It would make a vet's day to be able to point some money towards some school/clinic/micro-loan/etc. helping locals somewhere really ugly. A colonel returning from Haiti turned our whole parish on to an orphanage/school there, where money could be sent directly to the director. Be aware that money does not work the same way in these kids of places. My sister has been a nurse in the D.R.Congo for 40 years, and things are absurdly expensive relative to income, mail and luggage are pilfered, and aid disbursement is complicated by 3rd world economics. I had to build her crazy spreadsheets simply for cash flow dealing with multiple agency disbursement requirements, high inflation, multiple-currencies with dynamic exchange rates, etc. I tell donors to send her friends/coworkers money, then they buy supplies here, and smuggle them in when they visit/return. I don't know what their overhead is, but Médecins Sans Frontières gets it DONE.
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It would make a vet's day to be able to point some money towards some school/clinic/micro-loan/etc. helping locals somewhere really ugly. A colonel returning from Haiti turned our whole parish on to an orphanage/school there, where money could be sent directly to the director. Be aware that money does not work the same way in these kids of places. My sister has been a nurse in the D.R.Congo for 40 years, and things are absurdly expensive relative to income, mail and luggage are pilfered, and aid disbursement is complicated by 3rd world economics. I had to build her crazy spreadsheets simply for cash flow dealing with multiple agency disbursement requirements, high inflation, multiple-currencies with dynamic exchange rates, etc. I tell donors to send her friends/coworkers money, then they buy supplies here, and smuggle them in when they visit/return. I don't know what their overhead is, but Médecins Sans Frontières gets it DONE.