Chris’ thoughts NGO’s (Non Government Organisations)

While we have traveled in D9210 we saw a lot of activities of both large and small NGO’s. The large NGO’s make themselves very obvious by the purchase of new white 4x4’s for most of their staff and shop fronts and offices. On seeing these many of us wondered how they are able to afford these, so after some question asking, to staff of these organisations, government departments, and other people, we were very disappointed to hear that many of the large organisations have a very poor success rate of spending a large percentage of their funds on the people they are meant to be assisting. So please next time you think of supporting any of the large NGO’s with a financial donation, ask them what percentage of their funding actually goes to the people they are trying to assist, after admin charge in the country where the donation has been made, and on staff, administration and other costs in the country where they are assisting people.

If they are honest you may be surprised (and very disappointed).

It says a lot about the strength of donations to the smaller NGO’s and community organisations, who are often are the ones that local governments look to for real support.