In a world of disasters and suffering brought to your living room every night or to your laptop every second, who cares? When you see an advert by Action Aid or a leaflet from Oxfam what you do? How do you react when Angelina Jolie or Bono asks for your money or attention for starving children in Africa? We have new research from LSE’s Dr Shani Orgad that will tell us what the public really think about aid appeals.
Join us for a panel debate on Wednesday November 9th at 6.30pm in the LSE Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic building, Lincolns’ Inn Fields.
The speakers are drawn from a wide range of humanitarian marketing:
Brendan Gormley (Disasters Emergency Committe), Lynda Thomas (Macmillan Cancer Support), Rachel Bell (Shine Communications), and Leigh Daynes (Plan UK).
This event is being held in partnership with Plan UK
Hashtag: #LSEPlan
These days there are so many requests for aid that I think people have become immune. I have 3 sponsor children and have recently returned from 6 months community service in Kenya. I appreciate the difficulties. I have thought alot about this and would like to add the following comments.
1. Aid is necessray to alleviate immediate suffering due to nauturaly disasters anywhere in the world.
2. Rather than continuously receiving money people should be encouraged and educated to be self sufficent, this we all know but it is not happening. We all know this but it is not working. Governments are corrupt and greedy and until we address this we will have a hard time making progress.
so 3. Explaining , thorugh thh media WHY money is needed for education and HOW it sill be used is better than showing a lot of pictures of poor starving children.
I could continue for a long time and am , myslef, working on a plan to raise awareness of the “man in the street”
I wrote the following ” Raising money and donating aid promotes greed and laziness. Raising awareness and donating time promotes motivation and hope”
I would love to be present at the debate tonight but unfortunately live in Switzerland and it is not possible.