I'm 21 years old and from Liverpool, UK. Recently finished studying Economics and Politics at the University of Manchester.
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Its been a while. Finished my finals last week and will hopefully be moving on to peace and prosperity very soon.
Finally got the Swahili Rosetta Stone!
“Wasichana wanakimbiza mvulana” means “girls chasing a boy” is one of the sentences I’ve now learnt - I’m so proud.
Can’t believe how many times I’ve read that the charity has a 2* Charity Navigator rating - when it actually has an overall 3* rating - naturally most people haven’t bothered to check the website. It is bad that the leaders/founders get approx. $90,000 ‘compensation’ for their work, but if you look at the leader of Oxfam, whilst he gets a smaller percentage (of a much larger income) their compensation totals at way over $300,000.
People are so cynical. While the charity video did pull at my heartstrings (as a number of campaigns do), I’m not 100% behind the charity, but I don’t think it quite deserves as much criticism as its currently getting. I think its criticisms mostly derive from people going out their way to to be ‘non-conformist’ [the same way people claimed changing your profile picture on FB to cartoon characters was in fact what paedophiles had planned]. Whilst a charity shouldn’t go unquestioned, a lot of these criticisms are very much unfounded.
