Helping others feels way better than a spa day!
May 23, 2008 – 1:51 pmI am not writing much here but I am making things move. I seem inspired by the sun that is coming out and the flowers that are sprouting all over the garden.
This week I did a bit of whistle blowing in one of the world’s largest corporations using information for people who live on opposite sides of the world. The culprit is neither of the parties but a different one in the middle who is using fear and intimidation to steal from some of the world’s poorest people in a immigration scam that just blows my mind. Sure it’s a juicy story but the media is not competent enough to pick the important issues it raises and would turn it into a story that sells paper based on the lowest common denominator’s fears and xenophobia. It is only a juicy story if the super huge company does not investigate the problem and fix it immediately. I have only ever encountered very professional and forthright people there, I really respect them for having a separate corporate entity in my country and having WAY higher social responsibility and standards in Canada than in the USA. I have no reason to suspect that their total horror upon learning of this scam is a facade. I have even written a suggestion on preventing this from happening in the future. It is unbelievably simple to implement however, it may encounter political barriers from old hats who resist corporate transparency.
I am specifically doing this for a friend I have known for almost 20 years. All he wants is for his sweetheart to find her way to him through legal immigration channels. Neither care where they wind up in the world in the end, they just want to be together. He is a paraplegic political refugee and as such feels stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to getting out there and making a change. He is even legally prevented from contributing his hard earned scientific brilliance and academic feats by doing something as simple as WORKING. I want to show him that it is not money that prevents people from taking on big projects. I am a huge plan where he is concerned but for the moment I rack my brain to think who I will call upon to make it happen and how. Maybe it will be as simple as asking YOU random people on the Internet to help us and not some Gazillionnaire with unlimited power, money and technology.
But for now, my reward is doing something absolutely pointless today!
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Tags: advocacy, Friends, immigration, LOLCat, scam, whistleblowing
