Donate with Australian Red Cross or Australia for UNHCR and the Australian Govt. will match your donation (upto $5 million)

Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 08:29

Moved to Forum: Original Link

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a deal. Mods, please move it to forums if not a deal, thanks.

As listed on ABC appeals, the Australian Government has announced that it will match a dollar for dollar (upto $5million) of donations made to the Rohingya crisis via either of:
- Australian Red Cross
- Australia for UNHCR

Political discussions aside, we know that the crisis is real and 'human beings' are suffering. If you were thinking of helping, then this is a great opportunity to DOUBLE your impact.

Good to know: As mentioned on each of their pages, the Australian Red cross claim that "Australian Red Cross ensures that at least 90% of funds raised for an international appeal are spent directly on our emergency response programs. Our appeal and administration costs vary depending upon the type and scale of activity, but do not exceed 10% of funds raised." Source: Australian Red Cross.
And as mentioned on Australia for UNHCR website, 82% of the funds raised are used on Humanitarian programs. Source: Australia for UNHCR.

Thanks for donating!

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  • android iOS on 20/11/2017 - 08:36
    +2

    Better than people harassing me in the shopping centres

  • toasty on 20/11/2017 - 08:38
    +5

    Doubling the impact of my donation is definitely a bargain. Thanks for sharing OP!

    • Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 08:52
      +1

      Thanks, I saw it that way too :)

  • omgitzrick on 20/11/2017 - 08:39
    +1

    If I donate blood can I make the government match that?

    • Thrift on 20/11/2017 - 09:25
      +1

      I'm sure they'd consider it if they collected up to 45% of our blood every year.

    • tassieeagle on 20/11/2017 - 12:12
      +4

      Can't get blood out of a stone

  • Sage on 20/11/2017 - 09:34

    Greater saving if you don't donate at all.

    • Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 09:55
      +6

      I didn't neg you, but I guess we should be glad that we are in a position where we can make a call if we want to donate or not. I surely don't want to be in the position of those refugees where my life and more importantly my children's lives depend on whatever help and generosity that people with better lives will show. Where getting a bowl of rice will feel like winning a jackpot, where every extra day that my infant survives, I feel thankful.

      Sure, by not donating we will make a greater saving to then use for that new iphone or ipad.

  • cnmarine on 20/11/2017 - 11:45
    -1

    I've never understood donations, it's like paying money for nothing.

    • Rumbaar on 20/11/2017 - 13:32
      +1

      I guess you've never been the recipient of program funded by charitable donations, which is a nice thing. But a lot of people, even in Australia, rely heavily on the help of strangers via charitable donations.

  • Diji1 on 20/11/2017 - 11:49
    +1

    Why is Australia donating to this?

    We have a policy of interning legal refugees in concentration camps where widespread physical and sexual abuse occurs. This is in direct contravention to the UN Human Rights Charter that we supposedly agreed to as well as making this money donation (profanity) stupid. What's it going to be used for - fixing the broken people that the Australian government is creating whilst pretending to be a good member of the UN Human Rights Charter?

    Give me a (profanity) break.

    • Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 12:02
      +1

      Hey Diji1, I understand and totally agree with your comment. But while the government is not changing their stance on our own asylum seekers, at least they are doing something good here by helping out with the Rohingya crisis (as I see it). I don't have much hope of Australia's asylum seeker situation changing much under Mr. Dutton :(

      • resisting the urge on 20/11/2017 - 14:21
        +1

        It is because incoming and incumbent gubmints like to cut expenditures that can be promoted in such a way as they can be newly perceived in an unpopular way.

        After all, if they weren't popular when the decision to donate was made, it would not have happened.

        However there very quickly comes a time when they want to exert influence internationally (e.g. to buy a friendly mining company influence in a third world country) when they need to show the nation's generosity. Instead of relying on past credentials to do this, they find they lost their(our) standing, so they very quickly offer to stump up taxpayers monies.

        Right at this moment I would guess that the foreign minister made clear at a recent part meeting and is greasing the pipe for another 'big donation' to get an unknown south pacific nation to do something we want with some people we don't want.

        The more taxpayers that voluntarily contribute where the rest of us withdrew our donations after the last few rounds of cuts to foreign aid, the more our foreign minister's people can offer over dinner and cigars, and the better the gubmint looks domestically (aren't they nice, donating food advice and weapons to those poor starving folk, despite the fact that we now have to pay out far more to repair the damage of redirecting our foreign budget to cover the cost of bungled holidayconcentration camps for unwelcomed refugees whose only crime was to see that we had forgotten about our Northern borders around the time that Britain stopped sending convicts (and barely noticed the Japanese in 1942), despite the development of radar, satellites in the 1960s, aerial surveillance in the 1970s, computers, and so on…

  • fullmetal on 20/11/2017 - 11:51

    How does this work? I donate $$ and the government which is funded by taxpayers money is donating? Does it means I am donating twice?

    • Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 11:56
      +1

      In a matter of speaking, yes.
      Edit: You are paying your taxes anyway, there is no way around it unless you are big corporation and can swindle money through tax havens (eg. NIKE). With this scenario, if you donated $100, you are technically donating $200 as the government will put in $100 as well. You can think of it that it came out of your tax money and thus you donated twice.

    • retiredfeline on 20/11/2017 - 12:04
      +3

      Australian government aid as a percentage of GDP has never been generous, only 0.23%, or 23¢ in $100, and has been cut from previous levels by successive governments. Other first world countries do much better.

      https://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-that-give-the-most-…
      https://www.oxfam.org.au/what-we-do/aid-and-development/camp…

      Some of us would like to help more in our own capacity. But it's your call.

      • Aniseed Steed on 20/11/2017 - 12:24

        Let's hope the civic-minded people of Australia can take up the slack for their shameful government and its woeful policies.

        • kahn on 21/11/2017 - 18:16

          Sure, but there's another way of looking at these kind of donations. They can be viewed as a penalty for altruistic people or an incentive for selfish people. Caring people will fork over their cash while others will get to keep theirs. This current scheme seems to be some kind of PR stunt, maybe with a view of appeasing some wealthy or influential Muslims. As others have alluded to, Australian governments don't have a great record on human rights.

    • Rumbaar on 20/11/2017 - 13:36

      Yes, just like there is a fuel excise tax and then you pay GST on that tax when you buy the fuel.

  • stargalaxy on 20/11/2017 - 12:02
    +1

    I already donating thru my taxes that have been used for this purposes.

  • GetOffMyUnicorn on 20/11/2017 - 12:40

    George Soros has involvement with the UNHCR so they wont get a cent from me. I'd prefer my government to give back to Australians first and foremost.

    I'd also prefer my government to double the impact they have on Australian lives.

    • Rumbaar on 20/11/2017 - 13:41
      +3

      There are other NGO's in that list, and Australian based charities with programs based in Australia. I suggest you take a look at those, and you can donate to Australian based programs.

      • GetOffMyUnicorn on 20/11/2017 - 13:45

        I'd donate directly, charity is a very personal choice, I don't want other peoples tax money going to my charity of choice and vive-versa. Having said that thank you for the advice, much appreciated.

        • Porco Rosso on 20/11/2017 - 14:20

          Definitely is! Helping out first hand definitely beats giving money to charities. But regarding "I don't want other peoples tax money going to my charity of choice", I believe you are mistaken. The Australian government will only match donations for the Rohingya crisis donated to either of Australian Red Cross or UNHCR, Australia. If you donate to other NGOs in the list as Rumbaar said, Australian government won't be matching those donations.
          But it still is a personal choice :)

        • GetOffMyUnicorn on 20/11/2017 - 14:27

          @Porco Rosso: Rumbaar didn't mention anything regarding governments and matching donations. I'd still donate directly once I have thoroughly vetted a charity. I don't trust my government with money, period.

  • HighAndDry on 20/11/2017 - 13:13
    +1

    If I donate blood, can I finally get the blood-sucking leaches to bleed?

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