+219 That new Get One Give One campaign from Fruit Roll-Ups is kinda stupid. I mean, you're sending laptops to children that might not have electricity or don't know how to use one. It would be better to send them books, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It would be better to send them items that teach them better ways to live in their enviroment. tools to help them grow food/hunt for food. Tools to help them start fire so they can boil their water, etc etc. We keep sending them things that are nice, but wont help them in the long run.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lol I understand what you're saying, but the way you stated it made me picture Africans as cavemen or something. A lot of Africans are actually quite used to technology, especially cell phones. They aren't in the stone age or anything

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lol i know but what does a cellphone do to give them food? a lot of their water is contaminated and they have no way to boil the germs out so they're forced to drink it. they dont have plant seeds, or garden tools so how can they grow food? Thats pretty much what i was trying to say but yea looking back on it it seems like a geico commercial lol "so easy a caveman could do it"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's funny how we think that all anyone in Africa needs is food, a house, clothes, and tools. It totally makes sense to send laptops to them because there are plenty of places in Africa where the basics are taken care of well enough and education is the next step that needs to be met.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sure they send the laptops to kids who have the necessary resources to use them. They don't just send them to random kids in hopes that they will be able to use them; that would just be stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or fruit roll ups

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, they just totally forgot about electricty. Good thing you pointed that out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago