Too many heartbreaking appeals on TV?

Here's something very interesting :

Haiti : 7 places where your donations did and didn't go

“It turns out that almost none of the money that the general public thought was going to Haiti actually went directly to Haiti.”

http://www.nationofchange.org/haiti-seven-places-where-earthquake-money-did-and-did-not-go-1325609029

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And that's just one country. Imagine the hundreds out there where you think your hard-earned cash has gone to.

Here's something very interesting :

 

Haiti : 7 places where your donations did and didn't go...

From that article:

"Right after the earthquake, the US allocated $379 million in aid and sent in 5000 troops. The Associated Press discovered that of the $379 million in initial US money promised for Haiti, most was not really money going directly, or in some cases even indirectly, to Haiti. They documented in January 2010 that

thirty three cents of each of these US dollars for Haiti was actually given directly back to the US to reimburse ourselves for sending in our military.

So? From that figure, 33% of the $379 million in aid was provided in manpower/machinery. (Provided by the US military.) The money was still spent on aid.

Forty two cents of each dollar went to private and public non-governmental organizations like Save the Children, the UN World Food Program and the Pan American Health Organization.

Those organisations provided medical care, food and other aid.

Hardly any went directly to Haitians or their government.

The writer appears to be complaining that the people who lived in Haiti didn't get the chance to trouser the aid money.

I saw some film of Haiti taken about 9 months after the earthquake.

It did indeed look like a disaster. There was lots of rubble lying around.

There were also a large number of fairly fit looking young Haitians sitting around waiting for somebody else to pick up the rubbish.

Presumably they felt they weren't being paid enough to do anything about the mess.