Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Kony

"Should HSC participate in Invisible Children's 'Paint the Night' initiative on April 20th to spread awareness about Kony 2012?"

In my opinion, bringing justice to Kony is important; without a doubt. The problem with the "Paint the Night" campaign is that there is only a 2% efficiency rate. The majority of the donations received from this campaign will go straight to the organizers as a profit, another large percent will go two advertising, but only 2% will actually go to the cause in Uganda. Because of the fact that such a small percentage of the donations go to the cause, I believe that HSC should stay away from this initiative; however, this does not mean that we should just forget about the issue. Hillfield may chose to do some sort of fundraiser but if that is the case all of the profits should go directly to the cause, not go through invisible children.