My friend, Roberto has sent me a few recommendations for the most efficient charities from people involved in the relief effort
My friend and teaching associate in FLorida, Jeff Weiss of www.kitemare.com) has earmarked 10% of his revenues for the Red Cross. Check out his page. If we all give a little it will help so much.
Roberto's young friend Dexter Gauntlett who works for Relief International and is currently working in Tajikistan has offered some recommendations for charties that are the most efficient at delivering aid areas needed. and have a look at his recommendations.
From Dexter, Relief International:
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>Hey Roberto,
>
>Thanks for all the very thoughtful writing and personal experiences.
>Undoubtedly your personal response and conncection to this tragedy has
>actually had a very positive effect in encouraging other people to donate.
>
>Being in the aid business I felt I might be able to help out with passing
>on some useful information for you to forward on to your friends who are
>interested in donating. While our organization is responding to this
>disaster, I would actually recommend other orgs who are already more
>established in the regions affected.
>
>When these types of disasters pop up a good place to start is
>www.interaction.org . Interaction is a collection of most of the major
>Aid Organizations (religious and non-religious) and describes how each
>participating organization is contributing to the relief effort in a
>concise list with links to each organization's website. All of these orgs
>are reputable because they had to meet a minimum set of accounting and
>efficiency standards to be a member of Interaction, hence more of your
>money actually going to those who need it.
>
>I would personally recommend are the International Red Cross/Red Crescent.
>They don't waste money or time, and are non partisan and above the
>competitive "me first" bickering of most international NGOs. When too
>many smaller orgs get involved they often get in the way (already reports
>of traffic slowing delivery of relief supplies), especially in the initial
>response period. ICRC already has people there and gets things done.
>
>In talking with my boss and veteran of this sort of thing, he said numbers
>when all said and done will be over 200,000 dead.
>
>Hope this helps and thanks again for the updates,
>
>All the best,
>Dexter
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