What is the breakdown by country of contributions made by non-US
government, non-US NGOs, and non-US disaster relief organizations to
aid America disaster relief efforts for September 11 and/or the
Oklahoma City bombing.
In other words, what countries sent money, food, equipment, people,
medicine to help us when we were in need, and how much did they send?
In particular, I would like to see data from countries where the US
has made substanital relief efforts in the past (e.g. Sub-saharan
Africa, SE Asia, Eastern European & Former Soviet countries, South and
Centeral America, etc) rather than Western Europe.
Ideally it would look something like this:
People Medicine Money Sources
Zimbabwe <100 None <$250K Gov't, various
private citizens
Uganda None None None
Columbia >$1M Yes <$10M Gov't, religous,
private
Cambodia >$500K None <$1M religious, NGOs (name
of NG)
The data can be broad.
I am looking for support for the belief that while the US gives
billions to help others we receive little or nothing during our time
of need so countries that gave zero are of particular interest (no
matter how small or poor). |
Clarification of Question by
witchel-ga
on
24 Jun 2002 08:56 PDT
This admittedly icy question is one of moral authority not tit for
tat.
The full hypothesis is this: "The US receives an enormous amount of
criticism as a world-leader for it's often self-serving, politically
motivated knee-jerk foreign policies. However, while so-called
governmental "aid", "loans", and other politically motivated efforts
from inside the Washington beltway are not above reproach, the
billions of dollars and services donated each year by ordinary US
citizens in the form of NGO's, fraternal and religious groups, and
state, local, community, and student-lead relief efforts to help ease
the suffering of people world-wide is indeed above reproach.
We as a people we have come to the aid of many, yet few came to our
aid in our hour of need. How can any nation that failed to provide a
single measurable contribution no matter how small, find the moral
authority to criticize America's leadership?"
A Kenyian tribe offering cattle ought to be more than enough for
anybody. Since there are hundreds of countries with thousands of such
stories, I had to restrict this question to just those countries who
failed to find even a single head of cattle.
In my final report I will certainly recognize that some countries
simply cannot afford even a postage stamp on a postcard that says best
of luck. However if the country could afford entry fees to the World
Cup, yet couldn't find a find a postage stamp, the moral authority to
criticize America's leadership was sold for want of the postage stamp.
Perhaps my query is a compete folly and not one country failed to come
to our side during this difficult time. Please show me that's true,
I'll sleep better.
-j
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