In the name of Charity

Charity. This term is sometimes being abused by people.

Went on this trip to the so call Floating Village. Where people live on boats.

They have their MaMa Shop, Police Station, Barber, School and even tanks that sell clean water.

On board the boat, the driver and the "guide" were very friendly. Especially so the "guide". Enthusiastically explaining to us about the lives of the people in this village. The highlight was to tell us how poor the people are, especially so the kids. Some of the kids lost their parents and are living in the small school. They depend on donations from people.

He asked us to buy rice, books or pencils for the kids. We buy the stuff from the people, they earned and gave to the community too. So it work both ways. Direct and Indirect.

I would be more than willingly to buy for the kids. But 75 US dollar a bag of 50kg rice. Isn't this a bit too much? But we did still paid for it. It's for the kids.

Well, that's not all.
Though we had already paid 15 US dollar each for our boat ticket, we still have to come up with another 20 US dollar for the driver and the "guide".

All in the name of Charity.