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We'd never expected that the box would be stolen. We're sorry for failing to deliver the support provided by residents.

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A spokesperson for the Oi town office in Kanagawa Prefecture, referring to the theft in December of a donation box to raise funds for Ukrainians that had been set up at a town hall. It had been collecting monetary donations since last August.

© Mainichi Shimbun

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This is precisely the problem, taking donations means taking also the responsibility of protecting them, not thinking that they could be stolen is not a justification, it just says the town office did not did what it was supposed to do.

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Low-hanging fruit...

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You don't need to make a charitable donation. If you're a tax-payer, you're already donating.

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Oi! What are you doing?

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The donations would have been placed into a Urkaian account.

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