Cecil wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:05:22 +0530 From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: goanet@goanet.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet]Is it ethical to buy second hand clothes that were sent as aid? Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org
The 'purumentachem' (hope I got that right!) fair is on in Panjim. Basically a fair to buy provisions for the monsoons. Of course like every previous year the actual 'provision' hawkers are few and what is being sold is the regular knickknacks available at all fairs.
What struck me as curious this year is the sheer number of hawkers selling 'aid' clothes*.......
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*The amount of clothes collected here in Australia itself was so much that it would have been just too much to give away to the tsunami affected people, who needed other things besides clothes, which happen to be the easiest things to part with.
So the surplus clothes are auctioned off to the highest bidder, and the money so collected is then utilized where most needed.
Hope this explanation would help your conscience. You have done nothing unethical. Indirectly, you may have actually helped some of the tsunami affected people with your purchase.
Cheers!
