Here is a post from a Mormon Returned Missionary and his take on their care of the “poor and needy”
I served a full-time mission in Haiti for two years. Haiti is largely considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and in the bottom five in the world. I know what the Church does there because I worked in the office and actually had a discussion with one of the older couples who was in charge of the charity work done there. They do very little. Very little. They give a few bags of rice and beans here and there. They give a few thousand dollars here and there to some local charities but that is all.
Everything the Church does charitable wise that is of any significance is published in the Church news. They’ll publish that they’ve given a few hundred wheel chairs away or that they drilled a few wells in Africa. It makes Mormons think that they church is very charitable and those are just highlights. The problem is, those are the bulk of what was done, not just highlights. The Church wants its members to beleive that they are extremely charitable when they lack a great deal.
Bishop Edgley stated that the Church had given 750 million dollars between 1984 and 2006. You’ll have to search the deseret news for that. I’m not saying that 750 million is worse than nothing but what I am saying is that it is not enough at all. I have been told, by a gentleman who works at the Church headquarters, that only 27% of members of the Church pay tithing fully in the US. If we say that there are 5.5 million members in the US and we divide that 5.5 million members by 4 to represent average families and assuming children or spouses will pay tithing, and we then say that they pay between 5000 per family, which I think is fair because I know several Mormons that pay more than that, and I checked this figure with my father in law who is a ward finance clerk in Idaho and he said it was fair, you get around 2 billion a year. That is very conservative figures and excludes all foreign tithing income and all the other income the church gets from its more wealthy members. If the church only spends about 50-75 million of that in charitable work, which is probably high, we are talking about miniscule amounts.
I don’t think all these anti-mormon idiots who say we are not Christian or whatever are right. I’ve seen several of these “Christian” ministers and pastors wearing jewelry and driving nice cars in Haiti off the backs of donations by their starving congregations. I am saying that I know that I saw starving children who slept in streets, and not just a few, every day all day begging me for help and all I could do was push them away. Our Church does not have hospitals or schools or orphanages and I know that our Church doesn’t donate very much at all to other Churchs or organizations that do this. This is all fact from my personal experience in Haiti. I had a ton of problems with this and obviously still do. The typical responses of “our Church just gives a lot through other churches,” or “we don’t want to publish what we do because that would diminish our charitable efforts,” are pretty much garbage. We’ll hear, “by your works ye shall know them” and then just assume we give a ton and do more than our share. The truth is, we as a church are letting thousands of children die each day by not doing enough. No matter what you say or tell yourself, if you open your eyes, you’ll see the Church doesn’t really do all you think they do.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2405383/posts?q=1&;page=116#116
Amazingly....that post has been removed.