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Sorry to disagree with everyone else, but there is only one way in which to guarantee your donation will be used in the way you intended, offer it to a charity with strict instructions on its usage. There are many ways to do this, the most common is leaving a donation in your Last Will & Testament with clear requirements that must be met for the donation to be used. Another way, if the donation is large enough, is to specify what you want to do with it, for example I wish to ‘purchase lifesupport equipment for the children’s hospital’ with this large donation.All other forms of donation, no matter how good the intention, will be classed as ‘untied income’ and used by the charity as they see fit. Even gifts in kind are sold to raise funds and the cash raised is treated as untied income. If the charity is well managed then this isn’t an issue and untied income allows the charity to spend the money how it sees fit for the charity and those it supports. But for most charities, if you don’t want your donations being spent on staff wages, or new offices, donating with fixed requirements is the way to go.

DD Podhigai telecasted an interview with Mr P M Nair, (retired IAS officer, who was the Secretary to Dr. Abdul Kalam when he was the President).I summarise the points he spoke in a voice choked with emotion.Mr Nair authored a book titled “The Kalam Effect”Dr. Kalam used to receive costly gifts whenever he went abroad as it is customary for many nations to give gifts to the visiting Heads of State. Refusing the gift would become an insult to the nation and an embarrassment for India. So, he received them and on his return, Dr. Kalam asked the gifts to be photographed and then catalogued and handed over to the archives. Afterwards, he never even looked at them. He did not take even a pencil from the gifts received when he left Rashtrapathi Bhavan.In 2002, the year Dr. Kalam took over as President of India, the Ramadan month came in July-August. It was a regular practice for the President to host an Iftar party. Dr Kalam asked Mr Nair why he should host a party to people who are already well fed and asked him to find out how much would be the cost. Mr Nair told it would cost around Rs. 22 lakhs. Dr. Kalam asked him to donate that amount to a few selected orphanages in the form of food, dresses and blankets. The selection of orphanages was left to a team in Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Dr. Kalam had no role in it. After the selection was made, Dr. Kalam asked Mr Nair to come inside his room and gave him a cheque for Rs 1 lakh. He said that he was giving some amount from his personal savings and this should not be informed to anyone. Mr Nair was so shocked that he said "Sir, I will go outside and tell everyone. People should know that here is a man who not only donated what he should have spent but he is giving his own money also". Dr. Kalam though he was a devout Muslim did not have Iftar parties in the years in which he was the President.Dr Kalam did not like "Yes Sir" type of people. Once when the Chief Justice of India had come and on some point Dr Kalam expressed his view and asked Mr Nair, "Do you agree?" Mr Nair said "No Sir, I do not agree with you". The Chief Justice was shocked and could not believe his ears. It was impossible for a civil servant to disagree with the President and that too so openly. Mr Nair told him that the President would question him afterwards why he disagreed and if the reason was logical 99% he would change his mind.Dr. Kalam invited 50 of his relatives to come to Delhi and they all stayed in Rashtrapathi Bhavan. He organised a bus for them to go around the city which was paid for by him. No official car was used. All their stay and food was calculated as per the instructions of Dr. Kalam and the bill came to Rs 2 lakhs which he paid. In the history of this country no one has done it. Now, wait for the climax, Dr. Kalam's elder brother stayed with him in his room for the entire one week as Dr Kalam wanted his brother to stay with him. When they left, Dr. Kalam wanted to pay rent for that room also. Imagine the President of a country paying rent for the room in which he is staying. This was any way not agreed to by the staff who thought the honesty was getting too much to handle!!!When Dr. Kalam was to leave Rashtrapathi Bhavan at the end of his tenure, every staff member went and met him and paid their respects. Mr Nair went to him alone as his wife had fractured her leg and was confined to bed. Dr. Kalam asked why his wife did not come. He replied that she was in bed due to an accident. Next day, Mr. Nair saw lot of policemen around his house and asked what had happened. They said that the President of India was coming to visit him in his house. He came and met his wife and chatted for some time. Mr Nair says that no president of any country would visit a civil servant's house and that too on such a simple pretext. I thought I should give the details as many of you may not have seen the telecast and so it may be useful. The younger brother of Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam runs an umbrella repairing shop. When Mr. Nair met him during Dr. Kalam’s funeral, he touched his feet, in token of respect for both Mr. Kalam and Brother.Source : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mr-pm-nair-ias-secretary-president-india-late-dr-apj-abdul-r-r

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