Comments on: Youngster funds third world relief via joy of comics http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/01/youngster-funds-third-world-relief-via-joy-of-comics/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Dan Guy http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/01/youngster-funds-third-world-relief-via-joy-of-comics/#comment-74107 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:23:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/03/01/youngster-funds-third-world-relief-via-joy-of-comics/#comment-74107 Hopefully World Vision is not the same organization that advertises it as "buying a buffalo for a needy family" but <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2006/12/26/water-buffalo-worst-possible-christmas-present/" rel="nofollow">does not buy an actual buffalo or select an actual family</a>, but rather puts all the money into a general fund for helping people. Not that this makes it less admirable of the boy, or of the organization, but it doesn't have quite the same ring to it. (And even a non-buffalo giving organization can inspire <a href="http://www.thompsonjazz.com/movies/waterbuffalo/flash-hi.htm" rel="nofollow">amazing charity</a>.) Hopefully World Vision is not the same organization that advertises it as “buying a buffalo for a needy family” but does not buy an actual buffalo or select an actual family, but rather puts all the money into a general fund for helping people. Not that this makes it less admirable of the boy, or of the organization, but it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

(And even a non-buffalo giving organization can inspire amazing charity.)

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