RE: UNICEF "Children's rights campaigner" - Is Jailed For Rape of Boy, 13. Why It's Tough To Find An Honest Charity & What We Can Do To Help Fix This.
I have been infuriated by charities for a long time now too. What you are referring to is all to common A certain charity I know of set up a shelter for the homeless. Many of these unfortunate people were suffering from drug addiction and the staff that worked in the shelter were found to be selling these addicts, whom they were meant to be helping, hard drugs. Another point I would like to make is that here in Britain in order for an organisation to keep its charitable status it only needs to give 2% of its profits to the cause. This horrified me and became even more poignant when it has been revealed that Haiti only received 2% of the money collected for its appeal from the Clinton Foundation. Couple this with the fact that the British government has stopped it from being possible to make freedom of information requests on charities especially those concerning where the money goes. Corruption abounds especially when you realise that many government officials and heads of corporations are patrons of charities. It really disgusts me. Great post my friend. Peace.
I was not aware of the 2% figure, but that is in line with what I have seen in the real world. When I set up ureka, I considered whether or not to create some kind of 'legal entity' for it and did research into charities, not for profits and social businesses etc. - The very first thing I read about charities was that in Britain, their definition is not primarily about 'giving', 'care' or even 'respect' - but it is that the group comes under the direct control of the 'high court'. This basically makes ALL charities in Britain a controlled arm of the judiciary and government. This goes a long way to explain the problems faced here.
In this light, it makes more sense as to why a charity would employ people selling hard drugs - since the governments are well known to be involved the opium poppy trade and thus heroin, for example, in afghanistan - plus the extremely well detailed involvement in cocaine selling by the US gov.
In short, this is just more evidence (though none is needed) of total government corruption in all possible ways.
In Canada it is a measly 8 percent o