[ppaul]

During June, July, and August groups of 10 kids stay for nine days at a time and spend the time doing chores and learning the basics of handling horses.

The couple put up about $1.5 million of their own money for the land, and private and corporate sponsors joined in with $25 million. Listeners who gave $5,000 got their names etched in stone tablets in the foyer of the ranchs adobe hacienda...

Isn't philanthropy great?

[stands2reason]

What a sweet deal. A huge ranch on the cheap, and every summer, you have free child labor.

Why didn't I think of it?

[johnnyb_61820]

My son goes to a year-round special needs school that teaches 40 kids, and their annual budget is only $1 million. Why on earth to people give to things like this rather than real needs?

If anyone is interested the school is The Little Light House, and it is a completely tuition-free private preschool for special needs kids, which takes no government money nor United Way money.