Red cross Australia is a profitable non-profit organisation

On 21st April 2005, thursday afternoon at around 11 am , i received a call from one of red cross Australia representative telling me that the Unley family store that i am volunteer in will be closed on 22nd April 2005.

Damn it ... no even a one week notice, the reason she said is the store is not making profit and the rent is too high .... there will be another 2 stores to be closed ...

??? Not making enough profit ????? that is a nonsence... everyday at least a 800 hundred dollars ... the most of the stuffs are donated .....

Many people around the area turned up on Saturaday and Sunday not knowing the store had closed .... Not a even a newspaper publication ....

red cross australia treat their volunteers as expandable and their customers as insignificant.

Where have all the $$$ goes to ????? going the pocket of those managment ???? or going to paid rise of the CEO ????

The recent misusing of Bali bombing donation fund by red cross have not resolved yet ...
www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/22/1053585646417.html?oneclick=true

To me , red cross is just like another National Kidney Foundation (NKF) in Singapore . NKF have more than 3 millions dollars in their surplus and yet they are still asking people for donation .... they spend huge $$$ on advertisement and hiring manpower to 'harass ' people for donation .....

While the Australian branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)(MSF) ask donors to stop pledging money to its tsunami appeal.
It paused its appeal after reaching its $1 million target as any donations beyond that limit could not be used.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Deluged-with-money-charity-says-stop/2005/01/03/1104601300088.html?oneclick=true

To me , MSF is the truely non-profit charity organisation while red cross Australia and NKF are profitable non-profit organisation.

With so much $$$ in their surplus , yet they are asking people for more donation .... in which area are they going to spend the $$$ in ????

the true red cross people is risking their lives in the war torn and natural disaster area helping the victims , they have not enough food to eat and clean water to drink while the management in red cross Australia is eating beef steak and drinking red wine in a high pose restaurant ....

i responded to the volunteer service after the tsunamis disaster but i have regret now as i have made a wrong choice to a wrong organisation ...

Australia Red cross .... is nothing but a profitable organisation.

Volunteer have to pay for their first aid training while St John Ambulance Brigade offered it free to their volunteer ....

No coffee will served if you visited any of their office saying that you want to leave a will to the red cross ....

Australia Red cross have put the name of Red Cross and Red Crescent to shame ...

Missed Opportunities

The other day I ran across the story of a man who had a great
opportunity that he missed. His friend took him for a ride one day
way out in the country. They drove off the main road and drove
through groves of trees to a large uninhabited expanse of land. A
few horses were grazing, and a couple of old shacks remained. The
friend, Walter, stopped the car, got out, and started to describe
with great vividness the wonderful things he was going to build. He
wanted his friend Arthur to buy some of the land surrounding his
project to get in on the ground floor.

But Arthur thought to himself, Who in the world is going to
drive twenty-five miles for this crazy project? The logistics of
the venture are staggering.

And so Walter explained to his friend Arthur, "I can handle the
main project myself. But it will take all my money. But the land
bordering it, where we're standing now, will in just a couple of
years be jammed with hotels and restaurants and convention halls to
accommodate the people who will come to spend their entire vacation
here at my park." He continued, "I want you to have the first
chance at this surrounding acreage, because in the next five years
it will increase in value several hundred times."

"What could I say? I knew he was wrong," Arthur tells the story
today. "I knew that he had let this dream get the best of his
common sense, so I mumbled something about a tight-money situation
and promised that I would look into the whole thing a little later
on."

"Later on will be too late," Walter cautioned Arthur as they
walked back to the car. "You'd better move on it right now."

And so Art Linkletter turned down the opportunity to buy up all
the land that surrounded what was to become Disneyland. His friend
Walt Disney tried to talk him into it. But Art thought he was
crazy.

--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale
House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 389.

Bush walking and me

Bushwalking in Aussie term meant treking.... Being in here in Australia especially South Australia, nature park is abundent...

Being sick of living in city, i made a point of living at the outskirt which is near any nature park ...

Close to me is Waterfall Gully, Horsnell Gully and Morialta conservation park ...
My favourite is Morialta which feature three waterfalls ( will appear in winter)

Being a hyperactive person, i made an effect to jog almost everyday .... bushwalking or cycling on alternate weekend...

I managed to grap some people who share the same interest as me ... it will be boring to exercise alone ...

I have place the photo i have taken on the link .... more will be posted ...

Indeed i find bushwalking fun and enjoyable ... meeting close with kangaroo, bandicoot, koala , cockatoo, kookaburra etc not in the zoo but their native home...