The rules of charity: 8 tips, how not to help

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Americans and immigrants from former Soviet republics often help residents of the CIS countries, choosing a wide variety of ways to do this. Philanthropists are especially active during the holidays in order to provide a joyful New Year and Christmas to people from these countries. But helping those in need is not always a good deed; charity must be done correctly.

Edition "So it goes" gathered advice from benefactors on how not to help the inhabitants of the CIS countries.

1. Do not repost unverified information

Often you distribute outdated information or help scammers who deliberately publish phishing posts: the dying child is real, but the account details are not. It’s better to subscribe to the public pages of charitable foundations - then your activity will benefit.

Tatyana Zadirako, Executive Director of the Road Together Charitable Foundation: “You need to look at documents, check accounts and help only those who are not in doubt. You need to turn on the brain. The brain, not the heart. "

2. Do not transfer money to personal accounts of strangers.

Firstly, fraudsters often substitute details, and secondly, fees in social networks are often held without medical expertise: money can be collected for treatment that will not work. In addition, having collected hundreds of thousands for treatment, a person is faced with the temptation to spend them for other purposes. Are known caseswhen money collected for the treatment of a child was spent on a cow or new windows.

3. Do not give alms to all who ask her

66% of Russian citizens give alms However, it is known that the whole city is divided by the organizers of the "begging mafia". Most of the proceeds of professional beggars give the so-called looking, and they instead feed them and give them an overnight stay. If you feel that a person really needs help, talk to him, find out what his problem is before you apply to him.

Vladimir Berhin, President Charity Fund "Tradition": “If you see a person and want to help, you should not just throw money, but come and ask what he needs and offer to solve the problem without giving money. The fraudster will refuse such help. At one time, we printed several hundred cards with the coordinates of the foundation and a proposal to apply if we needed help, and distributed to beggars on the street - almost no one called and did not come. ”

4. Do not give money to volunteers on the street

Fraudsters register a charity organization for cover, recruit students or schoolchildren there, give them a transparent box and send them to the streets as “volunteers”. Remember: no serious fund collects money from passersby. Is that at concerts and festivals, in which case it is always coordinated with the organizers.

5. Do not give away unnecessary or unwashed things.

In 2015, fire victims from Khakassia, in addition to clothing and medicine, have sent several pididasters, a clown suit and a simulator for the elasticity of the female breast. Volunteers who collect things for victims of disasters, reject kilograms of torn and dirty clothes. You can only share things that you feel sorry to share.

6. Do not work with amateur volunteers

Volunteers are not just people who have decided to help someone, but people who have been trained and trained by experts from proven charities. A group of enthusiasts acting alone and unorganized can only harm.

Elena Alshanskaya, President of the Volunteers to Help Orphans Fund: “If they tell you:“ Come back tomorrow, meet at the bus stop and go to the orphanage ”- this is a bad story. Beautiful people can do it, but even if everything is nice and good, such help can be harmful. Any activity involves familiarity with its basics: what kind of children in this orphanage, how to interact with them and the staff, what is right and what is not. You can't just come from the street. ”

7. Do not support toxic charity

Agents toxic charity they are hysterical around sick children, parasitize on feelings of guilt and morally blackmail relatives.

They not only spoil the image of charity, but harm the beneficiaries: they are sent to expensive private blades when they can get by with the state, they send hopeless cancer patients to high-dose chemotherapy, and they blame the deaths of abandoned mothers.

Vladimir Berhin: “In groups of toxic charity there is a constant hysteria. There are not always grounds for collecting medical documents, an eternal mess with the bills is going on. The people who do this create a kind of sect around a specific collection, and those who ask questions are immediately doused with mud. Under this sauce, you can collect money for anything. Often a person is taken in the terminal stage of the disease. He is collected funds for expensive treatment abroad, he flies there, dies. And the unspent money that the clinic returns, the collectors use at their discretion. ”

8. Do not give money to unreliable organizations

«gift a life","Together","Need Help» Blago.ru, Welcome.mail.ru keep your own list of funds you can trust. The work of these organizations is transparent, reporting is clear, each collection is confirmed by expertise. The assistance provided through such a fund has a high efficiency. There are funds in these lists that help orphans and organizations that train volunteers.

Such organizations organize help to the needy every day. If you want to help, start right now with a regular donation.

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