Personally, I just do not have enough information to say whether it’s a legit charity or not. I have my doubts, as with most charities, simply because I cannot know for sure what exactly is being done with the money or assets collected, but I’d rather not judge.

However, assuming they actually do try to help children in need, I am still not a big fan. Assets in a fairly adult online game, which is nothing more or less than unnecessary luxury do not help children in need. And considering there’s an ingame-political, sov-holding, citadel-building, super-flying alliance attached to this, as well as some well known ingame multi-bajillionaires and real money traders, it kind of feels like a farce to protect their assets and ingame-power, as well as to make some money off the game after their previous money printers have been prohibited, rather than a sincere attempt to help children in need.

Real-world charities in my book have no place in the gameworld. While they may or may not be sincere, they do hurt the game itself. Care 4 Kids will only set a precedent, which will ultimately lead to people claiming this titan or that citadel is totally for charity (true story, bro!) to draw people on their side, both hurting the game and the credibility of charities overall. And even if Care 4 Kids may be legit, the copycats may not be.

It’s the same as the Olivia scam not too long ago: Even if it had been real, it would not have been a good thing, as it would have only served to entice people to play the role of a needy person to gain benefits in the game. Actually, it likely only happened because of the white knight mentality that took a hold of the game in the last couple of years.

And that is what Burn Jita is parodying: If you are against Burn Jita and try to prevent us from ganking, then you are against charity, and a despicable person! For realz, true story! Think of the children!

Problem is, that Care4kids claim to have a “charitable registration status” with Swedish Revenue Agency. But in order to able to run a charity, you are required to show your registration number and disclose all details about your organisation. Care4kids does not, and have never, had a “charitable registration status” because they simply does not exist as such.

I have checked with the official databases where charitable organisations are required to be listed, and Care4Kids or it’s “official name” The Care for Kids EVE Foundation does not exist. Can’t be found in the Revenue Agency’s database, nor in the charity organisation database.

They are simply not a charity organisation. They just claim to be.
I can’t say anything about wether they actually help kids or not, I don’t have enough information for that. But they aren’t a real charity org as they claim.

All charity organisations within EU are required to publically disclose registration numbers, contact details and show verification of registration.

Why Sweden you ask? Owners of their website is Swedish, even though they registered it in UK.

I think C4 collecting ISK for buying time for kids in long term hospital situations is totally legit and should be honored as a good thing. It’s a good thing he does. Although it is not as needed as it was before, thanks for Alphas/free EVE.

The labels of “scam”, “charity”,”charity shield”, and “cancer kids” all that is loose terms thrown around to make sense of it. If anything, the people that talk and think about this are too fast with words and just use it to fight each other. I also think C4 was not careful to keep the effort to help kids separate from ingame politics, but thats not a big deal.

C4 was/is doing a great thing for kids and for EVE consciousness in general.