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Volunteering to help build a playground for kids is admirable. It's something they can use. After this guy is done being movie-of-the-week, no one will care about the ship- and the kids will go back to their graphic video games and television.
Sure, he may have sparked some humanitarians... but how many FAMILIES could he have helped, in the same amount of volunteer time, doing something more constructive and useful? The homeless aren't just single people, or people with no children.
You all wanna help kids so damn much? Teach them it is better to help others, than build something STUPID and USELESS and then go back to your nice home with enough food in it, and feel good about yourself for wasting time doing NOTHING OF VALUE TO SOCIETY.
If nothing else, my general dislike ("hate" is such a strong word) for children should resonate a little louder on this topic. Despite that, I want the future generations of children to realize that there are people on this planet who aren't as comfy as they are- and I don't want to hear about how hard anyone has it. Until you're living in a cardboard box in an alley, you're not worse off... and there's still someone out there who would kill for a box to live in.
(Side note, to preemptively dispel notions to the contrary- I, nor anyone I know personally, has ever been homeless. This is not personal, it's about teaching the right things.)
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