I want to visit these countries and experience the various cultures in South East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia), but if I go, I would like to also donate something that would help the people there the most.
I don't feel good donating money, because as I've done it before, I doubt that it ever gets spent the right way.
At first, I thought about buying $15,000 worth of Nike's for the children, but then I thought, the children will probably have their new shoes stolen as soon as I turned my back. Same thing with clothes or toys.
Maybe medicine, and medical supplies? But how do I arrange that? Do I need a prescription? A prescription for $15,000 worth of various medicines? And where do I dispense it when I get there?
What items do the people there desperately need, which I can help give them, without worrying that it ends up in the wrong hands?
2006-07-18
15:51:17
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Finar C
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