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Red Cross Asks For 50 Ham Radio Operators To Fly To Puerto Rico (arrl.org)
Bruce Perens writes: The red cross has asked for 50 ham radio operators to fly to Puerto Rico and be deployed there for up to three weeks. This is unprecedented in the 75-year cooperation between Red Cross and ARRL, the national organization of ham radio operators for the U.S. The operators will relay health-and-welfare messages and provide communications links where those are missing and are essential to rescue and recovery. With much infrastructure destroyed, short-wave radio is a critical means of communicating from Puerto Rico to the Mainland at this time.
They are one ofthe WORST charities... Lookup what numbers they do release, most of the money goes to pay for their own expansion/saleries and bullshit. They contract out companies to beg for money and give them a % before they take theirs.
From my own family in the 1950's... There was a housefire and family lost everything, on the street with 4 kids, my grandfather wounded from war went to the red cross for some help and was turned away; Salvation army helped prompty!
Orginizations like the RED CROSS do more harm than good by virtue of stealing money intended to actually help people. Actually to be registered as a charity I think the minimum running expense needs to be above 90% of the funds collected.