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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Here, in the Netherlands, we have a national bank account, which is opened for certain catastrophic events all over the world. The money that is put in there, only goes to that cause.
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Sounds like a good thing. We can donate here too but it goes to charities that will then use the money. And as mentioned, I am rather picky these days who gets my money.
But I have now made up my mind. Rather than sitting and analysing it to death I have decided to split the money I wanted to donate and have given it to 2 charities:
- One is 'Medicine sans frontriers' for immediate relief - yes I am aware that they may use the money elsewhere but I believe they are a worthy course at any rate (no link - just google if interessted and charity in your country will pop up);
- The other is a small charity 'Yele Haiti' - this donation is to assist haitian (?) people after the first crisis. http://yele.org/
Took me a while to work these out, but I am now happy with my choices.