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From: ecl@ahuta.UUCP (ecl)
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Subject: Who gives to charity
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 15:33:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 15:33:09 1985
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Read in U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT (1/21/85, pg. 13):

	"From New Jersey's posh Saddle River Day School, where an
	'awful, awful sneakers' contest raised $77.50, to skid row
	in Los Angeles, where derelicts donated $171 in coins and
	crumpled bills, people opened their hearts and pockets to
	help starving Africans."

So derelicts can raise 2-1/2 times as much as children in a "posh" suburb?
How inspiring that those who have the least can still find something to give,
but how depressing that those who have the most seem to give the least.

(No, I don't know how many children or how many derelicts were involved,
but the implication certainly made one stop and think.)

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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