I received the following email today, it is regarding my work and investigative report of Mother Teresa's international charity which
is fraught with medical negligence and financial fraud. I usually don't
get a lot of these, but I was not going to just ignore this one. Take a
look at the message sent to me and my response to this individual:
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx
To: xxxxxx@xxxxxx
Sent: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 3:34 am
Subject: New Contact Message
I
am outraged. You do not have any say in how the Missionaries of Charity
operate, especially when some of your photographs of India's "poorest
of the poor" are being SOLD to fund your own personal life as an
"independent artist". Disgusting. Have you ever even cleaned and
bandaged a wound with maggots crawling in it? Have you ever changed a
woman who is on her period and blood is all over her clothing? Have you
ever been defecated on?? Think of it. And then think of Indian life. You
just don't get it do you. Try a little humility and empathy before you
LASH OUT and try to make a buck. OH, also try taking care of the poor
for more than 2 months.
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xxxxx,
Try READING more about me before lashing out ignorantly.
I
currently live in Kolkata, I work in the slums everyday with the
poorest of the poor, I make seriously little money through my photos,
I've managed to save some money by working hard for a while back at home
before returning to India to positively change the lives of people in
serious need. Here's the link to my own charity: http://www.facebook.com/responsiblecharity
I've
cleaned blood, mucus, I've been defecated on by the destitute of India,
picked live maggots out of wounds for hours and cremated more than a
dozen men and women while working with the incredibly archaic and often
inefficient Missionaries of Charity. Damn right I have a right to
question how these monsters operate and shame on you for blindly adoring
these nuns and thinking you are actually doing something good by
keeping your mouth shut.
I
usually don't answer stupid mail such as yours, don't get a lot if
anyway, but you actually epitomize a big part of the problem, the
volunteer who continues to glorify this fraudulent and outdated
organization, while actually hurting those they claim to help by keeping
them in these museums of poverty.
If
you want to truly make a difference, start by demanding that the
Missionaries of Charity report every single dollar they have received in
donations until today and how all the funds have really been applied,
if they do so, the world will discover they've been quite busy
propagating their religious dogma while "patching" some of the issues of
poverty instead of looking for viable solutions to END poverty with the
millions and millions of dollars received from their unsuspecting
donors.
Again,
READ. You will discover hundreds of links from reporters, volunteers,
journalists, some doctors, nurses and even nuns who themselves have left
what is essentially a cult.
The monumental negligence of this organization is in fact impossible to ignore.
Hemley Gonzalez
STOP The Missionaries of Charity
