CHARITIES
AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS . . .

. . . . . . Only one organization has been contacted about allowing a link to their web site here (UPDATE: UNICEF has chosen to not allow me to put a link to their web site here. I randomly picked an administrator from the 600+ e-mail addresses in the New York division's list with my request; the matter went to committee with a negative decision I was informed 1/22[/97]).

. . . . . . Those interested in pursuing the charitable approach now might look in (not there anymore: are we trying to forget poverty & hunger?) Yahoo! - Society and Culture:Poverty:Hunger. Here's an update, since poverty and hunger no longer appear in Yahoo!'s directory structure: from the link below follow in particular the Relief Organizations link (with the 'new' flag)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Children/Organizations/
Here are some more links to hunger organizations: (goner)http://www.doitnow.com/~smd/aghngr.htm
(not [t]here)http://www.shamash.org/soc-action/mazon/mazon_hunger.html
http://www.secondharvest.org/

. . . . . . I was really excited recently upon hearing that 81.6% of the donations received by Save the Children went to children in need, and immediately starting tithing to that organization. I was more than disappointed to later visit their web site at http://savethechildren.org and discover on their 'finances' page that this money goes to children "directly or indirectly" and that a substantial portion of their proceeds is aimed at 'education projects' and other systemic endeavors which apparently have made little impact on the 'daily bread' aspects of hungry children. They are at least currently (10-25-98) working in the Sudan, a situation which gives tragically eloquent testimony to mankind's disregard for 'the less fortunate' among us. I post this as a 'for-what-it's-worth' plea to change it all.

. . . . . . CARE (@ http://www.care.org/) reports that only some ten percent of the funds it raises are used for administrative and fund-raising purposes (well, anything other than helping poor people hopefully). I actually direct most of my giving here now in no small part because of this statistic.

. . . Politics Now. . .

. . . . . . . Perhaps the political process is not beyond hope; we certainly might inform our elected officials of perceived priorities at links to government agencies. E-mail addresses for the Senate are here; contact information for House members can be found here (or if you know your representative's name, their web page [if they have one] can be accessed here); personally, I think those who don't have published e-mail addresses at least are hopelessly out of touch since they could have them if they chose.

. . . . Churches. . .

. . . . . . . Churches are an obvious resource, especially considering the huge amount of discretionary funds which could be made available for this work if the bureaucracy can be convinced to examine and change organizational priorities. (We don't need to build another church or make an existing one bigger or better, we need to focus on the vineyard and get some of the people in it more food and more adequate shelter. [Interestingly, the Catholic church, traditionally the least responsive church to the rights and needs of its members, might lead the way to much-needed church reform.( I don't remember why I wrote this about the catholics.)])

. . . . Overview . . .

. . . . . . . We should remember that the bureaucratic change needed can result only from public pressure, and efforts by individuals represent just that: public pressure. If enough people see a need for the type of change proposed on these pages, that type of change inevitably will result.

. . . . . . . Suggestions and links for this page are solicited and welcome, though submission does not guarantee inclusion.

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