Question:
IF You Could Make a Difference.....?
paulrb8
2007-10-05 11:32:52 UTC
if you had endless money and time, who would you help and how would you make a difference in their life?
Fourteen answers:
T
2007-10-05 11:46:57 UTC
I'd make sure my family (that includes my kids, my sister, my nieces, etc.) would be taken care of for the rest of their lives. Then I'd look for people like me; the ones that get lost in the government system, people that make too much money to qualify for any government help but don't make enough money to ever get ahead. People that want to go to school and just can't afford to pay back student loans. People with bad credit that are working to straighten things out. People that are under insured or not insured at all. People that have to choose between medication or food.
sanny
2007-10-05 18:47:16 UTC
If the money was endless then I would be able to help many people in many different ways. I always say if I won the lottery millions I would put it in the bank and use the interest every week to help a different cause.I would try to help the poor in other countries to get water, schools, hospitals etc. I would also help cancer and different health charities and would set up and run animal shelters. The list is endless. If only.
2007-10-05 18:57:18 UTC
Whoa !! ENDLESS MONEY AND TIME !! NO thank you --- I do not want THAT on MY conscience !! Too many needs, too many things to help with and with THAT kind of assets -- you could literally kill yourself trying to manage it all --- that is if you had a truly beneficent heart !!

Now, with a great sum of money and time -- there would STILL be pressure to "git 'er done" and a lot of great works that could be achieved ----- MY charity of choice happens to be the Shriner's Hospitals for Children --- they run some 22 or 23 hospitals within the country and treat (at absolutely NO CHARGE) children with crippling disorders and burn injuries !! And, they are THE PREMIERE such services in the world !!

I would load them down with so much "stuff" that they'd have to hire help to be able to deal with it all !! Maybe build ANOTHER hospital or add special service wings onto the ones that they have !! For these people do the best work in this realm of any in the world -- and, they LOVE their work -- you visit one of these places and you can feel that literally coming out of the woodwork !!!

And, then, after it was all said and done --- I would very quietly and covertly sit in the visitors area near the dismissal offices and watch the families leaving with their children in SO much better shape than when they came in -- and my heart would be singing an anthem of joy for them --- and I would be reaping payment for anything at all that I had done toward this outcome !!!!!!!!
Willow
2007-10-05 18:44:15 UTC
In a word? EVERYONE. If I truly had endless money and time then I would be able to make everyone in the world happy. I could eradicate hunger and poverty, invest in curing diseases that kill thereby eradicating it also. I could pay to have the biggest army in the world so no other nation would dream of starting wars, thus there would be peace. Lets face it most of the problems on this planet are caused by greed of one kind or another, if we remove that greed the world would be a much better place.
Jojotraveller
2007-10-05 18:42:40 UTC
When in Kenya last year we visited a school for orphans.... I would certainly go back and help those kids out.



Trouble is you will never be able to help everyone, but I would try and set up trust funds for all of the children to help them out in life, with the express wish that they would carry on the work in some form.



I would also make sure that any money given away wasn't just handed out, I would want people to make an effort towards it and get some meaning from it. i.e. build a farm and give them all the basics, but make sure they run it, and bring in people that can teach them about sustaining it all.
Dinah
2007-10-05 21:06:48 UTC
Endless money and time would enable EVERYTHING I'd make a difference in, so honing it down to just one for the sake of space would imply that one is my highest priority, which it's not. They're all high priority.



One I'd do is establish a prep school for girls from daycare through eighteen. It would omit the common attraction to and distraction of boys, encouraging serious study and attaining serious attention. There would be jumpers and Tshirts as dress code, to omit competition with wardrobe, and closed-toed shoes for toe protection. Classes would start at 9 and end at 5, beginning at age 15. There would be Latin, French, math, science, English, civics, geography, history, art and music, all in a Montessouri-type approach allowing free rein to high achievers and patient repetition for low ones. Rather than grades, there would be proficiency levels. Age, but for hours of 9 to 5 at 15, would be no criteria for placement in proficiency levels. Specialties would be offered for the last three hours after age 15, in whatever field proficiency warranted. Accredited post-graduate study establishments, such as colleges and universities, issuing their standard SATs and such, would ideally also accept proficiency levels rather than grades.



I'd do the same for boys, with dress code pants, belt and shirt.



There would be sponsored socials so the sexes could mix. Pregnancy and any disease would be avoided with birth control for both sexes and a thorough education about various means of contracting those diseases.



The result I would hope, would be thoroughly educated young men and women who realize first-hand how many years are available for further improvement before partners for families or permanent companionship are chosen.
nottmlayla
2007-10-05 19:43:31 UTC
I would help all the children who are malnurished, and the chinese girls abandoned in orphanages,as they not wanted due to the law,1 child ony,and they opt for boys,i would try and set up a way to let these children be adopted overseas,and the malnurished,have access to safe houses,in war torn countries,where they can receive basic food ,and vaccines,criky the list is endless,anything i could do basically that would stop the needless suffering that goes on in todays world.
Izzie My Blueberry Nights
2007-10-05 18:44:21 UTC
I work in collaboration, meaning just on projects. When is finish...no job, no benefits. I did have a great job...but sometimes we make life choices that may be great for some, and not for us.



However, I do make a difference everyday in people's and animals life's. So, image if I was rich.



Like usual I end up talking about my best friend, but we were a power couple. Not rich, but pretty much active in helping others..we complemented each other...



Cheers
irish398
2007-10-05 19:47:20 UTC
take care of our hero's in the military when they are discharged, injured, or fall on hard times.





i would use my money to gain power in Washington to push through legislation to make punishments more severe for most crimes.



i would also pressure a in the amount of terms any congressional or senate member can have consecutively.



The rest of my time and money would go to help children in need. In need of education, medical care, clothes, etc. The rest of us have made our own mistakes and we should be responsible for fixing them.



i would give no one individual money. you can't ever use money to solve money problems. if you throw money at a problem where finances are the problem, that money will be used irresponsably again. you must first change policy and behavior before money will be any help.
2007-10-05 19:35:00 UTC
I would give loads of money to all different charities then i would give money to all my family and friends. Then I would start up my own research centre to find out how to fight certain diseases, like cancer, aids, and others.

I would set up a centre for abused children and spend a lot of time with them to help sort out there problems.

I cant think of anything else but im sur there would be other things that i would do.
2007-10-05 18:40:36 UTC
children, and i'd teach them, i'd start a free service for individual tuition on any subject to help children who don't shine at school and get left behind. it would be beneficial to the individual and the society as a whole.
~~simply me~~
2007-10-05 18:39:25 UTC
i will help those family who can't afford their kids to school or to further their studies when they hahve the chance...because i believe that by education, we can change someone life! So, building more schools and hire more teaches are what i need!
cigaro19
2007-10-05 19:10:44 UTC
I would stop global warming by making sure everyone had access to reusable energy, and buy everyone cars powered by renewable electricity.

Also I would make sure everyone has equal access to food and education and health worldwide
2007-10-05 19:03:28 UTC
I'll build houses 4 everybody don't have one and give them money to start their life ... I'll build mosques every where , free education schools and collages and hospitals (basic things)


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