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How Donating to Disaster Relief Can Do More Harm Than Good | Juanita Rilling

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What if you found out your disaster relief donation did more harm than good? Juanita Rilling explains the humanitarian logistics of unwanted donations, and how you can give in a more informed way.
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Transcript - There are two aspects to every donation. There is the emotional/spiritual side which is all good and there’s the practical/material side which is very tricky. The emotional/spiritual side is people giving to people who are hurting which has spiritually evolved in civilization saving that is all really good. But a donation is a material thing in a situation where material things have to be prioritized. There’s no emotion in humanitarian logistics. Anything that is not needed gets in the way and so people’s donations can actually prevent people on the ground from getting the help that they need.
After a major disaster there really are no flat, dry spaces to put things. And so if there are flat, dry spaces the relief organizations need them to stage and manage and deliver emergency supplies. So if it’s raining used clothing and canned food and bottled water all of that has to be moved aside and it’s in the elements because there really is no climate controlled storage after a disaster, not for a long time. If there is it’s used for medicines. So all of this donated goods, these donated goods sit in the elements and they degrade. The clothing gets moldy, the cans open up, these big piles become a haven for rats and snakes and therefore a health hazard for anyone who has to deal with them. And moving all of the stuff out of the way and managing it is relief workers taking relief workers time and heavy equipment and money away from the response. So all of these resources that are used to manage unneeded donations are being taken basically from survivors. Read Full Transcript Here: .
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