What is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution doing in Tanzania and Bangladesh?
Mon 3:20 pm +00:00, 18 Nov 2024 4The Royal No So National Lifeboat Institution
Those who imagine that the RNLI is a national organisation, working only in the waters around the British Isles are greatly mistaken. They also provide creches in Bangladesh and swimming lessons in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhcvS1UylnA
It’s another “charity” begging for donations. I visit a Lancashire seaside town regularly to visit my 34 year old mother in law. There is a brand new lifeboat station there which was started during covid and is only just finished
Doh, 94 year old mother in law
Just one problem, it’s not directly on the coastline! I bet it cost a tidy packet too. Never ceases to amaze me, every time I drive past
I think it’s time the RNLI and it’s trustees and directors were forensically audited. I would also suggest they need reporting for misleading their donors. Having every high street canvasser wearing body cams may also be a good idea. You can then have some kind of quality control to ensure the RNLI is accurately described and portrayed and where the funds go is fully explained. Donors need to know exactly what the RNLI is and stands for. Basically give transparency to donors. Maybe a name change to RILI or Royal International Lifeboat Institution is long overdue.
Surely the lifeboat folks are due the Charlemagne prize this year.