=stream
She posted an appeal here https://www.facebook.com/groups/357928747634407/558621257565154/?ref=notif¬if_t=group_activity
Here is the movement named “Free HELP in Malta”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/531589523587176/
My screen name is Sunflower Malta, my name is Oliena, and I am of Russian origin Citizen of Malta.
I am a free unpaid volunteer and I do not raise any funds on behalf of any NGO.
People who join our movement not only care for the poor among the Syrian and African refugees, but also for the poor among Maltese.
Our goal is to combat the poverty on the island by connecting those in need with those who are willing to help but do not know where and how.
Currently we are trying to find the premises to open Free HELP outlets in every village, the places run by volunteers, where people can bring their items to donate and anyone in need can walk in and take what he needs free of charge. No fund raising, no car boot sales, no charity shops.
Help must be FREE.
Anything Asian especially Chinese goes nowadays.
I do not agree with making the Community Chest fund a political football. I donated and helped collect donations. I do not agree if we give out money to persons who do not need help, but please remember all the people that have been helped when they were in need.
If the president who is in charge of this organization knows of these allegations he should speak up and bring things out in the open, for good order’s sake.
The President is the last person who can speak up about any allegations of abuses by CCF. Whenever I see him, I always remember that unethically he used all the power of his position for financial gains for a member of his extended family, Darleen Zerafa.
The president, and most of the CCF board did all they could to keep it a secret from the public.
The important thing is the record amount collected, how it is spent is irrelevant.
Why should people donate to support these?
http://www.yixue.de/kurseEN.html
I am all for understanding different cultures and philosophies and adopting alternative strategies to reduce suffering but was the Strina marketing reflecting this?
I can’t stand the way Maltese newspapers just print what they receive, without asking questions or checking facts.
How on earth could an editor even think of regurgitating these wild claims without asking questions or getting the views of a real doctor?
“The immune system is stimulated and increases the activity of anti-cancer defence cells. If a person manages to practise regularly cancer cells can even be destroyed.”
“Kai Zhi teaching is one area of the Yi Xue culture that aims at children’s wellbeing, maintenance of physical health, stability of the emotional self and the development of a positive mindset. Research in this field of life science has also shown it can result in improved school performance, concentration and memory.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120617/health-fitness/Eastern-remedies-for-the-west.424733#.Ur0jk_RDt8E
“Kai Zhi teaching is one area of the Yi Xue culture that aims at children’s wellbeing, maintenance of physical health, stability of the emotional self and the development of a positive mindset. Research in this field of life science has also shown it can result in improved school performance, concentration and memory.”
In other words, a Chinese Chuck Norris. Funded by the gullible Maltese and their prez.
Hooray and ho ho ho.
Because the Community Chest Fund, now, is taghna zgur”
This is that time of the year when people dig deep into their pockets and be generous with those who really need it.
There are dozens of NGOs and charities which do sterling work. Others are plain fraud.
I think the way money is distributed by the Malta Community Chest Fund leaves much room for doubt as to whether it is done in the best manner.
Why, for instance, dedicate a large portion of the fund for the grandiose project of the clinic for eating disorders, where the number of beneficiaries will be relatively small, when we know that there are 60,000 persons in Malta at risk of living below the poverty level.
Could not a larger number of persons have their condition improved with the money?
Might not this clinic be construed more as a monument to someone’s ego? I have a nagging feeling that the Community Chest Fund has become an instrument of power. I also find the resistance to registering it as an NGO rather suspicious.
Why wasn’t the eating disorders clinic financed by the health budget?
”Franciscan Sisters in UK NGO for animal welfare” This seems a rather sloppy way of listing a beneficiary. Has anyone clarified who/what this is?
Ambiguity has only one purpose in such situations does it not?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131219/local/l-istrina-beneficiaries-announced.499719#.Ur01lvRDt8E
Also on Malta Independent today !
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-12-27/news/pms-wife-criticized-for-wearing-fur-3546775555/
It was a ‘min jidher l-iktar’ contest between Bundy and Alfred Zammit. Pathetic.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-12-27/news/pms-wife-criticized-for-wearing-fur-3546775555/
Is-sinjal li qed juri b’subajh ihassibni ghax hekk iselmu il-membri fl-ghaqdiet sigrieti tal-freemasonry.
I would not donate to any charity associated to the president, knowing his poor judgement on some issues.
Jien l’istess ghamilt……. ma taghjtom xejn lill Community Chest Fun ghax ma ghandiex fiducja kif izzommu l-accounts. Imma tghajt lill istitut tat-tfal orfni.
Il President George Abela tilef l-fiducja ta’ hafna nies u rrid jaghmel minn kollox biex johrog bl’unuri kollha ghall ahhar darba li organiza din l-attivita. Jien ma nemmen xejn mill farsa tal-bierah.
What I find even more worrying is the fact that the President himself and the Maltese people in general seem to assess Dr. George Abela’s performace as President by the magnitude of the sum of money collected in L-Istrina rather than his performance as Head of State.
The fund-raiser has totally overshadowed the constitutional figure.
A Head of State should leave fund-raising and the just distribution of collected funds to independent third parties and limit himself to being a patron. I do not agree that a Head of State should be directly involved in the distribution of money for, even were this to be done most scrupulously, it does not become his position.
I did not donate to the CCF for the same reason.
the president should look how his campaign is being used to ridicule children and no one dares condemn these idiots
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1402812876630826&set=gm.609841812397649&type=1&theater
Maybe he’s another of Konrad Mizzi’s relatives: Ti Ni Floos
Here’s one who thinks he’s white, and says funds should go to Maltese people and animals, not to an NGO that helps migrants.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131219/local/l-istrina-beneficiaries-announced.499719#.Ur3i6X-9KSN
Malcolm Seychell
Will not donate to istrina but for honest people who are working and helping Maltese people and animals!!!. JRS malta need money? joke of the century
“In each seminar Wei Ling Yi builds up a high Lotus-8 trigram energy field in order to activate the Qi and the self-healing power of the participants. In order to increase these effects, the exercises can be practised together.”
This is an extract from Wei Ling website which I cannot comprehend. Is it me, am I missing something? Is this something related to evolutionary process?
If this man cannot explain such nonsense with science should be sent to jail let alone giving him money.
Xtaqt kieku ncempel imma ma sibtx numru ghal kutri f`dan il-ksieh biex insabbar ftit immigranti.
Tghid issa xi hadd isib il-hin jibghat ftit kutri Hal Far? Jew hemm il-boghod mill-Palazzi tal-Hakkiema.
Pai Mei teaching Beatrix Kiddo the five-point-palm exploding heart technique in Kill Bill.