Resources: Donation Hall of Shame
Introduction
- Good Intentions Are Not Enough
- Wadhams, Nick. “Bad Charity? (All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!)” Time.com. 12 May 2010.
Old Shoes
- Schimmelpfennig, Saundra. “Donating shoes and other aid fads” Goodintentionsarenotenough.com. 28 September 2009.
- Shaikh, Alanna. “Nobody wants your old shoes: How not to help in Haiti” Aidwatchers.com. 16 January 2010.
Used Soap
- “Former Refugee Recycles US Hotel Soap For Uganda” Cbsnews.com. 12 October 2009.
- The Global Soap Project
“Dog Food”
Sweaty Yoga Mats
Killer Baby Formula
- “Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in Haiti” Unicef.org. 21 January 2010.
- Schimmelpfennig, Saundra. “Four reasons to NOT donate baby formula overseas” Goodintentionsarenotenough.com. 28 August 2009.
- Shaikh, Alanna. “Don’t Send Baby Formula to Darfur” Globalpoverty.change.org. 12 April 2009.
Expired/ Inappropriate Medication
- Drugdonations.org
- “Drug Donations”. Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance: Technical Guidelines. Paho.org.
- Schimmelpfennig, Saundra. “Donating medicine after disasters” Goodintentionsarenotenough.com. 8 October 2009.
Broken Computers
1,000,000 T-shirts
- One Million T-Shirts
- Wadhams, Nick. “Bad Charity? (All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!)” Time.com. 12 May 2010.
Additional Reading
- Alanna Shaikh
- “Donation after disaster strikes” Nature Medicine 14, 596 Nature.com. 2008.
- Gray, Melissa. “Cash is best donation after disaster, aid groups say” CNN.com. 21 January 2010.
- Schimmelpfennig, Saundra. “What aid workers think of the 1 Million Shirts campaign” Goodintentionsarenotenough.com. 28 April 2010.
- Shaikh, Alanna. “Say No to Old Clothes” Bloodandmilk.org. 28 April 2010.