Elusivecat,

You have a valid point and it is unfortunate.

Let me try to curb some of your doubts.

Help Nepal has been functioning on donations.

All those working for it are volunteers. We do not make livings out of it.

We do not take out over head cost from the donations (except groundspring.org charges 3% from the donated amount).

We have seperate fund raisers or events for overhead if/when needed.

The cost of overhead for running Nepal Office were borne by our Russian team.

Help Nepal is proud of the fact that it has collected over 75000$ (mostly from Nepalese)

for the overhead revolving fund so that we can employ few more qualified personnel and

all the donations go to the specified projects.

Moreover, we do not simply give away to people. We involve the local people so that they have sense of ownership.

 

Look at lighted up Humla - a small amount was from donations of people like you.

Look at the running clinic in Mugu - it totally depends on donations of people like you.

There are many more examples like repairing and building schools through donations from Nepalese.

I do invite you to join hands and share ideas and implement to mitigate such doubts.

We need more people getting involved.

Again,

If you don't who will ?