I will explain to you why i started my own gofundme campaign instead of providing the link of some local charity. Our country is full of corruption and dishonesty in politics and the innocent people are always the ones that are penalized. If any of the local charities receive 100 what will be realistically given is only 10 out of 100 and that is not why people want to help. When people donate it is because wen they donate 100 they expected to see at least 80 or 90 given to the needy people. This is not happening in Lebanon and will never happen unfortunately, because most of local charities are fake, led by wifes of local politicians to cover up a lot of the money laundering made by their husbands.
In fact a lot of the humanitarian aids (free aids) given by many countries are being SOLD to people and that is unacceptable!! The only way to help these poor people is by doing a civil volunteering workforce and the lebanese people understood that and are moving in this direction.
In fact if you look at what is happening right now. You will see civilians, young mans and ladies cleaning out streets, cleaning people houses, restoring whatever is possible to restore with donations given by other individuals without asking 1 single penny to local charities because they know that if they ask, nothing will be given to them.
With my campaign i want to do what local charities will never do, fund these actions, helping the needy families in restoring their houses, have what is needed to overcome this ugly situation. The only way is through empowering the REAL volunteers, the people of Lebanon.
I have contacts with several of these groups of volunteers many of my friends are helping there aswell. And funds will be devided in packages of 1000$ to each of these groups and i have already agreed with each of these groups to send me updates on what has been made with the funds, in order to post updates on the gofundme campaign and show people the power of their donations and the smile given back to people being able to access their houses again.
Would you like to be part of the team of this fundraising campaign? You seem emotionally very involved and it would be my pleasure having you in the team.
RE: Beirut Blast - Lebanese Expat experience - Fundraising Campaign