I moved to St Petersburg, Russia in 1989. The place was a mess. It was a few years removed from the break up of the Soviet Union and their cancer wards were filled with people dying of leukemia, etc after Chernobyl. I went there to bring in medical aid, including medication that was tremendously effective in treating leukemia. We also brought in food and clothing aid.
What I witnessed completely broke my heart. Almost none of the food and clothing aid went to its purpose. Not even 10% of it. There was a pecking order for the vultures who would take their bounty from the containers - customs, city officials, Orthodox Church, market sellers. At the end, you had a few torn shirts and unmatched shoes. That went to the needy. The food was the same.
We had to pay tremendous fees to "Consultants" and brand all the distribution boxes for the Orthodox Church to get the medication off the dock. then, the Church SOLD it to the hospitals.
I have lived in Russia, Ukraine, Kenya and Ghana. It's the same everywhere. Foreign aid, whether sovereign or private, is a massive money laundering scam. It actually makes the lives of the actual people much worse. Those profiting from our conscience-salving donations are financially motivated to make human suffering as bad as possible to perpetuate their racket.
Red Cross, US Aid, all the pathetic billionaire foundations, 100% of all of it - scam. You can tell they are a scam, because they are still in operation. There are millions of wonderful small scale operations. 100% of large scale operations are money laundering, life destroying, human trafficking scams.
True.
And they suck in billions a year from the gullible with their telethons and disaster emergency campaigns where they get an ‘ actor’ to speak on their behalf.
This actor if they prove themselves have the opportunity to be rewarded with titles such as a UN goodwill ambassador.
This involves a 25 years old passed their sell by date pop star flying into a squatter camp in Kenya etc. The kids have no clue as to who this person is, but are probably told they are from England and know the Queen etc
The kids all mob them for the camera. The celeb then does a piece for the camera where they flap there hands to wipe away the fake tears.
The celeb has been paid to fly out, have a week at a 5 star compound, with 3 days in Dubai as a bonus.
If it goes well they get elevated into the goodwill bullshit.
They spin this out in the U.K. every year.