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 ...
It just fills some dictator's or anti-American's pocket.
‘cuz merkins be raysiss!
Fork them..........
Heh, We’ll they’ll just have to come up with an Ebola tax and call it healthcare.
There was an article on FR earlier this week about Ebola-Aid sitting on docks in Monrovia (?maybe, IIRC?). No one had bothered to do anything with it after it was unloaded.
need more payola for olbola’s ebola
Flava Flav got problems of his own.
Flava Flav got problems of his own.
Surely, exposing 4,000 American military personnel is worth at least that much.
Obama will leave the borders WIDE open to help loosen up our wallets.
So if you are unemployed, underemployed or being burried by taxes, you should still fork over money to Ebola charities, along with a million other charities that arrogantly guilt trip you into giving them money, so that the “executive director” of that charity can continue to go around the country in style making speeches about the Ebola crisis. About 10 cents out of your donated dollar will actually make it to the victims.
Where is the AFRICAN-American Hollywood crowd, Beyonce, JayZ, Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman, Oprah? Surely they want to help their countrymen.
We’re donating Ebola?
Obama wanted to bring the U.S. to heel.
He’s succeeding.
I guess the rest of the world will just have to eat cake.
Perhaps if governments would impose quarantines and travel restrictions people would take it a little more seriously. If governments aren’t willing to do what must be done, why should individuals be motivated to pony up any cash?
We have a President who campaigned saying we were greedy and rich, so he could grab more money from us FOR the ‘needy’.
Now, the government has the money us ‘greedy/rich’ slobs USED TO donate to the charities of OUR choice!
To the ‘needy’ of the world:
“If you still need help, contact the people the US government hired to steal money FROM us on your behalf. American INDIVIDUALS don’t have ANY MORE!”
> Obama will leave the borders WIDE open to help loosen up our wallets.
Hell at this point they’ve already taken all the cash and the credit cards int and maxed them out. Now they want the wallet too.
Bkmk
Foreign aid: Poor people in wealthy countries giving money to wealthy people in poor countries................
If you like your Ebola you can keep your Ebola..................
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