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This is why everyone in Houston was begging people not to donate to red cross but local charities.
by post_break 9y ago
This is why everyone in Houston was begging people not to donate to red cross but local charities.
- pvaldes 9y agoLocal charities are great. But the problem with local charities is that they do not have the same formation or experience than red cross volunteers have. And they do not have the same stuff. Disposable medical material is expensive for example. And after the emergency ends, none of this material remains in the area to remember the money spent. Formation is expensive also and red cross provide it for free to their volunteers. If you are a new volunteer you are tutored by people with more experience also. Local charities based in churchs etc, have often valuable information about the social fabric in the area. But is very easy to fall in traps and to commit not obvious errors in emergencies when you start, like giving priority first to the wrong people in a triage. Is hard not to avoid spending valuable minutes in a friend with a minor wound, because is your friend, but in the meanwhile some people could be dying silently at a few meters. It is never easy.