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Such comparisons with charities and social service organizations are fine but there is a difference between social service focussed charities and BKWSU. If you have to evaluate an organization, you need to do it against its objectives. If BKWSU preached that they were taking donations from students to feed the hungry but diverting the money into building facilities, then it would be a crime and you have full right to criticize but everytime any student contributes, it's well known what the project is for and people are free not to contribute if they don't belive in its cause.
And it's not that they don't engage in any form of social service. They do in many Indian villages in drug and tobacco de-addiction programs, through medical wing at GHRC for health care and prison reform services.
And BKs do operate in villages. I had personally seen many small centres in villages and poor areas of India run by local Sisters without much facility (BTW, these are the places where I met some of the best BKs in terms of their effort, love for God, simplicity, selflessness and purity).
The food problems across the world can be solved if the top 2% of wealthy who command around 50% of all the riches in the world donate just 1% of their income! But does that happen? Unfortunately not because inequality in the world is only rising and the problem of hunger is much deep rooted in poor governance, corruption, crime, lack of education, capitalism and so on ...
And it's not that they don't engage in any form of social service. They do in many Indian villages in drug and tobacco de-addiction programs, through medical wing at GHRC for health care and prison reform services.
And BKs do operate in villages. I had personally seen many small centres in villages and poor areas of India run by local Sisters without much facility (BTW, these are the places where I met some of the best BKs in terms of their effort, love for God, simplicity, selflessness and purity).
The food problems across the world can be solved if the top 2% of wealthy who command around 50% of all the riches in the world donate just 1% of their income! But does that happen? Unfortunately not because inequality in the world is only rising and the problem of hunger is much deep rooted in poor governance, corruption, crime, lack of education, capitalism and so on ...