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Trocaire Boxes

  • 24-02-2015 1:43am
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭


    What are you filling your one with this year, im filling mine with condoms anyway. The durex real feel no less none of them lidl rubbish. Have a better chance of my contributions reaching Africa than if i filled it with money.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Have to get one first


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭pmy.murphy


    Filling mine with Water. Might momentarily save them walking the 5 miles to get some


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Filling it with salt and vinegar sachets so those African lads can have a bit of sophistication on their chips.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    CJ Haughey wrote: »
    What are you filling your one with this year, im filling mine with condoms anyway. The durex real feel no less none of them lidl rubbish. Have a better chance of my contributions reaching Africa than if i filled it with money.

    Filling them with condoms is far from the worst thing to put in them with the state of sexual education in some African nations.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Haven't seen one in about 20 years. Didn't know they were still a thing?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Haven't seen one in about 20 years. Didn't know they were still a thing?

    Still forced on primary school kids every year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Gatling wrote: »
    Still forced on primary school kids every year

    Condoms?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭CJ Haughey


    Haven't seen one in about 20 years. Didn't know they were still a thing?

    Have you been living in a cave?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 774 ✭✭✭CarpeDiem85


    Gatling wrote: »
    Still forced on primary school kids every year

    What, charity and giving? What a disgrace.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    CJ Haughey wrote: »
    Have you been living in a cave?

    Haven't seen one since I was in primary school.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    What, charity and giving? What a disgrace.

    A charity with a religious agenda that they push on the ppl they "help"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 774 ✭✭✭CarpeDiem85


    A charity with a religious agenda that they push on the ppl they "help"

    Lol, a religious agenda? What would that be? Are you a Trocaire representative working on the ground, you sound like you know what's going on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Same as every year, jelly babies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Have to get one first

    Everyone in Donegal gets one at the end of Easter.;)

    Full.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito




  • Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    I'll save everyone the read of Mr. Ingonito's report.

    It says the CEO is on €225k a year plus undefined top ups, last year all the donations were ate up in administration charges which is why we have to do better this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson



    I went to this page
    http://www.trocaire.org/hiv

    It mentions the work they do to combat HIV. They don't mention condoms. Now they don't mention anything else either. they definitely skirt what they're advising people. They are either advising to use condoms and don't say because they're a catholic organisation or they are advising against it and aren't saying it because of public backlash.

    (Just a side note: besides that I couldn't see anything on their site I disagree with. They seem like a very good charity. I would prefer to give to a secular organisation but these guys aren't actually a bad group to give money to)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    91 cent of every €1 donated is spent on Trocaire expenditure?... Christ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    I'll save everyone the read of Mr. Ingonito's report.

    It says the CEO is on €225k a year plus undefined top ups, last year all the donations were ate up in administration charges which is why we have to do better this year.

    Ummmmm Page 51. Did you save yourself a read also?
    Trócaire’s Executive Director, Éamonn Meehan, as of May 2014 is paid a salary of €118,750 per annum


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    CJ Haughey wrote: »
    What are you filling your one with this year, im filling mine with condoms anyway. The durex real feel no less none of them lidl rubbish. Have a better chance of my contributions reaching Africa than if i filled it with money.

    How come you are receiving them if you so obviously aren't catholic?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    logik wrote: »
    91 cent of every €1 donated is spent on Trocaire expenditure?... Christ.

    Other way around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The sheer craziness of this thread is near overwhelming.


  • Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    A charity with a religious agenda that they push on the ppl they "help"

    Can you give an example of this agenda they are pushing? With a link to back up your claim?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Haven't seen them since I left primary school. I'm very picky about charities I donate to, these charities have gone on for years and has there been a significant improvement there? And whenever the RCC is doing good there tends to be a catch or something dodgy going on.


  • Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    Ummmmm Page 51. Did you save yourself a read also?


    Yes, yes I did . . . Do you not find made up senationalised figures far more entertaining than your drab facts

    I also have it on good authority that he keeps a young African boy in a cage in his office to dance for his pure amusement, they pay him in the English coppers which use the boxes to get rid of.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Gatling wrote: »
    Still forced on primary school kids every year

    When I was in school our teacher threw them all in the bin one day instead of giving them to us because the picture on the box featured a big smiling African fella.

    He said, 'yer man looks better fed an happier than most of you shower do' and that was the end of that.


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    There really are a lot of despicable posters in AH, a charity trying to help some of the poorest people in the world and you have people saying they will fill the boxes with all sorts of rubbish and all because of their anti-catholic agenda, pure and utter scumbags.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    We haven't received one in years. I honestly thought that they had stopped doing them. They used to be put in every letterbox in the area.


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    Miaireland wrote: »
    We haven't received one in years. I honestly thought that they had stopped doing them. They used to be put in every letterbox in the area.

    They are provided in all churches for those who want them.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    The things some people choose to get worked up about!

    No-one has ever, to my knowledge, been in way forced to put anything into a Trocaire box....in fact you don't even have to take one if you don't want to.

    That some people think it's good enough to get a box just to fill it with contraceptives and other rubbish is worrying....it would make me question their maturity tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭pmy.murphy


    There really are a lot of despicable posters in AH, a charity trying to help some of the poorest people in the world and you have people saying they will fill the boxes with all sorts of rubbish and all because of their anti-catholic agenda, pure and utter scumbags.

    Tell me what percentage does the people in need actually get from the donations? Its all a scam especially a lot of the Africa orientated charities and a lot of these charities line their own pockets with most of the money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    There really are a lot of despicable posters in AH, a charity trying to help some of the poorest people in the world and you have people saying they will fill the boxes with all sorts of rubbish and all because of their anti-catholic agenda, pure and utter scumbags.

    Trocaire, like many "charity" setups, are a despicable shower of hypocrites who love wrapping themselves up in sanctimonious do-goodery while scamming a very good living out of people's good nature. The God-botherers would do well to leave decent people alone. And I am not anti-Catholic, I'm anti-Asshole.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    The things some people choose to get worked up about!

    No-one has ever, to my knowledge, been in way forced to put anything into a Trocaire box....in fact you don't even have to take one if you don't want to.

    That some people think it's good enough to get a box just to fill it with contraceptives and other rubbish is worrying....it would make me question their maturity tbh.

    Whos worked up?
    Theres a little concern and bemusement that a charity who claim to help victims of overpopulation attributed famine, poverty and HIV have affiliation to a religion which stands against contraception, family planning and HIV resisting condoms.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭CJ Haughey


    That some people think it's good enough to get a box just to fill it with contraceptives and other rubbish is worrying....it would make me question their maturity tbh.

    Filling them with money is only lining the pockets of the parish priest and the ceos etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    CJ Haughey wrote: »
    What are you filling your one with this year, im filling mine with condoms anyway. The durex real feel no less none of them lidl rubbish. Have a better chance of my contributions reaching Africa than if i filled it with money.
    We actually have one all year round.

    Actually this year I have decided to prioritize charities that give vaccinations to kids. I think it's something that for a little jab protects that child and the community for years.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Wonder why schools don't champion homeless charities or the St Vincent's ,
    Something that actually relates to students .


    The whole oh look at the poor staving African babies belongs in the 1950's.
    and certainly shouldn't be pushed on to 5 year old school children .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Great place to get rid of coppers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    pmy.murphy wrote: »
    Tell me what percentage does the people in need actually get from the donations? Its all a scam especially a lot of the Africa orientated charities and a lot of these charities line their own pockets with most of the money.

    It's usually about 90%, however the CEO's are on silly wages and that is enough to stop me donating to many charities.

    Chuggers usually try and say this vaccine costs 7 cents or something and a donation will do a lot of good, however if you take €150,000 off a CEO salary you can just imagine how many people are being affected by exorbitant salaries. 7 cents divided into €150,000 is over 2 million people. Reminds me of how many Angela Kearns scammed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I don't use the box since I have a card that allows me donate whenever I want. One thing I particularly like about Trocaire, is that they don't send the begging letters like others do. I haven't donated to Concern in about 4 years and they still send me letters regularly


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Gatling wrote: »
    Still forced on primary school kids every year
    Not in our school.But please, feel free to generalize.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    jaja321 wrote: »
    Can you give an example of this agenda they are pushing? With a link to back up your claim?

    http://www.trocaire.org/whatwedo/who-we-are

    First Line in there about Us section...

    They are part of the C\tholic Church, an organisation that has a history of abuses, and the major abuse they are carrying out in the Africa is not giving out condoms to every man, woman and child


  • Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    http://www.trocaire.org/whatwedo/who-we-are

    First Line in there about Us section...

    They are part of the C\tholic Church, an organisation that has a history of abuses, and the major abuse they are carrying out in the Africa is not giving out condoms to every man, woman and child

    Are you aware of how Trocaire works?


  • Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    http://www.trocaire.org/whatwedo/who-we-are

    They are part of the C\tholic Church. . . the major abuse they are carrying out in the Africa is not giving out condoms to every man, woman and child

    How come condoms are freely available in Ireland and many people get STDs? Maybe the Catholic Church's position is more nuanced than people like to think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I remember these when I was in primary school in the '70's, can't be making a huge difference if they're still looking for money to solve the same problems in the same countries decades on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    thehouses wrote: »
    How come condoms are freely available in Ireland and many people get STDs? Maybe the Catholic Church's position is more nuanced than people like to think.

    You do know the history around Ireland and contraceptives right?

    And many African countries are more like past Ireland.


  • Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    You do know the history around Ireland and contraceptives right?

    And many African countries are more like past Ireland.

    I'm only 22 so tell me more...

    Also how are these countries like Ireland in the past?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Sheepy99


    What, charity and giving? What a disgrace.

    Now, now. Most people are of the opinion/know that most big name charities are just another money making scheme for those who work for them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    thehouses wrote: »
    I'm only 22 so tell me more...

    Also how are these countries like Ireland in the past?

    Ireland only legalised the sale of contraception without prescription in 1993. The same year it decided to decriminalise homosexuality, and people opposed both of those changes. My husband isn't an auld fella, but when he was in college only married couples could buy condoms and they had to have a prescription. There were court cases taken against Virgin Megastore because it sold condoms openly in the 1990s. Ireland is still has the most restrictive laws on abortion in the EU and a lot of our sex education in schools is laughably influenced by the fact that the vast majority of our schools are controlled by patrons of faiths who oppose the use of contraception, such as the catholic church. Ireland and its past is not a million miles away from countries where religious charities peddle their evangelism and access to the poor in exchange for food and clothes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭thehouses


    lazygal wrote: »
    Ireland only legalised the sale of contraception without prescription in 1993. The same year it decided to decriminalise homosexuality, and people opposed both of those changes. My husband isn't an auld fella, but when he was in college only married couples could buy condoms and they had to have a prescription. There were court cases taken against Virgin Megastore because it sold condoms openly in the 1990s. Ireland is still has the most restrictive laws on abortion in the EU and a lot of our sex education in schools is laughably influenced by the fact that the vast majority of our schools are controlled by patrons of faiths who oppose the use of contraception, such as the catholic church. Ireland and its past is not a million miles away from countries where religious charities peddle their evangelism and access to the poor in exchange for food and clothes.

    Thanks for the info.

    Unfortunately condoms won't solve the Aids problem and that is what I was getting at regarding the Catholic Church's position being more thought out than people think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    thehouses wrote: »
    Thanks for the info.

    Unfortunately condoms won't solve the Aids problem and that is what I was getting at regarding the Catholic Church's position being more thought out than people think.
    Condoms are about more than the Aids problem. They help to reduce the chances of young girls becoming pregnant and dropping out of education. They help women to exercise more control over their reproductive choices. The birth rate in Ireland dropped after contraception became more freely available. My parents and in laws both came from very large families, their own families were far smaller because they were able to control their fertility.


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