[Buddha-l] Re: "So much for tsunami dana"

[jkirk]

>
> I've heard before, probably on this list, the argument that even if only a 
> small
> percentage of an aid budget actually filters through to the target 
> community,
> the programme is still validated by that small percentage of good done. I
> certainly don't begrudge the Khmer people that single billion dollars I
> mentioned, and surely cannot be understood to have been suggesting that 
> the
> inefficiency of aid programmes plus local corruption warrants the 
> withdrawal of
> aid? But one of the points swilling around in my opaque statements was the
> possibility that by exercising what control we can, in the case of 
> charitable
> donation by making more astute choices of recipient, we can increase the
> percentage that hits the target. I therefore do not understand your 'but'.
>
> Andrew
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Well, Andrew--as I and Catalina also recommended, one of the truly sterling 
NGOs to which to contribute, with good assurance that the money will be used 
the way it was intended, is Medecins sans Frontieres. I am going to send 
them some dough as well as my local RC.
Joanna