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Originally Posted by Coolhand
So the US is offering $3 dollars in aide for every person left homeless.
But they were willing to spend how much per Iraqi citizen under Saddams' rule, $5.000.000?
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The estimated US donations to and after the tsunami in the first year was 1.8 billion. Granted that is was more wide spread, however, as an example the US collective donations in that period was $400 million to Indonesia and $135 million to Sri Lanka.
A lot of that money did not come from the US government, but rather from private and corporate fund raising. Once you get the Americans going (at the private level) it is amazing what can be achieved.
After the tsunami I started a fund raiser among my 110 colleagues with a company matching program and we raised just over $8,000, which all went to a school rebuilding project in Thailand.
The key to a good fundraiser is to motivate while the event is still in the news, unfortunately. In this case the news has been skimpy and there is little or no faith that donations will get to those who need it.
Personally I plan to start a fund raiser as soon as I can find an avenue to do some good (but not before). My goal this time would be to raise about $3,000 as I now work for a smaller company. That would be 0.1% of the stated donations offered by the US .... be real.
If the Burmese government, however, will not let both journalists and relief worker in, the efforts will be near nill.