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Is it possible to fix this? I am from a poor eastern European country and I'm donating to orphanages and animal shelters. By western standards they need very l
by bserge 5y ago
Is it possible to fix this? I am from a poor eastern European country and I'm donating to orphanages and animal shelters.
By western standards they need very little money. You can spend $5 on a coffee or on feeding a child for 2 days or clothing them for months.
Or on keeping several dogs fed for the same amount of time and under a roof. Of course, more is better.
The average donation to an orphanage in the country is $1.5 and I'm not sure how much they manage to get in a month.
Transferring money is not a problem, it's organization. But to even try and change anything one would have to go through the government, which seems completely uninterested in it. Hell, they won't even buy new buses around the capital. But politicians get new Skodas and Mercs.
Big charity organizations are randomly delivering a bunch of food or clothing every few months. Which is great, but it's not a regular, nor that much of a supply.
Direct crowdfunding from richer regions would work much better, but again, how to organize it? I guess that's why charities spend so much on just operating, it's harder than it seems.
Yet all the gig economy companies show that it may be possible to leverage modern IT technology for it.