Not-quite fandom stuff

[ratherastory]

Y'know, I think it's awesome that Random Acts is trying to raise a ton of money for Haiti. God knows, that country needs all the help it can get in order to rebuild after last year's earthquake.

It's just... I am seriously uncomfortable at the idea of fans "raising" $5000 in order to go with Misha et al. to Haiti in order to have a more "personal connection" to what they're doing, or whatever. I just can't help but feel that that aspect of this fundraiser is entirely made of fail. The idea of a group of tourists (feel free to disagree with my nomenclature, but to me that's what they are) going over to witness how grateful the natives are for their munificence just sets my teeth on edge.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. After all, the money is going where it's supposed to, so it can't be all bad. It's just pushing several of my squick buttons.

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I have a hard time donating money to anything because I'm all too aware that many 'charitable' organizations only send a small portion of the money, or it ends up in a officials hands, or it only gets spent on a community that doesn't really need much help, or it's all a scam and they don't give any money. This is mostly why I never give money to door to door fundraising and phone callers asking for donations. Charity is tricky that way. Not that I entirely believe that Random Acts is fail-proof, but at least if they're going down there, they can see where their money is going, right? But yeah, 12 hour labouring to tourists... that amuses me to no end.