Let's chip in to help the Philippines...post charities here.

you are severely misguided - or more likely- a total asshole.

thousands dead - millions might be homeless - and yea the Red Cross gives 90 percent to "government officials" - can you possibly be that fucking retarded?

VDbucks is right. And he isn't being a prick about it, he is speaking from a lot of experience dealing with that country and the people. That place is corrupt beyond belief. Even the most well known NGOs and charities have a lot of dirty hands in their pockets. There is money pouring into the Philippines all the time, but it all goes into filthy pockets.

If you're going to donate, I would only do so with the Red Cross. But even they are getting skimmed heavily just to operate there. Food and supplies get taken from them, re-sold, and so on. It's a tragic situation. It's African and Haiti level corruption, but in SE Asia.

Best that can happen to be honest is the USA or UN send in troops and aid to help them directly. In terms of money reaching it's target there, this is Haiti all over again.

It's heart breaking.

Food has to be stored in government warehouses at a high cost for security, so that only 1/2 gets resold out the backdoor. You want to fly aid into a province, then the governor gets a cut, and so on.

It too dangerous to go to that area, you need to take x amount of police with you at a cost of x and so on.

I've spent more time in the PI over the past 15 years than any other country combined. I think I know what I'm talking about.

How much time have you spent there? Jerking off to cam girls doesn't count. I'll wager you've never stepped foot out of your home country, probably not even the town you grew up in, so how about you stop acting like you have any clue as to what goes on over there.

Heartbreaking indeed. People who watch the devastation on the news think "man, that's sad" but the reality is, things are a million times worse than what is shown on tv because it's not just the devastation of the storm that fucks up their lives, it's the added devastation of their own government not giving 2 fucks about them whatsoever.

I can help since I am based here. But frankly, do not send your donation to the government if you give 100 the poor people will only get 10 of it. Sometimes none.

Please.. Wont someone think of the ladyboys?

Red Cross will do! But NGO's can't be! there are lots of NGO's which scamming their own kind and all of NGO's are being suspended recently due to PDAF scandal in the senate for ghost projects of NGO's.

It was obvious that you have experience in PI - I haven't been there but I know a lot about the Red Cross - and I have filled 3 Passports and traveled to more than 20 countries..including south east Asia more than 15 times. I live in Indonesia part time each year and personally witnessed the devastation of both the tsunami and the massive earthquake (aftermath)- and I've seen heroic selflessness of the Red Cross first hand.

For you to come in this thread and tell people not to bother donating any money to the Red Cross to help PI just shows that you are one callous and dumb asshole that doesnt know shit - and you certainly don't give a flying fuck about the people suffering in PI.

Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.org.ph

You should have just shut your ignorant mouth right there and went on about your day.

quoting this again just so no one misses what a low life piece of shit VDbucks (venereal disease bucks?)

Right now the Red Cross is busy setting up shelters and giving people water and saving many lives - dumb ass statements from brainless tools like VD are extremely counter productive as there are a lot of wealthy people on GFY - MANY of which made a lot of their money with help from Filipino Programmers and Designers.

Still haven't heard from my designer (worked for me for the last 8 years and I consider him a friend) Hope he and his kids are ok.

Continuing to prove your ignorance and utter stupidity.

Go ahead and send your money into the black hole if it makes you feel as though you've done a good deed and helps you sleep better at night. The truth of the matter though is you're just helping some corrupt official buy a new house. The people who are suffering will continue to suffer.

If you're so wealthy and really want to feel like you've done a good deed, get off your ass, take a trip down there and set up a private charity. And even then, you'll just see your money disappear into the abyss of corruption that plagues that entire country. I've been there and done that. Have you? No, you haven't.

Oh and good on ya for playing on the whole "Venereal Disease Bucks", not like it hasn't been played into the dirt a million times already.

Congrats on your complete lack of wit, knowledge and intelligence overall.

If you really truly gave a shit about the Philippines or it's people, where were you before the storm hit? Why didn't you give a shit before?

The truth is, you're a fucking fraud. I've held a very vested interest in the PI for over a decade. You on the other hand, you think that all of a sudden, now, because a bad storm hit the country and made front page on the international news that you're somehow helping the country by donating. Go ahead, if it makes you feel like a good person. The reality though is, as usual, a completely different story.

If contributing to the survival of our species is irresponsible, then yes, I am terribly, terribly irresponsible.

Hey adendreams... here, educate yourself a little: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...ence-and-faith

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

But, here's your pat on the back for caring when the storm hits the front page.

I wonder though, do you think anyone who has lost someone, lost their homes, everything they had in life during any of the terrible [insert typhoon name here] storms that hit the PI every single year give a shit that this one was the worst?

I also wonder, where were you, Mr. Goodwill, during any of those? Oh, right, nowhere to be found because none of those were "important" enough to make the front page.