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UNWANTED PIECES OF Lego are being used as a new ‘currency’ to fund nursing home care for sick children under four.
The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation plan on selling the Lego and using the money raised to fund care for children with severe to profound disabilities.
It’s calling on families, preschools, schools and businesses across the country to round up any loose unwanted Lego and donate or sell it to the charity.
The charity added that there’s no need for complete sets or boxes, it’s looking for loose Lego.
Every €16 raised through this Jack & Jill’s Lego Appeal will fund one hour of home nursing care for a sick child.
Jonathan Irwin CEO and Founder of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation said:
We know the Christmas tidy-ups have already started across Irish homes, and we would ask people to rescue that unwanted Lego from under the bed and donate it to Jack & Jill.
“With the money raised, we will fund home nursing care hours for sick children in every community in Ireland, so this is recycling and reselling for a very good cause.”
People can donate the Lego via DPD Ireland’s 38 depots around the country, with locations listed on www.dpd.ie and www.jackandjill.ie.
Alternatively, people can donate or sell the Lego via one of Jack & Jill’s five Charity Boutiques located in Arklow, Carlow, Naas, Newbridge and Wicklow, with the charity buying the Lego for €4 per kilo.
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Great article.
Thoughtful and thought provoking.
Great article.. we could all learn from it I suppose.
I see ur point but neither do I need to see a migrants baby washed up on the beach.
@Kath Noonan: I think the difference the author was trying to highlight is that photos of an accident site are for gratuitous ‘likes’ whereas the picture of the child was highlighting a crisis that was costing lives that European society was ignoring. That said, when the latter image was published it was typically pixelated be the media but I actually found the description in the accompanying text more impactful
@Kath Noonan: think you missed the point. Author was asking for consideration in context and using good judgement, but shoehorn in a topic anyway.
@Kath Noonan: This is actually a really good article and highlights a subject that needs to be urgently addressed. Hard to see how anyone can manipulate it to suit their own agenda and yet you managed it. It’s such a shame that you either completely missed the point, are an attention seeker or are just a not very nice person.
As a Norwegian native, I was appalled by this “name and shame” thing, when I came to Ireland 15 years ago. The only times we normally name criminals back there, are when they’re wanted fugitives, and even then, only when they’re a danger to the public.
Of course, the media has deemed a few to be exceptional cases, of importance to the public, including the Breivik case, as well as the NOKAS robberies in 2004. In both cases, the public were hungry for information, until the perps were caught.
To keep the public interested, all the media had to do, was to cease naming them after the cops confirmed the right people had been arrested.
@Finn H. Schoyen: It isn’t a good idea when it’s thoughtless. But I think it goes back to the ancient times when a poet was capable of destroying a person’s reputation. I suppose it served a purpose then, because no one was considered immune from satire. Maybe it was a way to oblige kings to treat other people fairly. Norway is no slouch at satirising public figures either.
Also ppl get off in court when this happens because they didn’t get a fair hearing, guilty by social media
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