DIY SOS undeserving

[shopper]

Did anyone watch DIY sos on Thursday. Their house was wrecked in the widespread floods during the summer, but because they were foster parents, and their propery was UNINSURED, the BBC went in and did a complete make over for them, making it into a real sob story.
I feel sorry for the plight of everyone who this happened to, but the people featured in this show didnt pay the insurance. As foster carers they are very, very, well paid. So therefore they could afford the insurance money.
Why didnt the BBC choose someone who really deserved the help.
I thought I was being mean spirited, until someone else was talking about the programme today, and thought the same as me.

[Ethel]

I can't imagine why you believe foster carers are 'very, very well paid' - they aren't.

But in any case DIY SOS doesn't operate on merit or need - it is simply cheap tv.

[twinklestar7]

My parents fostered children and they certainly aren't well paid.

Also decent foster parenst spend the 'foster' money they get on clothes, food and toys for the children, NOT to pay bills!!!

Unless you were one of the people who suffered in these dreadful floods, you wouldn't know the stress, hardship and suffering these people are going through.

Have some respect for these people and a heart!!

A flood survivor from Evesham

[almcd007]

Living in the same town as this episode I can speak with a little authority on this issue, the area concerned was not a wealthy area with many of the houses concerned the occupants were people on benefits/low income. Now lets not tar the people with no home/contents insurance with the people with no car insurance. To many of the these people this had never happened before and there was no telling it was going to happen this time. Its not a legal requirement to have contents insurance - only buildings if you have a mortgage. A lot of these people would be paying the council rent.

The emergency disaster fund did not go very far at all to replace any of their goods ruined in the floods and this programme went a little way to giving a lot of these people (who are still in caravans at christmas) a bit of hope.

[Caribeing]

DIYSOS
Apart from this particular incident there are many
Tv programmes solving problems 60 minute makeove deal or no deal christmas special it baffles me how all these subjects are chosen I know of many deserving causes which are never mentioned one of my family cares without complaint for his 19yr old daughter suffering with uncurable brain damage but then I suppose i can't complain because I haven't nominated him
Replies please

[rotti]

They made it quite clear at the start of the programme that many families with and without insurance were affected and they asked the locals who they felt was most deserving. They also did a project at the community hall to help the whole town and got a donation of furniture for a lady who'd had a particlarly bad year losing her husband and sister as well as being flooded out of her home!
Nick 'The Love God' Knowles said that they couldn't help everyone but is seems that they did get a concensus of opinion as to who should be helped.
Perhaps almcd007 could confirm this.

In any case, I wish everyone good luck. What a terrible thing to happen, insured or not. I wouldn't like to be in that situation!

[almcd007]

Even if you had insurance - people who were adequately covered lost so much that was irreplaceable. A hard working family have been displaced, living in rented accommodation (albeit paid by the insurance company) since last summer. The children had no schools for a while and their life was turned upside down. There were not just a couple of people affected there were hundreds of familys running into thousands of people - some still living in donated caravans on large fields with little or none or their previous posessions. The work on their houses (some houses are a total loss) has been delayed for months for "drying out" and some are still waiting for work to commence. It's a terrible situation to find yourself in through no fault of your own.

People who have not lived in affected areas will see other things on their local news that affect them and not any of the hardship these families have gone and are still going through. In a way they have been forgotton about by all but everyone around them.

[adamhornsby]

I wonder if these people were from Toll Bar, if they were thats not too close from where i came from, and since you dont know half of the stories of the people who live there, as if they have been through enough, and then theres you saying they dont deserve it.

[almcd007]

Hi Adam
The people in the programme were from Toll bar but also affected were, Bentley, Scawthorpe, Arksey & even Thorpe in Balne as I'm sure you know.

[adamhornsby]

No, i didn t see it, but i presumed they were from Toll Bar. And these people are more than deserving, especially the people my dad has been doing work for. Think about this shopper before you come out with such a silly comment- one lady we know lost her husband last year, and now these floods?
another old couple, still living in a caravan now after their bungalow was totally gutted, their caravan they first got that they loaded up was nicked by undeserving gypos, he is ill with legionaires disease and arthiritus and a company who were going to dry all their photos out, but never got round to doing it, so all their pictures of their wedding and family, all gone, not something you can replace. Fortunately their bungalow is getting drier with only 1 dehumidifier, and soon they'l be able to get the repairs done.