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Q.
If you are so supportive of Charities why did you then
decide to support Charitable Projects established by yourself?
A. First, I have always been
supportive of Charitable good causes. Second, when I first ran the
London Marathon I thought it would be my first and last Marathon, since
that first time I find it difficult not to train on a daily basis
because I enjoy running. At first I decided to Auction one of my
Caribbean properties with the proceeds going to one charity, then I
realised that if I was to sell the property by dividing it into 52
Timeshare weeks then I could also run on behalf of other charities and include
those charities as beneficiaries of the Auction because I could
raise more money this way. Now I have desided that the best course to
take is to allow the property auction to benefit the Charitable Projects
I have and am continuing to establish and if a charity approaches me for
their support then I would allow them consideration as to whether they
qualify for such support.
Q. Will you host further Property
Auctions and will you include other Charities as beneficiaries?
A. If this Property Auction
proves to be successful then yes I am keen to repeat the process the
following year, it all depends on whether or not enough people support
this years Property Auction, if people don't want to bid for the
Timeshare weeks and help the Charitable good causes then
their would be no point in doing the same
next year.
Q. Why do you want to give away your
properties to Charitable Projects it seems a little over generous?
A. When I was 18 I worked as a
Community Service Volunteer and lived in a handicapped and deprived
Children's
home, caring for those children is and always will be the greatest and
most satisfying job a person could ever have, I was paid £4 a week and
lived and worked with those children 24/7. I learned one major thing
from that job, giving is far more important than receiving.
I believe I came into this world penniless
with no clothes on my back, I was bought up in a poor family home, I
plan to leave this world in the same way by ensuring that by the time I
die I will have already given away everything I own and hopefully
changed the lives of many of those sick and needy people in this world
which I aim to help. What I have achieved to date with this web site is
I believe, just the beginning.
Q. Why are you selling the Timeshare
weeks by way of a Property Auction.
A. If I sold the Timeshare
through the main stream media route then Charitable Projects would not
be acknowledged in such a load way. My aim is to encourage far more
people to give to Charitable Projects by way of my Property Auction and at the same time
let people experience what it feels like knowing that what they have
purchased has helped to educate children in Africa, children dying of
HIV and AIDS provided homes for abandoned children and much more.
I want to encourage the bidders of my
Property Auction to go on for the rest of their lives supporting
Charities and Charitable good causes, who knows, perhaps one day they
will donate a property of their own to charity.
Q. If you own so many properties, why
don't you just keep them and live comfortably in one of your Penthouses?
A. I am a Buddhist, I have been
so for over 20 years, perhaps I have been a Buddhist all my life, my
Buddhist name is "Dhammavihari" meaning the one who teaches
the words of the Lord Buddha. If I thought, lived and presented myself
perhaps like business men such as Sir Alan Sugar or Donald Trump then I
could not sincerely be a Buddhist. I would be more happy living in a
Buddhist Monastery for a year rather than live in one of my own
Penthouses. I am more happy running along the road rather than
riding in the back of a Rolls Royce.
I prefer to live a simple quiet life doing good
wherever and whenever I can.
I think that I have answered far too many questions
about me, more should be asked about all Charities in this world in the
hope that they will get more recognition and encourage more people to
give money to them.
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