Pay it forward

Pay it forward

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CHARITABLE GIVING

Nowadays, many wealthy people decide to donate part of their fortune to charity, but what-s the reason they give this money?

Sometime, altruism isn’t the only reason for giving. Some people look for personal interests such as giving back part of the money they should pay in taxes or gaining publicity to influence he world around them. For example, Carlos Slim donate a lot of money to support helping programs for poor people, but who can tell us that he pays all his taxes? However, the favorable publicity we watch on TV makes the Mexican society believe that he is a great person. He’s the richest man of the world after all.

On the other hand, there’re people who find put other reasons to donate, for example, Gladys Holm who decided to donate money for philanthropic causes because a hospital saved the life of her friend’s daughter. There’re many other examples like this around the world that make this world a better world.

There are other important reasons why people donate, for example, the successful graduates donate to their universities to widen educational opportunities for other students, religious organizations that help orphan children.

We live in a world that’s dying little by little, but it’s asking everybody to work together and save it. All the wealthy people should be sensitive with what’s happening around them so they feel the necessity of donating.

PHILANTROPHY

There’s a nice amount of wealthy people in the world, but who is willing to donate part of his fortune to charity? This is a question that can only be answer by these people; however, it’s known that most of this people would refuse according to what’s happening in the world.

I would like to talk about the case of Bill Gates, president of Microsoft Company, who donated half of his fortune to support helping programs to the poor countries. This shows his feeling over the rest of the people.

Other cases, like this, occur around the world but it’s true that they are few. People like Gates prefer to give some of their money that they won’t use at all to benefit other causes, such as building schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. I can mention other philanthropist like Carlos Slim, and Warren Buffet.

In the other hand, the money donated by these people, sometimes, it’s not used the way it should by the organizations, or the poor people are not those who get benefits from it. This should be better regulated, just like Carlos Slim did, instead of donating the half of his fortune, he spend annually more than 5 thousand million dollars in social programs, regulated by Telmex and Fundación Carlos Slim. With these programs, he helps more than 165 thousand teenagers of the poor mexican families. 

We want to believe that all this is true, because sometimes the media make us believe things that are not true. Only those poor families know the truth. 

In conclusion, philanthropy is a nice activity that should be practiced by all the multimillionaire people around the world because, maybe that money they have could be used by other people who really need it.