In the west, people do organize a lot of events like running a marathon, sky diving or some challenging task to raise money for Children, Patients and Research. A lot of trusts and users are registered under this site JustGiving. A person participating in an event will update it there and anyone who wants to support him will deposit money to the persons just giving account which goes to Charity he is raising for directly.
Problem with Indians now is, we inferior people always feel that we are inferior to the west (and west never cares about Indians ) and always want to do whatever they do to satisfy our internal ego that even we are like them. We never strive for our own identity.
When we try to copy the act and not the cause we look more like m0r0n$ than civilised.
