Telethon is a beneficial massive T.V. event that is focused on raising money for an institution that helps children with physical and mental disabilities. Telethon has reunited the Chilean people since it was made by Mario Kreutzberger A.K.A. Don Francisco as we all know him, Don in his case is used for making him an image closer to people, a gentle man that helps people. Telethon started on The United States but then many countries shared the idea and made their own event. The first Telethon on south America was brought by Mario Kreutzberger and then other countries took the initiative to make one on their own.

Telethon is called “The 27 hours of love” and it’s broadcasted 27 hours by all channels, the first one on Chile tried to raise 1 million dollars that meant something like 34 million pesos, but the final count showed 84 millions beating by far the goal.
We have had a special edition of Telethon this year to help the victims of an 8,8 earthquake that almost have disappear towns completely. It was used for helping on rebuilding Chile.

On the other side, an my personal opinion is a massive political event, where some people from the minority side that gets all the money can show themselves and use it to broadcast their products. Companies donates money publically but no one say that this money is on a donation law, and it is subtracted from the taxes they have to pay every month, so there is no “pain” on giving it for this event. They use it to show their publicity and get profits of it. Another thing is how much do they pay to T.V. hosts and artists. I don’t know if this is a fact but I’ve read that 25% of the money raised is to pay the people working on it and that a 5 % is directly to Mario Kreutzberger pocket. There is no lottery ticket that pays that to a winner if we think that raises this event is spoken as billions.
Also they pretend that the money raised is less than they really have, between certain hours the countdown is always lower than it should be, and as by magic between the 10 P.M and 1 A.M the countdown raises a lot.

As a conclusion I think that Telethon is just one more business from this whole disguise party. People may say that theleton is the only one and bigger organization that helps people with physical and mental problems, but we must not forget that there are other institutions that make a similar job, as “the rotary club” and “el club de leones” located in many parts of Chile, they do not make a massive show like Don Francisco but that does not mean they are unimportant. Big institutions will always end up as a business even churches, I have been watching the rebuilding of “el santuario de nuesta Teresa de los andes” for years, and they’re still asking for money…