Charity

From being at school and now uni I have always been subject to lots of charity events however it has often occured to me that people often have many different reasons for participating in events primarily to raise money for charity. An example of my own would be having a non-school uniform day but quite often I think many people do not care much about the charity the money is going towards and simply are doing it for their own benefit so is this actually being charitable? and why don't we just give me a pound to charity for no reasons at all. It seems we live in a society where we simply do not give something for nothing.

Another example that I feel is quite bad is that people often go to events for charity with a dress up theme and it makes me laugh when I see quite a large amount of people who have quite obviously spent far more on their costume than money they have actually given to charity. This 'charity' we see often extends far beyond a simple pound for non-uniform though and huge events such as red nose day and make poverty history events I feel are quite often filled with celebrities who do not care too much about making awareness but more about getting more publicity. I realise this is a slightly controversial thing to bring up but it seems to me that celebrities who could quite happily give large sums of money to charity and get no media coverage for doing so seem to be lacking and indeed not just celebrities but almost all of us doing so called charitable things with underlying reasons.