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We have no qualms about pulling out our wallets and donating generously to what we think are worthy projects, worthy people, and worthy nonprofit, apolitical organizations whose only aims are to sponsor orphans, build wells, improve irrigation, provide food and shelter (especially at the time of major disasters and famines), and labor ceaselessly to improve the lot of the poor, destitute, and impoverished living in the Third World and Africa, espe- cially Africa..
Probing deep into the workings of these inviolable institutions, such as CARE, USAID, Save the Children, and UNHCR, he highlights an utterly seamy side: a spectacular waste of funds, a fraudulent record of accounts, sensational salaries and lifestyles of the directors, a complete disregard for the recipients or their children, and the creation and funding of "projects" that are so badly managed and so utterly unsuited to the geography of the country and needs of the people that they often do far more harm than good, leaving the recipients in a worse state than when they found them.
Maren illustrates how a pseudo colonial world is created through the establishment of a string of clean, well stocked, leisure clubs where the aid workers spend most of their time socializing instead of working and a set of guarded compounds where they choose to live complete with all modem conveniences such as refrigerators, TVs, and videos.
Maren points out that this is a highly abused source of revenue for the aid agencies as the logistics alone are so great that, as he claims, aid organizations do not bother sending specific funds to specific children who in actual fact see very little of this money and indeed in a large majority of cases none of it at all!