As you read below post many conservative Americans may enjoy this speech given by conservative MEP in Europe.
Related: Ministries from across America respond to Haiti. Just check out these email updates in the past couple of days from various conservative Christian groups alone.
Back in July of 2008 was posted a post at Values Voter News titled US stinginess in foreign aide?/Organized Christianity abuses power and money?/Big Business' portrayed as corrupt? in which was stated in warning to the message in the post that:
"This is not to say Americans are better then others in generosity in foreign aid for they are still 6th not number 1 in foreign aide when counting in other then governmental aid but rather this is to be viewed as a response to American criticism that we are dead last in foreign aid. It is to balance out some of the media negativity with some interesting points on the otherside of the issue..."
Haiti is another example that is proving the point in that post. Namely, that the US gives as much as any other country for foreign aid per person when you tally in both governmental aid and non governmental aid.
American charities have raised $774 million to Haiti as of 02/17/2010 according to tally by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. This only accounts for donations to some 40 US non-profit organizations. I reviewed the list to see if Operation Blessing or Samaritans Purse were on that list and they were not. These three good sized charities are not even included. So this tally of $774 million is quite short of what the actual donations are especially when you also consider the churches that are helping out and missionaries.
As far as corporate America the donations as of 02/17/2010 equate to about $146.8 million according to US Chamber of Commerce.
So as of 02/17/2010 there has been a tally of $920.8 million in aid to Haiti. Again, this does not include many other organizations and the tally of church groups or other small groups like the one in the video below:
Rescue Haiti's Children: How the Body of Christ Has Come Together In Haiti from Douglas Phillips on Vimeo.
