Luxury car drive may send wrong message to children

I refer to the report “Less privileged children get driven around in luxury cars” (Sept 28).

While it is laudable that the organisers care for underprivileged children, showing care via ostentatious luxury can send a message that counters the objective of breaking the cycle of intergenerational offending.

At best, this event upgrades the children temporarily to be privileged ones showered with material comforts instead of the time and effort required to care through character building and understanding.

I am aware of the organisers’ other corporate social responsibility programmes such as scholarships, which genuinely centre around the recipients. This event, however, seems to achieve the sponsors’ marketing objectives at the expense of the beneficiaries’ understanding of what it takes to lead a responsible, self-reliant life.