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Big charities and your cash!
Kira,I hear what you are saying,and my family and spent a long time researching how our money is used on the ground.Eventually we worked with a group in South Africa called gods golden acre.The funding they get is fairly substantial on the face of it(around a half million uk pounds).However when I did the maths,I could hardly believe how far they are able to stretch their resources.The stats - one orphanage with 100 kids/5 pre-schools/5000 kids in the community on various support programmes/95 staff(inc a handful of europeans), and 350 families on direct food aid costing around £30/family/month.When I say their are NO big salaries or fancy trimmings,you have to see it for youself,nothing goes to waste.But the tragedy is that to-day,very few Westerners take the time to see these things for themselves,so consequently it is left to glossy aid agencys to take what they can,and everyone goes on as misinformed and ignorant as usual.
However where big agencys score, is in having a lot of well informed/educated people with an organised infrastructure,who are more able to deal with a crisis on a large scale, that smaller operators could never hope to do - so who is right?
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