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I’d be interested in seeing some of those. I googled the same and of course came across some stories of bad dealings. (”Why hasn’t my child been to school? What do you mean my money just went to “the village”. The gal I know at WV always has the nicest clothes and biggest jewelry”).

I like WV because it is already in-place in so many countries, and has a good rating on how much money goes to relief compared to fund-raising, admin, etc. In just now searching I see that it gets a 4-star rating (60.34 score) from something called “Charity Navigator”. Samaritan’s Purse (Franklin Graham’s group) also got 4 stars (61.44 score). The Red Cross had 2 or 3 stars, and Unicef had 2 stars.

Folks can search that site for the group of their choice if it helps in figuring out where to donate:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4768

Just google for World Vision with the word corrupt and the results should show up. http://friends-partners.org/CCSI/resource/sins.htm has interesting information.

Of Oxfam's #98m ($162m) income in 1998, a quarter, #24.1m, was given by the British government and the EU. World Vision US, which boasts of being the world's "largest privately funded Christian relief and development organisation", collected $55m-worth of goods that year from the American government.

That is a problem. If they got huge amounts from the Clinton administration, I am not willing to trust them. I would think that a huge chunk of that money must have been "administrative overheads" and a lot of that money came back as lobbying fees and campaign donations.

I think much of the disorganized mess should be placed squarely at the feet of the blood sucking UN. The UN had been in Haiti since 2004, not in small numbers, either. They KNOW hurricanes often hit Haiti and there was this from the 18th Caribbean Geological Conference (predicted a 7.2 earthquake) :

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/jsg/18_cgg/Mann3.htm?PHPSESSID=d96c45386e2381490bf921d0d05289df
“We present initial results from a paleoseismic study of the Jamaica segment of the EGPGFZ conducted in January, 2008, to determine the chronology of its historic and prehistoric ruptures. Such studies should be considered high priority in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic given the seismic hazards posed by the fault.”

The UN is useless and sucks money away from places like Haiti. The UN needs to be gone!

Also, I think if I were a Haitian and all those photogs were running around snapping pictures of my family and or neighbors as they lay suffereing or dead under the rubble, I would throw some darn rocks and try and keep them out. I would be angry, too. The UN should have had a plan and heavy equipment on Haiti in the event something such as this happened. It’s a complete failure of the UN that is UNFORGIVABLE!