Originally posted by browniebaobao:
I believe the Ah Ge Ah Jie are also paid about the same amount la.
I hope not. What is the meaning of a "Charity show" "Chi Shan Yuan Chu"?
Anyway, from now on, I will not donate to any charity shows be it Ren Ci, President Star Charity or NKF, unless the telecoms, the artists (both Local and Overseas), MC and Mediacorp declare they are not charging the donators or the recipient anything more than some allowance. Allowance can be lunch allowance of $4 per meal or transport allowance like taxi claim. However, airplane ticket transport claim by overseas artists is not allowed. Instead, the airtickets can be sponsored by SIA, Valueair or whatever airline. Same with the meals if Mac or KFC wants to sponsor.
As for prize sponsorship, I will prefer the recipient of the prize be the charity and the name of the "winner" say Ms. Tan Ah Koy be announced so that she be glorified in name and not in prize. The sponsor can say, "We are donating this $100,000 to charity X in name of Ms. Tan Ah Koy from Ang Mo Kio St 11". Ms. Tan can be there to personally handover the check to charity x. What do you think?