Sponsor a child in Africa

lukep said:
Sending money to a place you've never been, presumably to solve problems that you can't imagine is just foolish. You literally can do more damage than good, in more ways than one...
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Let me correct you here: sending your money to a random local charity you've NEVER heard about = foolish.

Sending money to renowned and highly audited organizations like UNICEF, World Vision, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, etc is a totally different story. With the money they raise they can send people to the field help the locals build schools, send basic medical supplies, vaccines, help in terms of digging wells, farming, basic education etc... that SHIT takes money dude. Trained international workers need to be paid, in dollars!

Now of course the best thing would be to go there yourself and try to help by giving your own time, teaching etc... but if you can't do that, I believe the next best thing is giving to a reputable organization that is heavily scrutinized by international media so they HAVE to do somewhat of a good job or they'd be flamed.
 


avatar33 said:
Let me correct you here: sending your money to a random local charity you've NEVER heard about = foolish.

Sending money to renowned and highly audited organizations like UNICEF, World Vision, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, etc is a totally different story. With the money they raise they can send people to the field help the locals build schools, send basic medical supplies, vaccines, help in terms of digging wells, farming, basic education etc... that SHIT takes money dude. Trained international workers need to be paid, in dollars!

Now of course the best thing would be to go there yourself and try to help by giving your own time, teaching etc... but if you can't do that, I believe the next best thing is giving to a reputable organization that is heavily scrutinized by international media so they HAVE to do somewhat of a good job or they'd be flamed.
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that's like saying the government is better suited to handle our affairs because they are bigger than us and have presence on the world stage. If you can't do it your self your local church or a church in your community will have a mission where they collect money go over there and build/educate/what ever the fuck else they do better than unicef, red cross, etc.
 
avatar33 said:
Sending money to renowned and highly audited organizations like UNICEF, World Vision, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, etc is a totally different story.
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A couple of those on your list helped Americans send millions of tons of grain and other foods to Haitians after their quake a couple years back... Hmm... Anyone remember what happened to all that food?

Such organizations will always be run by bleeding heart liberals that have lots of heart but no brains at all.


avatar33 said:
Now of course the best thing would be to go there yourself and try to help by giving your own time, teaching etc... but if you can't do that, I believe the next best thing is giving to a reputable organization that is heavily scrutinized by international media so they HAVE to do somewhat of a good job or they'd be flamed.
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Nonesuch exists, at least not to my standards.

Any charity not done in person is frankly not efficient and risks harm. And if you don't go yourself, how do you know you'd WANT to give these people anything? Who's to say you show up and the people you would have been helping turn out to be scam artists or a den of child-molestering thieves? UNICEF can't tell you what their personal lifestyle choices are. You might be sending money to someone you'd want dead. The point is that you won't know.

And don't even get me started on the whole zen thing. There have been cases where people who survived on such handouts grew up to be mass murdering warlords and of course jihadists. Way to go, terrorism sponsors!

So if you don't want to travel to Botswana and meet some starving children there to sponsor yourself, the sensible thing to do is to sponsor someone or something closer to home. You can take a trip to the local inner-city and do something great there.
 
jonas33h said:
that's like saying the government is better suited to handle our affairs because they are bigger than us and have presence on the world stage. If you can't do it your self your local church or a church in your community will have a mission where they collect money go over there and build/educate/what ever the fuck else they do better than unicef, red cross, etc.
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Your 1st phrase makes absolutely no sense so I'll just skip it.

Now what makes you think your church will do a better job than UNICEF, World Vision or the Red Cross? These organizations have trained employees and decades of experience in the field. They have installations in place and staff year-round.

For instance, UNICEF, in partnership with other major organizations, has eradicated Polio from the face of the planet. Ask your priest if he can do better than that.

lukep said:
Any charity not done in person is frankly not efficient and risks harm. And if you don't go yourself, how do you know you'd WANT to give these people anything? Who's to say you show up and the people you would have been helping turn out to be scam artists or a den of child-molestering thieves? UNICEF can't tell you what their personal lifestyle choices are. You might be sending money to someone you'd want dead. The point is that you won't know.

And don't even get me started on the whole zen thing. There have been cases where people who survived on such handouts grew up to be mass murdering warlords and of course jihadists. Way to go, terrorism sponsors!
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Congratulations Luke, you have just reached Paranoia Level 97, keep it up and you might end up living in a cave! :2drinkspit:

Man, of course if I knew that the little girl I'm sponsoring would turn out to become a child molester I'd stop sending money right away. Just like if you knew that your future son would be a rapist you'd probably wear a motherfuckin condom too. Come on Luke, you can't live your life imagining that everything will turn out for the worst. These children need basic humanitarian help: vaccines, food, clean water, basic education. No child is a criminal and they all deserve to live. Stop this nonsense paranoia and donate some of your adsense monies now.
 
because your church doesn't pay their pastor a huge salary to do good deeds. If you donate 10 dollars what 4 dollars might actually go toward the cause. . . .churches have been doing missions since there have been churches I'm sure they have a general Idea on how to help people.
 
Kudos for acting on your emotions and actually going the mile to sponsor a couple of kids in Africa :) Not everyone would be as enlightened. I have a monthly donation to UNICEF for their programs and all. It's a trusted organization so I don't have doubts that my donation will go to the less-fortunate as they say it would.
 
Shari said:
Kudos for acting on your emotions and actually going the mile to sponsor a couple of kids in Africa :) Not everyone would be as enlightened. I have a monthly donation to UNICEF for their programs and all. It's a trusted organization so I don't have doubts that my donation will go to the less-fortunate as they say it would.
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:sleep: post financials of UNICEF not being a corrupt religious non profit
 
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