I will explain to you why i started my own gofundme campaign instead of providing the link of some local charity. Our country is full of corruption and dishonesty in politics and the innocent people are always the ones that are penalized. If any of the local charities receive 100 what will be realistically given is only 10 out of 100 and that is not why people want to help. When people donate it is because wen they donate 100 they expected to see at least 80 or 90 given to the needy people. This is not happening in Lebanon and will never happen unfortunately, because most of local charities are fake, led by wifes of local politicians to cover up a lot of the money laundering made by their husbands.
In fact a lot of the humanitarian aids (free aids) given by many countries are being SOLD to people and that is unacceptable!! The only way to help these poor people is by doing a civil volunteering workforce and the lebanese people understood that and are moving in this direction.
In fact if you look at what is happening right now. You will see civilians, young mans and ladies cleaning out streets, cleaning people houses, restoring whatever is possible to restore with donations given by other individuals without asking 1 single penny to local charities because they know that if they ask, nothing will be given to them.
With my campaign i want to do what local charities will never do, fund these actions, helping the needy families in restoring their houses, have what is needed to overcome this ugly situation. The only way is through empowering the REAL volunteers, the people of Lebanon.
I have contacts with several of these groups of volunteers many of my friends are helping there aswell. And funds will be devided in packages of 1000$ to each of these groups and i have already agreed with each of these groups to send me updates on what has been made with the funds, in order to post updates on the gofundme campaign and show people the power of their donations and the smile given back to people being able to access their houses again.
Would you like to be part of the team of this fundraising campaign? You seem emotionally very involved and it would be my pleasure having you in the team.
Yep, I'm just working out ways to help, but I think that we need some more detailed info off you first.
I'm am sure that you are legit, but I'm also sure that you realise how many not-so-genuine people take advantage of disasters like this to raise $$$ for themselves, so if you really are genuine and want to make this a success, then it would be in your best interests to actually show who these people are that you have contacted in Beirut and list the things that they intend to buy/ do with the money raised, otherwise people will never donate and you won't get the support from people like me to help because of the uncertainty.
Not a lot of people around the world have much money themselves- we've all lost our jobs- I lost mine on the 18th March and am surviving on very little, so people will not give away money unless they know that it is a reputable charity or who is taking the money and what is is going to be used for, so you really need to make a proper plan, get those details straight and make everything in your plan completely transparent so there no mystery, no confusion, no room for problems to arise, no way for any dodginess to occur and then when you have done that, you will have a much better chance of raising the amount of money that you want to.
The world already knows how dodgy and corrupt the govt is. The world already knows what the citizens of Beirut are doing to clean it up and help everyone, so that is not the questions that you need to answer first, you know.
The question are about you whole game plan from start to finish.
You live in Italy, so I'm sure you watch Soccer.
You are at the goalie at one end of the field and need to get your team to get the ball up to the other goal post at the other end to score.
So you are the Captain because you had this idea, created the gofundme page, and got all the players.
So who are the players, what are their positions and who are they going to get the ball there and what are they going to do with it at the end???
Just like a soccer team you need a detailed game plan to tell the donors, otherwise you won't get anyone to donate.
Do you understand the importance of this aspect?
Yes i totally agree and this is why i identified myself first of all in the gofundme campaign, that C.F. Is my tax identification number in Italy and there could be noone having that same code other than me.
Concerning the funds, these funds raised are going to people, no charities, no organizations. People i trust! I will be sharing the money transfer details through updates on the gofundme page. I understand people being sceptical in donating and if donating to a charity is what makes them donate then i would prefer closing my campaign because i would be helping in this robbery and not helping the needy people.
I would never give a single penny to any charity because most of the ones in lebanon will rob that money for themselves as they are already doing.
There is no reference or contact down there... My sister lives in Beirut and is going to receive that money and go to each of the houses being rebuilt by the volunteers and provide them with direct funding for whatever is needed to restore the house. That is my main goal. Let those poor people gain SAFE access again to their homes. Basically it is the same as you can see in the video i commented in your post. We want to provide funding to those who are really making something (the civilians who are volunteering and are on a daily basis on the streets) and not to fake charities.
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If you need any other information i will be more than happy to share it with you. I have nothing to hide, i am just a lebanese guy who has not that much financial power to really help out and is doing my best to reunite the good hearted people in this world to help out in this tragedy through gofundme.
yes I totally understand, but it's not me that you will need to convince- it's everyone else- if you want to get their donations.
And the best way to do that its to make you end game completely transparent, so everyone will know the answers to those important questions- the WHO/WHAT/WHY/HOW/WHEN
Yes i totally understand and am ready to provide whatever info is needed.
Do you use dicord? We can keep in touch there to better talk about the fundraising. Still no donations are made and they really need some help there. This is my discord username electronicsworld#0829
Yep cool, I'll talk to you tomorrow sometime. 👍