Joy is good, even when common sense would indicate that maybe the monies should be better spent on the neccesary nuts and bolts.
Like this story:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022750134_schooljerseyxml.html
But you see how happy the kids are, it all seems right.
Of coarse, the teacher didn't decide that he had to go to the SuperBowl to get the jerseys himself. Or seek funds so he could go to the SuperBowl to increase "awareness" that there are poor kids in the world.
The most disgusting example of ego wrapped in charity is Ranulph Fiennes - the Worlds Greatest Explorer and "The Coldest Journey" ( http://www.thecoldestjourney.org ), which failed to drive Cats across the Antarctic in winter. It cost about $6 million, and raised either $2M or $10M, in both cases not a good return on the dollar