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Great job, Soji! Very informative. Keep up the good work. :-)
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Considering the billions that go into that continent, in foreign aid, and
the so called charities. It should be thriving. Where does all that money
go?
+ALAN MORGEWho "they"? Stuff I'm talking is the truth.It's a standard process, no one is even hiding it. No one creates fund raising campaigns out of their own pocket, all the leaflets you get in mail, all TV ads, YouTube clips asking you to donate, all the bracelets, seminars, etc. are funded by donators. Now go look it up how it costs to air ads on TV, how much it costs to send millions of leaflets by mail. It's a never ending cycle. They start money raising campaign, raise some money only to start another campaign, millions of dollars circulate, yet only few thousands reach people in need. I know a mailman, and he says most of mail he delivers is from charities asking to donate, bags and bags of addressed tear jerking leaflets, with picture of a sick\starving child and request to donate, it's mind boggling how much these charities waste on these. If someone from their mailing list actually donates, he's then bombarded by tens of request to donate more. Dirty business it is. But hey, it makes us feel better, and creates more jobs in our countries, keeps dem mailmen, film\recording studious, printing houses, drivers, phone operators busy.The second part about competitions, it's again an industry standard process.If you're a doctor, teacher, I dunno, nurse, and you really want to help those in need, you can always sign up and go to the 3rd world countries and directly help people there, no bullshit, just don't expect people to be grateful. Do this only if this benefits you, for example to raise your qualification, because you don't want to waste years of life only to realize you changed nothing.
These charities spend most of the money they receive from donation to start yet another campaign to raise more money, then they use that money to fund another money raising campaign. In the end, only those companies who make those tear jerking videos and leaflets are becoming rich, don't forget about tax evasion as well. It's a very clever scheme.Another problem is how these donations are distributed. Most charities will only give temporary help, almost no one is interested in helping Africans build infrastructure, create work places, etc.Don't forget about corruption. Also, someone has to physically give that charity to people, so they hire companies which help with distribution, corruption and clever schemes take place here as well. For example, 10 companies offer their services, few dummy companies offer a very low price, and they win, but then they deliberately reject the offer, this process usually takes a long time, so naturally charities give that offer to the next contender from the list who offered the lowest price (but higher than the one who refused).