Trocaire kicked out of Pakistan

smurfjed

[font=Roboto_Regular, Arial, Georgia, serif]Among those being expelled are Action Aid, World Vision, Plan International, Trocaire, Pathfinder International, Danish Refugee Council, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Oxfam Novib, and Marie Stopes.[/font]
[font=Roboto_Regular, Arial, Georgia, serif]Talal Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Interior Affairs, told Reuters the reason for shutting down the NGOs was because they were doing work in Pakistan “which is beyond their mandate and for which they have no legal justification.”[/font]
[font=Roboto_Regular, Arial, Georgia, serif]He declined to give specific examples, but said the targeted NGOs spend “all their money” on administration, are not doing the work they said they were doing, and are working in areas where they were not authorized.[/font]

It's quite a charge that these organisations are spending all their money on administration.

Ulysses Gaze

smurfjed wrote: »

It's quite a charge that these organisations are spending all their money on administration.

i.e. not letting the Government or certain authorities "wet their beaks".

punisher5112

Wow someone missed the brown envelope meeting.....

Charity is a business and a very lucrative one at that.

D3V!L

Awww, did he not get his "Christmas bonus" !!

wakka12

Cant believe people still give money to charities
Give it somebody you know personally or a smaller local charity who helps the homeless, the poor, disabled, ill, elderly. Not some company who hide away your money and you don't know whats being done with it

Hector Bellend

Charity begins at home and ends in pakistan

suicide_circus

A Thiarna, dean trocaire!

Gatling

It's pretty well known the administration costs when it comes to various charities ,
In some cases its 70%+ of money raised goes on admin Vs actually helping people or communities ,
Red cross are a prime example of how it should be done

Gunmonkey

and are working in areas where they were not authorized

This part makes me think , with the way it is in India and Pakistan with their "caste" system, the charities were giving aid to those who had been shunned into the most desperate of poverty and that wouldnt stand for the government who saw them as less than animals.

But most likely they spent all their money on "admin" ie not bribes!

DrPhilG

India booted out a lot of charities last year purely because they were run by Christian or other church organisations.

Compassion had been running child sponsorship there for 25 years and had to just walk away because the government were blocking the money they were sending out.

Atoms for Peace

Seem like they are choosing who to boot on ideological and sectarian grounds given the charities selected.

corner of hells

Gatling wrote: »

It's pretty well known the administration costs when it comes to various charities ,
In some cases its 70%+ of money raised goes on admin Vs actually helping people or communities ,
Red cross are a prime example of how it should be done

Which ones spend 70+ on admin ?

Mr.Micro

All crooks. Never believed any of their bs. The gullible conscience driven public will keep on giving so that the crooks can live a life of ease. They are everywhere at this time of year ads, radio, the net.

DrPhilG

Trocaire are scoundrels.

My dad became unwell this year and I had to start looking after his finances.

Discovered that he had a €25 monthly direct debit to Trocaire this last 4 years. He knew nothing about it but clearly someone from Trocaire has smooth talked him into signing up and took advantage of his old age and gullibility.

elperello

There are plenty of genuine well run charities which are worthy of support.

Do your due diligence and open your wallet if you can afford to.

Absolutely no need to cast aspersions on all charities because of a few bad eggs.

ToddyDoody

I find it funny that trocaire includes tacklng the aids crisis in the third world as one of its objectives yet the Catholic Church is against the use of Condoms both here and in the third world.

JiminyRickets

Charity starts at home. So dig deep into your left pocket and then transfer it, with a moment of surreal realisation, into your right pocket.

Literally everyone wins.

Atlantic Dawn

And they won't encourage the use of rubbers either on lands where people are breeding like rabbits to an insustainable level.

JiminyRickets

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

And they won't encourage the use of rubbers either on lands where people are breeding like rabbits to an insustainable level.

No big deal, all the surplus is siphoned off to Europe anyway. Whats the downside?

Spanish Eyes

Where is the quote from OP?

Have to say that outfits like Trocaire and many others from Ireland are in ADDITION to the many millions of taxpayer funded Foreign Aid we also supply.