Oxfam: $1.9B in Ebola Aid Not Delivered by Donors

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Jan 31, 2016, 8:17 AM ET

International donors have failed to deliver $1.9 billion in promised funds to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people and decimated already weak health care systems, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam said Sunday.

The remaining $3.9 billion pledged has been difficult to track because of "scant information" and a lack of transparency, the group said.

"We're finding it hard to understand which donors have given what money, to whom and for what purpose," said Aboubacry Tall, Oxfam's regional director for West Africa.

Oxfam called on donors and the governments of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea — the three hardest-hit countries — to provide detailed information on how aid is being provided.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/oxfam-19b-ebola-aid-delivered-donors-36624940

[Festivito]

1. We've taken from indians, slaves, other countries, each other, ... this is what's next.

Taking from the poorest most hurt people on earth.

[LiberalArkie]

2. There is usually not much to give when executives of the foundations have such

payrolls and travel expenses. Some have administrative costs as high as 80%. Then they purchase the items they are donating from themselves at high costs, so not much ever ends up with the needy.

[Festivito]

4. They share with the rest of us the crumbs of such theivery. eom

[Tanuki]

5. I'm guessing you don't know much about Oxfam, the organization in the article.

They have a long history of transparency in regard to their finances and some of their advocacy issues will probably surprise you. I hate to see reflexive trashing of people who are actually doing good work, often in unimaginably difficult circumstances.
https://www.oxfam.org/

[LiberalArkie]

7. What I am really referring to perhaps is who Oxfam may get to do some work for them.

[dembotoz]

3. promise her anything......but give her well nothing

[Sunlei]

6. Even a very good charity like Oxfam gets scammed now over 'pledges'

[6chars]

8. oops