Hi Yuyutsu.

According to dad, his only addiction at that time in his life was avoiding particularly lethal mountain guns and the bayonets of the Imperial Japanese army. He had never had a cup of coffee at that stage, and the Salvos were not serving it, just a cuppa tea, at just the right time and the right place.

Glad to know Prompete, and Merry Christmas to you!

Yuyutsu. And seasons best for your good self and all those close to you.

The Salvo's are there because they are getting paid from the taxpayers purse Millions of dollars. I applaud the average salvo volunteer but have total disgust for the high salary executives.

If you think the salvos are a worthy cause ask to see the salary and expense accounts of the senior management (bet they won't show you)
The volunteers do great work for little or no money so the executives can live a life of luxury.

They get away with it because they count the volunteers as workers so the amount of money received as opposed to salaries looks low.

Equate the money received to the actual salaried employees and the figure would look completely different.

Also if an organization donates say 1,000 T shirts for free the charities give it away but they give it an estimated value of $10 so in there books they say they gave away $10 x 1,000 = $10,000 worth of charity when in reality they gave nothing away. Smoke and mirrors by charities.
This trick make the total percentage given away by comparison to donations received look good - a good illusion.

Hi there PHILIP S...

I believe you're right on the money there, when you say those at the top of the Salvo's are well paid. They are riding on the good fame and reputation of their many volunteers, without them, they'd amount to nothing.

Cheers...Sung Wu.

A couple of decades ago a UK undercover media investigation into the Salvos, showed that unless a homeless person could pay three english pounds sterling, then there was no bed in the shelter for them.
It also revealed that only 14% of the monetry contributions the Salvos receive, go towards their welfare work.