Posted on 03/17/2011 6:30:25 AM PDT by quesney
To Japanese and Japan-based Freepers:
What's the best, quickest way of getting aid to people on the ground directly -- via local groups, religious instutitons, etc.
I'd rather not give it to an international bureaucracy like the Red Cross (Japanese website was confusing), other NGO's or government.
This is being posted Front/Breaking because I imagine a lot of other Freepers want this info and, let's face it, it's an emergency over there and these people need quick, effective help as soon as they can get it.
I've seen too many stories of waste, corruption and abuse (Haiti, Katrina, etc.) and would rather bypass this and get as big a share of every dollar to the people who need it now as soon as possible.
Thanks for the recommendations - however when I clicked on the Caritas link and saw the tabs for "Economic Justice" and "Climate Change" (which also included an inner tab for "Climate Justice"), I felt like I should have been breaking out into a rousing rendition of the Commie Anthem: "The Internationale".
I presume the Caritas people do good work - but their website gave me the eebie-jeebies. I'll stick with Samaritan's Purse and the Salvation Army (and maybe Partners International ... without the last "e"). Thanks nonetheless.
Thank you for supporting the suffering Japanese people, via any one of Jesus' Ten Thousand Ways to Love.
If you go to the Caritas Japan page and donate via the Aid-to-Japan link, that is where it goes.
I donated and followed up with a question, got this answer:
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Hello XXXXX,
Thank you for your email and for your donation.
Be assured that if you donated via the Support our work in Japan link that the donation will be designated for that purpose.
I see every donation after it is processed so I will ensure that it is attributed to the Caritas Japan appeal.
Warm wishes,
Nigel Wallace
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I give to SAMARITAN’S PURSE too, regularly and sometimes exclusively, and I am a Jew!
(a real one, not a Christian who likes to yammer assorted sacrileges in transliterated Hebrew, presumably to appear holier or more genuinely “grafted in” than his fellow Christians whilst offending actual, worshipful Jews.)
(a real one, not a Christian who likes to yammer assorted sacrileges in transliterated Hebrew, presumably to appear holier or more genuinely grafted in than his fellow Christians whilst offending actual, worshipful Jews.)
I really appreciate you saying that. I I am a Christian grew up in a Jewish community and have been embarrassed when Christians do the Jewish thing. I worked with a Christian once who wanted to name our business a Hebrew name to bring in more Jews. I stonewalled her. She really doesnt understand.
Thanks
I agree with you, FWIW, and appreciate your research.
Thanks.
I went to Catholic and Anglican schools so I am pretty certain what can be called “Sacrilege” to a Christian. (Especially a Catholic.)
There are certain no-nos in Judiasm, too: certain things that you just don’t do. It’s wrong. Like saying or ESPECIALLY writing variations on what might me the actual name of the Lord.
Listen - I am not saying by this comment that my faith is “right” and another’s is “wrong”. That is TOTALLY not the subject here. Whether or not YOUR interpretation of the Bible and scholarship and faith agrees with MY beliefs is not the issue. The issue is COMMON DECENCY.
The issue for me is somnething like this:
If I were a Catholic, then converted to Judiasm, or was a Jew, but somehow identified with Catholicism...
...And in each of my posts on FR I tag-lined with a little outlandish latin heresy (no I will not give an example) you can bet your sweet ass I would be taken for a mean, rude, unholy, loud-mouthed and FUNDAMENTALLY disrespectful jive-ass fool in sore need of an ass-kicking.
Frankly I hope Jesus himself kicks some of these guy’s asses... Even if I can’t be there to see it! LOL.
The Salvation Army is a great place to donate money.
Salvation Army is always safe. We try to channel our donations throughour local SBC church to be sure the money ends up where it’s supposed to.
Salvation Army does great work, but they’re not in to tooting their own horn so there’s not a lot of media coverage. Ditto for Southern Baptist Convention; seems that the SBC people are usually first on the scene for disasters. Again, they don’t get the press because they’re not glamorous.
Hollywood has been on top of this one - check out Lady Gaga, whomever she is.
Lady G is not on my radar. Madonna redux.
Where are the Bono scam fundraisers?
I think they know they would have a hard time raising money with the questionable practices re Haiti.
I’m with you. We sent our money to the Salvation Army.
Close, it’s off of Okinawa. There are others like it including megalithic ruins 2000’ beneath the waves off of Cuba and other relics of pre-flood times as well. There is a magnetic anomaly at one corner of Lake Vostok, 2 miles beneath the ice of Antarctica which pegs magnetometers in aircraft flying over (the thing that normally does that is a city...).
Thanks for the insight, just donated to the Salvation Army and they will be oone of my new charities from now on.
Are you aware that Red Cross directors make between $200 and $300K+ per year? I can’t say all of them do, but I’ve heard of too many of them that have.
Around 09/11 I followed what the Red Cross was doing with funds donated for the surviving family members of those killed on 09/11.
I will never provide one dime in support for the Red Cross, any Red Cross effort ever again.
If you wish to, hey that’s okay. I’m not going to dump on you for having done so.
Good for you.
To me it really doesn’t make a difference IF Japan is a wealthy nation or a 3rd World nation, You can have all the wealth in the world, but IF you don’t have Jesus, you have nothing!
I remember some years back when Cresent City, California was hit by a tidal wave in the middle of a cold winter...and the Red Cross was still pulling ‘Red-tape’...the Salvation Army, was in there with hot meals and warm clothing...made no difference what a persons status was...what they needed was warm clothing, hot meals, given with a warm smile in the name of Jesus... IF, the gift is given with the right attitude, the Lord will reward you accordingly. I prefer to do my giving as unto the Lord, as I’m sure many others do too, so why should any of us question and try to qualify the needs of any people that have been stricken by such a tragedy with the magnitude of the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan. I know many Japanese people that are some of the most loving and giving people that you could meet...they would give you the shirt off of their back, even IF you were rich, but needed a shirt at that particular moment. So, let’s us think ahead a bit, out of the box...we maybe hit with a similar disaster.... would we except the ‘shirt’ that Japan would off each one of us? Ends times are coming and there will undoubtedly be more disasters coming and we need to be prepared and support one another.
Not only the Salvation Army, but also the ‘Samaritan’s Purse’ is there ‘johnny on the spot’ when needed and giving a cup of cold water in the Name of Jesus, with no questions asked.
I would not hesitate to give to either one of these wonderful organizations, as Lazamataz so aptly put it....when he needed help...they were there and brought good results. Good for you Laz...thanks for sharing your Overcoming with Salvation Army’s help! God Bless you, Laz, as you give and bless others in return.
To me it really doesn’t make a difference IF Japan is a wealthy nation or a 3rd World nation, You can have all the wealth in the world, but IF you don’t have Jesus, you have nothing!
I remember some years back when Cresent City, California was hit by a tidal wave in the middle of a cold winter...and the Red Cross was still pulling ‘Red-tape’...the Salvation Army, was in there with hot meals and warm clothing...made no difference what a persons status was...what they needed was warm clothing, hot meals, given with a warm smile in the name of Jesus... IF, the gift is given with the right attitude, the Lord will reward you accordingly. I prefer to do my giving as unto the Lord, as I’m sure many others do too, so why should any of us question and try to qualify the needs of any people that have been stricken by such a tragedy with the magnitude of the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan. I know many Japanese people that are some of the most loving and giving people that you could meet...they would give you the shirt off of their back, even IF you were rich, but needed a shirt at that particular moment. So, let’s us think ahead a bit, out of the box...we maybe hit with a similar disaster.... would we except the ‘shirt’ that Japan would off each one of us? Ends times are coming and there will undoubtedly be more disasters coming and we need to be prepared and support one another.
Not only the Salvation Army, but also the ‘Samaritan’s Purse’ is there ‘johnny on the spot’ when needed and giving a cup of cold water in the Name of Jesus, with no questions asked.
I would not hesitate to give to either one of these wonderful organizations, as Lazamataz so aptly put it....when he needed help...they were there and brought good results. Good for you Laz...thanks for sharing your Overcoming with Salvation Army’s help! God Bless you, Laz, as you give and bless others in return.
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