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A website that pairs you with an ʻOhana to support displaced by the Maui Fires
- laweijfmvo 3y agoSeems like a nice idea, but a mostly blank website with random Venmo links cannot be trusted these days. Better to go through official routes and accept the overhead/ineffciencies IMO
- berbec 3y agoA local paper recommends going straight to the Red Cross. [1] https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/ https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/ Their is a pull-down to direct your donation to the Hawaii Wildfires. 1: https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/08/11/hawaii-news/how-to-help-our-ohana-in-maui/ https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/08/11/hawaii-news/...
- LinuxBender 3y agoAdding to that the site uses whois privacy which I would not expect from anything involved in a charity.
- mutant_glofish 3y ago> random Venmo links Most of them link to the GoFundMe pages of the families, which usually have descriptions of the situation (and even pictures) of the family.