Yes, I agree this must stop, Yes I forwarded the video to my principle at my school, and yes my school will hopefully be helping, but no I will not let our money we raise go to IC. I am going to do some research and find charities that send most (at least 90%) of the money to the cause. The video made by IC is great for opening eyes, but as been mentioned, IC is also using most of what they make to fund themselves and not help the Ugandan children. Anyone know of a responsible charity in which my school can send our money that we raise?
Honestly, no amount of charity money is going to lead to a quicker capture or elimination of Kony, anymore then it would have for Bin Laden. He is in hiding, and if his hiding place can be bought, then I'm sure the US intelligence services have already bought it. That is one of the several things that threw up a giant red flag for me on this IC charity. If that works, how come we didn't just have a big charity drive back in 2002 to find and kill Bin Laden.
The biggest killer of children and adults in central Africa is not warlords believe it or not. It's disease, AIDS, malaria, diptheria, yellow fever, malnutrition etc... The only African charities I know off the top of my head that are legit are Water.org (helps fund and develop clean water wells and systems) and Africare (which basically funds all kind of Peace Corp type projects). I'm sure there are many other though... find a charity where money goes direct to people on in Africa doing the work. The problem with so many charitable donations to Africa is that if the money goes through any kind of government agency, it just ends up lining the pockets of corrupt politicians and dictators.
Like others have said, eliminating ruthless warlords is all well and good, and there are plenty of them in around the world. But they are not the cause of central Africa's problems, they are a symptom.
