Thanks for the references to good organizations.
AGSC

On 2006-Jul 25, at 10:28hrs AM, Russell McMahon wrote:

I would donate money to these efforts if I thought 75% ended up in
a refugees pocket and not funding a fat cat's new car.


I'm fairly happy with what Oxfam seems to achieve.
After the Indonesian Tsunami they were flying in tons of supplies
(with their crates visible on evening TV being forklifted into
aeroplanes) while the UN were still 'preparing to send people to
investigate requirements'.


UNHCR have their heart more or less in the right place
--- I do not think so.... the UN is 75% full of mediocre, power grabbing
swine ----

but they are
not the most efficient organisation on earth or demonstrably good at
dealing with internal corruption. I indirectly know a man with the UN
who is working within view of the Lebanese-Israeli border (his wife
and children just arrived in Cyprus) so they have got at least some
people on site (as you'd certainly expect). How many are there working
on humanitarian issues directly I don't know.




             Russell

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