I used to donate to World Vision until they came out with one-sided criticisms of Israel. I tried to donate to World Vision on condition that the money go to a needy Jewish child in Israel but they would not take my money under such conditions. Because of her huge military burdens, Israel is still in many ways a poor country so there are many needy Jewish families there. I am afraid that ALL the well-known "aid" organizations must be regarded as very dubious conduits for actual aid. There are however Jewish charities which aim to help poor Israeli families and my negative remarks must not be taken as applying to them.
THREE years after Australians donated $400 million to rebuild Asian lives devastated by the 2004 tsunami, aid groups are under attack for spending much of the money on social and political engineering. A survey by The Australian of the contributions by non-government organisations to the relief effort found the donations had been spent on politically correct projects promoting left-wing Western values over traditional Asian culture.
The activities - listed as tsunami relief - include a "travelling Oxfam gender justice show" in Indonesia to change rural male attitudes towards women. Another Oxfam project, reminiscent of the ACTU's Your Rights at Work campaign, instructs Thai workers in Australian-style industrial activism and encourages them to set up trade unions.
A World Vision tsunami relief project in the Indonesian province of Aceh includes a lobbying campaign to advance land reform to promote gender equity, as well as educating women in "democratic processes" and encouraging them to enter politics. Also in Aceh, the Catholic aid group Caritas funds an Islamic learning centre to promote "the importance of the Koran". This is seen as recognition of the importance of Islam in a province that has been the scene of a long-running and bloody independence struggle against the secular central Government....
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Posted by John Ray
This article by Ean Higgins at The Australian is an example of right-wing propaganda. The article failed to mention that only a very small proportion of the money went to projects addressing gender inequality in the region. I wrote about this article myself (with a very different perspective of course) and I will say it again here, since when has human rights and the equitable treatment of women and girls purely a left-wing political concern? Australian Newspaper Criticises Tsunami Relief Organisations
ReplyDeleteNO BLOG IN THE WORLD HAS ARGUED MORE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN THE ISLAM-MISOGYNIST WORLD.
ReplyDeleteWE OPPOSE TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALIST GROUPS - LIKE THE UN - USING MONEY DONATED FOR AID FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
I THINK THIS WAS CLEAR.