How trustworthy is World Vision?

[Wendell_Wagner]

What I meant to say was:

If I were to choose between donating $500 to charity X, which will spend $67 on administrative costs and the other $433 on fighting poverty in some region, and donating $500 to charity Y, which will spend $67 dollars on administrative costs, $8 on seeing that I get regular letters from a child in that region who happens to be helped by the charity, and $425 on fighting poverty in that region, I would always choose charity X.

Sheesh. Can’t I ever get a post straight?

[Snnipe_70E]

@Wendell_Wagner

Johnny L.A., I would say the following to your SO, “Are your donations to charity about helping other people or about making you feel better? There are groups that evaluate charities that can tell you if your money is being used efficiently. As long as it is, why do you need to have someone tell you how important you are? If you need personal assurance that you’re helping someone, you need to donate your time to some group, not just your money. The charities that you just donate money to should use that money efficiently, and having to have someone send you a letter frequently is not the best way to do that.”

The letter is not always about “making you feel better”. One point of the letter is indicating that your money is being used as you were told it would. I can not speak about WV I do not have enough knowledge. We have a sponsored child in another organization. If I heard nothing I would begin to have my doubts. And the letter writing is a two way street. We are encouraged to write to our child. I have worked with youth organizations and have many kids. I love Facebook because years later I am able to watch their families grow. And I think I will also love the letters because of the same reason. I do not donate because it makes me feel good. But because it can help someone else.

[Wendell_Wagner]

The letters wouldn’t tell you for sure that your child was writing to you. It could be people in the charity writing the letters and signing them as the child. If anything, that would be easier to arrange than having the child write them.