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Ebola donations lag far behind need [Americans aren't forking over enough]
CNN Money ^ | October 8, 2014 | Melanie Hicken

Posted on 10/08/2014 5:52:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Last month, the United Nations announced it would need nearly $1 billion to effectively fight the virus, which has killed more than 3,400 people across West Africa since March. If it is not contained, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there could be hundreds of thousands of Ebola cases in coming months.

"Every day we delay, the cost and the suffering will grow exponentially," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said at the time.

The United States and other governments have pledged tens of millions of dollars to pay for everything from medicine and protective clothing for aid workers to safe burials for the deceased. Yet individual and corporate donations to support Ebola response efforts are lagging far behind the funds given in the aftermath of natural disasters, such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti or last year's typhoon in the Philippines.

Four major U.S. aid organizations surveyed by CNNMoney have received a combined total of $19.5 million so far, much of which came from nonprofit foundations as opposed to individual donors....

... Yet unlike natural disasters, aid groups say they need to raise even more resources to help stop the Ebola epidemic from getting even worse.....

..."How do I quantify that and explain to the American people in the same way I can show a building here today and gone tomorrow?" she said. So far, the fund has received a mere fraction of the $74.5 million it received in the wake of the Haiti earthquake....

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charity; donations; ebola; rathole
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“hey Moitle, dah stinky bums at dah UN are askin’ fo’ money, agin’!”

Myrtle replies: “Didn’t we give them money last year?”


21 posted on 10/08/2014 6:07:12 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

22 posted on 10/08/2014 6:12:49 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

How about the hundreds of thousands that this liar from Liberia has cost US taxpayers? That is our unwilling donation.


23 posted on 10/08/2014 6:15:10 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
“should still fork over money to Ebola charities, along with a million other charities that arrogantly guilt trip you into giving them money”

You may not know how accurate you are with that portion of your comment. I am on a board of a social service group. BTW, no one is paid nor do they derive any financial or other benefits from our activities. That said, the biggest problem over the past few years is raising money for our causes. Why? simply because the plethora of groups raising money for their separate causes has so exploded in numbers as to drive out any of those on the periphery. In my community it is not uncommon to see 2-4 fundraisers each weekend. People are tapped out but the clamor to raise more money continues. Everyone has an idea for finding OPM, other peoples money: golf tournaments, Galas, raffles, bake sales, Skeet shooting, straight donations etc. Some events are even losing money but the clamor continues. In our organization, fund raising has reached mania proportions and I know we are not alone.

24 posted on 10/08/2014 6:19:33 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: wbill

” So, Ebola is caused by lack of funding? ”

Apparently global warming and racism are contributors, too.


25 posted on 10/08/2014 6:42:15 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

But... what about obamacare?


26 posted on 10/08/2014 6:51:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We pay the UN Hundreds of millions every year so the World Health Organization is there to deal with these kinds of crises.


27 posted on 10/08/2014 6:57:28 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah, I’ll get righ on this just like I was all over the Haiti thing. \sarc


28 posted on 10/08/2014 7:02:12 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let them shake down the Saudis and the ChiComs — those bastards took America’s money already


29 posted on 10/08/2014 7:09:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: MrB

***NEWS FLASH***
Americans are broke!


30 posted on 10/08/2014 7:28:54 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

I believe that’s one of the reasons that Satan and his minions on the left hate and attack the free enterprise system -

it affords the ability of a Christian nation to help the rest of the world and to spread the Good News.


31 posted on 10/08/2014 7:30:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No doubt Mandela’s South Africa paradise will leap in with millions in aid.

And Casto’s Cuban super-duper medical pros must be flying in to save the day any minute now.


32 posted on 10/08/2014 8:38:13 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

33 posted on 10/08/2014 1:57:08 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let the good liberals donate. They barely do anyway.


34 posted on 10/08/2014 1:59:34 PM PDT by vpintheak (Keep calm and Fire for Effect!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

35 posted on 10/08/2014 7:07:51 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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