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Charity has suffered a crisis of trust, and charities have been exposed to scandals of corruption and squandering of charitable funds, which is shocking. The revelation of the truth about a hemophilia patient relief program is a big surprise. Want to know how the story behind it develops? Let's look down!
Philanthropy has suffered a crisis of trust
Public welfare is a sign of social progress, and charities and public welfare organizations are the most active force in public welfare, they help people in need by launching fundraising activities, and at the same time will monitor some unfair phenomena in society. However, in recent years, charities have been exposed to frequent scandals of corruption and squandering of charitable funds, which have not only not been effectively stopped, but have become more and more serious, and have also damaged the public's trust in charities.
Many projects have raised hundreds of thousands
Some criminals have taken a fancy to the characteristics of high fundraising for charitable projects, and have taken advantage of their accumulated connections in the charity circle to set up false projects through various means to build momentum and publicity, and can raise hundreds of thousands of donations in just a few days. A typical example of this is the Hemophilia Patient Relief Program.
The information released by the project includes many details, such as hemophilia is a hereditary disease, which is difficult for patients to treat, and it is easy for some accidental injuries to lead to life-threatening injuries. Because of the poverty of their families, hemophilia patients can only choose to give up treatment after learning about their condition and spend the rest of their lives in pain. So the aim of this project is to help these people with haemophilia in distress and give them hope for treatment again.
Some people use large donations to gain fame
And the operation of the project is also quite standardized, all donations go into a specially set up account, which is checked by an accountant. At the end of the project, there will be a public report on the use of the donation, detailing what each money has been spent.
In view of the previous crisis of trust in charities has formed public opinion pressure, so this time the project party has raised 230,000 yuan in less than a month after the release of the information, seeing the more and more in the account, the project team is happy and began to think about how to spend the money.
Originally, it was planned to raise 300,000 yuan in one month
In the beginning, they did buy the clotting factors that the patients needed as described in the project. But the remaining hundreds of thousands of funds made them have more ideas, such as in order to make this project go further, it is not too much to spend more money on publicity; For example, the use of funds is flexible, even if there is no clear plan, but being able to find a way to help patients can be regarded as contributing to the public welfare.
But the money was not used for public welfare
But what is unbelievable is that among so many options for spending money, the project team chose singing, which seems to have nothing to do with helping hemophilia patients. Specifically, a choir of a dozen young people was formed and the choir was equipped with expensive instruments. In addition, there are rehearsal venues, costumes, event expenses, etc.
These already make people feel like a waste of donations
The choir also recruited a vocal teacher to guide the students to practice singing. According to the fund flow table sorted out later, it can be seen that the teacher's labor fee alone is as high as 95,650 yuan.
What's even more outrageous is that the money was only given to the other party for one month's salary
The choir did not have a single formal rehearsal or performance event. It is not known where the money ends up, but it is certain that it has nothing to do with helping hemophiliacs.
Stricter regulation and transparency
The incident caused a great sensation after it was exposed, and public opinion began to discuss how to regulate the management of charities. Because similar cases are not uncommon, in some unknown public welfare projects, the money used for public welfare causes is squandered on personal consumption.
Often, only the promoters themselves benefit
Without media exposure, reports on the use of donations are likely to serve as a model for industry insiders to learn from each other on how to cover up profligacy. Even if the media exposes it, these criminals can get away with it without the relevant departments intervening in the investigation.
The Women's Development Fund of the Eastern Powers launched a project to help patients with haemophilia in distress
What is even more frightening is that there are more and more cases like this, and the public has no trust in charities anymore. Public welfare undertakings that originally hoped to help others and help social progress have become despicable and shameless, and it has become a new fashion to fish in troubled waters and squander public funds. So how exactly should this problem be solved?
Supervision by public opinion can play a great role
In fact, to fundamentally solve the problem, it is ultimately up to the relevant departments to strengthen management and supervision. If the charity knows that it will be subject to public scrutiny and scrutiny by the relevant authorities at any time, then there will be no next time when it wants to squander donations.
The Women's Development Fund of the Eastern Powers launched a project to help patients with haemophilia in distress
However, whether it can be effectively stopped and cracked down depends on the attitude of the regulatory authorities. At present, some lawbreakers have escaped punishment, not because the relevant departments have not discovered their violations.
The Women's Development Fund of the Eastern Powers launched a project to help patients with haemophilia in distress
But for various reasons, the relevant departments chose to let it go
We call for strengthening public opinion supervision and guidance
Or it may seem that the problem is serious on the surface, but in fact it is taken lightly. If it is not rectified in time, then similar incidents are likely to continue to occur in the future.
The Women's Development Fund of the Eastern Powers launched a project to help patients with haemophilia in distress
At the same time, it also improves the public's right to know
On the one hand, the regulatory authorities are required to effectively manage and supervise charities; On the other hand, it is necessary for the relevant departments to issue regulations and laws to protect the public's right to know.
epilogue
Public welfare undertakings are supposed to be above board and helpful, but the reality is chilling. For the management and supervision of charities, we need stricter requirements and higher transparency, so that public welfare can return to its original intention and truly benefit society. What are your thoughts on the management of charities? Come and leave a comment to share your thoughts!