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Authenticity of International Help Organizations?

Posted by Cliff on from the are-they-legit dept.

UlfJack wonders: "I've been thinking about donating money, especially to organizations like Plan USA, who are doing what they can to help people in Third World countries. However I found it very difficult to check the authenticity of these organizations, so I'm trying to cross-check multiple independent sources. Has anyone figured out an easy way to do this?"

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  1. Well, I'm working for one... by goowaka · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm currently working for Geekcorps Mali. So I can say they're authentic :) You could donate to Geekcorps (sorry for the asp link, here in Mali proprietary software users are put away in the basement, and we're even developing a free software distro, Kunnafonix...). I'm also setting up a side project: getting more resources in Mali's most spoken language, Bambara. So I came up with the idea to kick start the Bambara Wikipedia, with the help of gadgets you geeks forgot about long time ago (one month ago when you bought your new iPod..) See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bambara_Wikipedia_L aunch_Competition (hopefully online right now :)