There is a lot of media coverage at present about the lack of co-ordination in getting supplies to Haiti to help save lives after the disaster.
Having seen this, I was shocked the other night to watch a media report on Irish TV which had a scrolling banner along the screen giving the website addresses/contact details of Irish charities that were asking for donations to help.
There must have easily been about a dozen separate charities collecting.
I remember Concern, Goal, Trocaire, Haven, Oxfam, Unicef - and there were others.
My question is why? Could we not have 1 single Irish charity and bank account to donate into? I know that these charities must have admin costs etc and surely the more of them that are collecting, the less that will actually be used to help those affected?
Having seen this, I was shocked the other night to watch a media report on Irish TV which had a scrolling banner along the screen giving the website addresses/contact details of Irish charities that were asking for donations to help.
There must have easily been about a dozen separate charities collecting.
I remember Concern, Goal, Trocaire, Haven, Oxfam, Unicef - and there were others.
My question is why? Could we not have 1 single Irish charity and bank account to donate into? I know that these charities must have admin costs etc and surely the more of them that are collecting, the less that will actually be used to help those affected?