That facebook group does highlight some serious issues with the Invisible Children "charity" if you will. However, if you can solidly prove a charity that isn't like that then I will give you a cookie. All charities do this. It's an unfortunate part about charities. If you really want to do REAL charity work, spend your money going to Uganda and help there. Otherwise, your money you donate will be whittled away by the organization, governments, etc that the money is funneled through. Only a slight bit will actually reach the people of it's purpose. Despite the misguided spending on Invisible Children's part, I do admire the fact that they have utilized possibly one of the most powerful tools currently available - the internet. Whilst in high school, I never learned anything regarding Africa. I shit you not. The atrocities of corrupt African governments, rebel groups and war lords were left out of my text books. Anything I learned was by reading myself (having a particular interest in cultures about the world). And even then, it's hard to distinguish fact from opinion (because let's face it, 90% of "fact" is just opinion spread out to look like fact, even in text books, encyclopedias, and on the internet). So it makes me sad how few people know about the horrors of living in an African country - such as Uganda. But it isn't just Uganda that is riddled with horrible, corrupt government and rebel groups. Anyways, I'm just glad that someone is bringing light to the serious, terrifying institutions that get away with murder daily in a continent long since forgotten. Remembering there are still countries with this level of disparity compared to say the United States, or Britain, or Germany, etc is important for all generations of people. That's just my two cents about the issue. Thanks for posting this on Codex. ^^
I totally agree, but I don't think it should be spread out in a plethora of misguided lies. See: "For context, 31% is bad. By contrast, Direct Relief reports 98.8% of its funding goes to programming. American Red Cross reports 92.1% to programming. UNICEF USA is at 90.3%. Invisible Children reports that 80.5% of their funding goes to programming, while I report 31% based on their FY11 fiscal reports, because other NGOs would count film-making as fundraising expenses, not programming expenses." - http://theeducatedfi.../we-got-trouble


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