Sunday, January 17, 2010

Don't Donate Any More To Haiti? WTF?

A think piece — with facts! — worth a read.
The last time there was a disaster on this scale was the Asian tsunami, five years ago. And for all its best efforts, the Red Cross has still only spent 83% of its $3.21 billion tsunami budget — which means that it has over half a billion dollars left to spend. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s money which could be spent in Haiti, if it weren’t for the fact that it was earmarked.
...Earmarking your funds for Haiti in particular is not helpful. But that’s no reason to give nothing at all.

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