American Red Cross once again messed up

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On the front page of today's USA Today,there is a article about the American Red Cross once again not responding quickly to the residents in TX who were affected by Hurricane Harvey. Its been weeks since the storm came through,local residents/ officals and Gov.Greg Abbott are very critical of they way the Red Cross handled this situation.

You'd think after the terrible bad press the org. received after Hurricane Katrina&Rita nearly devastated the Gulf Coast,the org would have learn from its mistakes,apparently not,I'm not surprised
11 years ago,I was with 10 members of my church,along with 2 other Presb. churches as our local Presbytery sent us down to the Gulf Coast toD'Iberville Miss, town of 8,000 residents to help with the cleanup.

It was 4 months after Hurricanes Katrina&Rita nearly destroyed the town. One day at lunch I was talking with 2 residents,very critical of the way Red Cross & Salvation Army handled this,they never helped,instead went to New Orleans.I asked' who helped in your time of crisis' They replied local Presb & Baptist churches. The mayor of the town said the same thing.

Since that trip, I never give money to the Red Cross or Salvation Army
To read the article http:// www.usatoday.com11/8/2017redcrossfloundered by Sean Rossman,Eleanor Dearman,John C. Moritz Sue
 

I've taken some excellent first aid courses from the Red Cross. I know that the courses are available just about everywhere. I don't know much else about the organization except that they find emergency housing for victims of house fires and similar. During wars, they work in the interests of wounded and prisoners of any nation. Many of their workers have been killed during those wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement

The Salvation Army is a cult. They make a lot of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army
 

fuzzybuddy said:
You are angry that a bunch of volunteers screwed up?
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Both the Red Cross and Salvation Army have many paid staff. I knew someone who, although she is now retired, worked for the Red Cross doing logistics. Her job was setting up relief efforts and she was among the first to arrive after a disaster. She not only loved her work and felt she was doing good in the world, she was very well paid. By the time she retired, she no longer felt good about the Red Cross. She felt the organization had changed, and not for the better. She's in Africa now, doing aid work.
 
My family has not been a fan of the Red Cross since family members that were in WWII came home with stories about how they were treated by the Red Cross. I have read some articles that dispute those claims and much has happened over the last 70 years so I can let those stories go. What I can't get my head around is what happened to the roughly 500 million dollars collected for the 2010 disaster in Haiti. Right or wrong I don't support the Red Cross.

Maybe I'm just becoming jaded in my old age but I'll let the government take care of disaster relief.

I'll stick to donating money to local groups in my community that have virtually no overhead.
 
My uncle said when he came back from the Philippines after WWII, when they got off the ship there was a line for the Red Cross and a line for Salvation Army. The Red Cross charged for anything the servicemen got from them while the Salvation Army gave everything away.
 
I watched a programme on TV the other night about a family from Siria who was reunited in England by the Red Cross,it was very moving and i thought what a good job they do .
But with all the conflict going on in the world they must be stretched to the limit.
Where all the money goes , well I cant say,paying wages and buying what is needed for the refugees i would imagine .
 
The Red Cross isn't an arm of the U.S. Government. Yes, they do have paid staff; but the bulk of the work is done by volunteers. And they are human beings, not saints; so they are flawed. Even though their aid may not be ideal, you'd have what without their aid?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
The Red Cross isn't an arm of the U.S. Government. Yes, they do have paid staff; but the bulk of the work is done by volunteers. And they are human beings, not saints; so they are flawed. Even though their aid may not be ideal, you'd have what without their aid?
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Obvious answer: FEMA. That's a scary thought.
 

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