Think......Before You Donate To Japan

[shygye]

In Japan,

 

1) Over 10000 dead.

2) Devastation of hundreds of sq. miles.

3) Over 500000 homeless.

4) Lack of food, water, medicine, body bags, and coffins.

Since early Friday morning when the earthquake struck off shore, triggering a tsunami that spanned the entire Pacific Basin, the American Red Cross has been in close contact with its colleagues in the region to offer our support. Given widespread damage and enormous humanitarian needs, the Japanese Red Cross indicated that it would accept financial support from the American Red Cross for its role providing first aid, emotional support and relief items to those displaced.

 

and this

 

 

In Japan, local Red Cross nurses are offering counseling and emotional support to those in need. Emotional support will be one of the greatest needs in the weeks and months ahead given thousands of people have been traumatized and are in a state of shock. The Japanese Red Cross specialist helicopter team is helping evacuate people from affected areas, and is transporting medicine and food to hospitals.

 

The Japanese Red Cross Society has repeatedly expressed its gratitude for the support of the American Red Cross and people in the United States.

 

"The compassion the American people have demonstrated over the past week through their generous support to the American Red Cross is incredibly uplifting at a time when we are dealing with a such an immense humanitarian tragedy, said Satoshi Sugai, director, Disaster Relief for the Japanese Red Cross. “This financial support is very much needed and continues to be welcomed to help the hundreds of thousands of lives that will forever be changed by this disaster.†...

 

[bust]

Do I understand correctly that you agree with me?

[doxx]

I simply do not trust these Thai run donations. I saw one in Pattaya the other day showing pictures of gruesome looking dead bodies and asking money. My impression was of the usual scamming and scheming Thais grabbing the money, I mean: they even looked like a bunch of taxi drivers...

[TheCorinthian]

I was originally brought to the attention of this when I got my hands on a copy of the World Vision Austraila's 2006/7 financials.

 

For the Boxing Day Tsunami Appeal they collected AU$107 million Funds spent on relief were AU$29 million.

 

The Japanese have a tremendous amount of resources to deal with this type of situation, and I think a lot of the outside help will be in the way of logistics more than humanatarian aid which is what most people relate these types of organisations to.

 

 

It's not surprising. In the US a non-profit charity has to publish to the IRS what is called "pass through." That is, what % of money given goes to run the charity vs. to the people in need. Anything that has a 75% or better "pass through" is really pretty good. The US Red Cross never came close for a long time

 

Then this happened:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#September_11_controversy

 

 

When that got out that over 50% of the almost $1b collected would not go to 9-11, people were fired and could never get a job again. And giving to them when into the toilet for a few years. Now the red cross is capped at a 90% pass through by charter in the US and they tend to stay pretty close to it.

 

 

That said, I would NEVER give much over 20bht to a thai charity in thailand. I know better.

[Bangkoktraveler]

I used to look at the sneekers in Thailand that advertised 2 pair for 99 baht. They were brand names, large size. Odd thought. It turned out 'Americans' were sending to Cambodia for free their expensive sneakers. They were too big for them so they sold them to the Thais. The Thais sold some of them to me so I could return them to 'America'.

 

Did any of the intended people get helped? Probably not.

 

Very similiar situation happened to the poor people of the Boxer Day earthquake.

[bust]

Here is an interesting story about the Red Cross.

 

An ABC Four Corners report about the ‘Red Cross’ involvement in the WWF hostages saga in 1996 and the resulting slaughter of the indigenous peoples of West Papua!

 

Deep in the rainforests of West Papua a story is emerging of a brutal massacre of the innocent native peoples of West Papua. A documentary about the WWF hostage taking in 1996 and investigating allegations of Red Cross involvement in a massacre. Mark Davis investigates allegations about the role of the International Red Cross and the British military in a massacre in the Southern Highlands of West Papua in May 1996. The story of what happened has never been told before.

 

Watch Here

http://akrockefeller.com/tag/wwf/

[buddha]

What is the impact in th therame?

 

Empty? Full?

[LizardKing]

Dunno about Thermae. But last night I saw that the Thais have a little kiosk (for want of a better word) at the entry to the immigration hall with cute nurses and odd looking machines and signs asking you to stop there if you came thru Japan. I did not, so I did not...

[kamui]

In Japan,

 

1) Over 10000 dead.

2) Devastation of hundreds of sq. miles.

3) Over 500000 homeless.

4) Lack of food, water, medicine, body bags, and coffins.

Since early Friday morning when the earthquake struck off shore, triggering a tsunami that spanned the entire Pacific Basin, the American Red Cross has been in close contact with its colleagues in the region to offer our support. Given widespread damage and enormous humanitarian needs, the Japanese Red Cross indicated that it would accept financial support from the American Red Cross for its role providing first aid, emotional support and relief items to those displaced.

 

and this

 

 

In Japan, local Red Cross nurses are offering counseling and emotional support to those in need. Emotional support will be one of the greatest needs in the weeks and months ahead given thousands of people have been traumatized and are in a state of shock. The Japanese Red Cross specialist helicopter team is helping evacuate people from affected areas, and is transporting medicine and food to hospitals.

 

The Japanese Red Cross Society has repeatedly expressed its gratitude for the support of the American Red Cross and people in the United States.

 

"The compassion the American people have demonstrated over the past week through their generous support to the American Red Cross is incredibly uplifting at a time when we are dealing with a such an immense humanitarian tragedy, said Satoshi Sugai, director, Disaster Relief for the Japanese Red Cross. “This financial support is very much needed and continues to be welcomed to help the hundreds of thousands of lives that will forever be changed by this disaster.†...

 

We have a lot of partners and friends in Japan and since the earthquake we have been in contact with almost all of them.

 

One of our partners has lost everything. Her village including her house and her studio has been wiped out by the Tsunami. Last year I visited her village near Sendai Airport and today I learnt that two of three kids I met there have died.

 

Our company is planning to make a donation directly to the village, though we do not know yet to which organization to give the money to.

[bust]

Our company is planning to make a donation directly to the village, though we do not know yet to which organization to give the money to.

 

Give it to the village not an organization. She must have someone there you can send funds to.