Marc, a gentleman PoC contributor living in Switzerland, is in the news! He is mentioned in a local newspaper, The Bishop Press which is “Bishop Auckland’s Community Newspaper”. PoC, the website, got in as well and it is all because of Ruth and Barbara’s fund raising for Cats Protection. Here is the scanned page. I have highlighted the reference to Marc.
It is our pleasure Babz. Many thanks to you and Ruth. You are great cat advocates. Sorry I have been too busy today doing all kinds of things (work really) that have taken me away from doing another post. I may be able to do one later this evening.
Many huge thanks again to Marc for his generous donation and to Michael for bringing us all together via POC
I like to call him ‘our Marc’
Here in the North ‘our’ is a word we use for our loved ones, I’ll say ‘our Barbara’ she will say ‘our Ruth’
So the lovely people here are ‘our PoC family’
lol
I wouldn’t call Marc a wealthy patron, I’d call him a hard working compassionate and kind man who saves up and uses his savings to help cats in need.
Truly wealthy people don’t often help others, they like to hang on to their wealth and add more to it.
I’ve found that the people who have known financial hardship themselves often give more than those who are well off.
People who have always been well off don’t understand the concept of being poor.
Didn’t Marie Antoinette centuries ago, say of the poor ‘So they have no bread, then let them eat cake’
Things haven’t changed that much as there are still very privileged rich people and still poor people struggling.
I say thank goodness for the compassionate, kind and generous people like Marc and Michael here too.
I know you are British but it sounds good to attach Switzerland to your name 😉 More glamour. From now on you’ll be “that kind Swiss man”.
I’m British really though Michael, in all but nationality. 🙂
Everybody here is very kind – Ruth and Babs did great getting out there and doing a fundraiser. It’s the sort of thing I wish I could have the time to do. I like to be a part of it. Next time Ruth and Babs do a fundraiser I’d like to do a matching donation again. Since I’m busy and in Switzerland then my role will have to remain as such 🙂