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.
Yes, it pays to look around and make sure how much of the funds you donate will make it to the front lines, so to speak.
Thank you for the report and the link Thackney. Good job.
I’ll be using that link later today BTW. I would encourage others to join me.
here’s the BEST choice. The first ones on the ground and 100% goes to the relief effort...0% to admin.
https://secure3.convio.net/ldsp/site/Donation2?df_id=1280&1280.donation=form1&s_src=15205&JServSessionIdr004=3241vappn8.app333a
Japan is a very rich country and prints money like we do. Plus, they can always sell US Tresury Bonds which was a fear, but Geithner has assured us they will not do:
“Japan is a very rich country and has a high savings rate and has the capacity to deal not just with the humanitarian challenge but also the reconstruction challenge [have already begun] they face ahead.”
If really interested: Organizations like the Red Cross or Save the Children will find themselves with important and useful roles to play in Japan. They determine what roles to play all over the world.
And you may want to stay updated through the MIT info then a panic causing media which plays into the hands of scam artists worldwide.
Updates to catch up MIT NSE
Salvation Army employees are paid modestly, and overhead costs are kept very low. Sally is quick to get people on the ground in places where tragedy strikes, and they never ask for repayment for their aid. The Christmas bell ringers are often people who were lifted up from lives of misery, much as you've described. They do much good in this world.
The Rev. Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse.
I have read through this thread and several previous threads for the various disasters (Haiti, Katrina, Chile, Japan, etc.)
The Salvation Army always seems to get high marks, but The Red Cross doesn’t.
I have made donations to the SA. The one thing I do appreciate is not later being flooded with expensive want-more mailings. SA has an opt-out checkbox on their website.
Once I donated to a seemingly small military service related fund. I got inundated with expensive mailings. It took three requests to finally get off their list.
This is the link to Salvation Army earthquake and tsunami relief. I have already used it. I have Japanese friends in the US and they are putting together fundraisers even bake sales for the weekend - some of the groups they were sending their money to are a little suspect to me, so I just used the SA.
I just sent my contribution to The Salvation Army, in which I have total confidence. And that was before I learned we have them to thank for your continued presence with us ;-).
YOU just do, what YOU feel you have to do--bottom line.
Giving is a great attribute, determining the overall greater causes or needs, makes a charitable dollar better spent.
Japan DID provide aid following Katrina
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/September/20050915165123ajesrom9.768313e-02.html
excerpt:
Japanese private citizens and the government alike have sent a virtual tsunami of assistance to the victims of Katrina, which devastated 90,000 square miles along the U.S. Gulf Coast in August. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes and hundreds lost their lives.
Japan has pledged more than $1.5 million in private donations. The government of Japan has donated $200,000 in cash to the American Red Cross and some $800,000 in relief supplies — from blankets to generators — already are arriving to aid the most needy. Japanese firms with operations in the United States have donated some $12 million in total, including Honda Motor Corporation ($5 million), Hitachi ($1 million) and Nissan (more than $750,000).
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo was overwhelmed by the generosity of one Japanese individual — Takashi Endo — who donated $1 million from his personal funds to Katrina relief efforts. Endo said he was moved when, during a business trip to London, he saw a televised report about a mother separated from her children in the chaos of the flooding in New Orleans. The story so disturbed him he could not sleep that night; the next morning he resolved to do something to help.
I also contributed to the Salvation Army. There is a link on Yahoo’s home page.
Salvation Army is my first choice.
Having personal experience as a Red Cross Volunteer, I would never, never, NEVER give them a penny.
Ever
That’s awesome Laz! Congrats on getting those monkies off your back.
SA gets my seal of approval. I’m familiar with most if not all big charity organizations and SA is consistently excellent.
I googled “The Salvation Army” and found their main site.
Thank you, I have submitted a donation.
Donate to the Japanese people and know who got the money and when, and how the money helped
Does anyone know which Swiss bank accounts got the majority of the money donated to Haiti?
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