I have been warned that one of the charity organizations, "Operation Blessing", being promoted by CNN and even FEMA as a place to send donations, is a "charity" owned by infamous televangelist Pat Robertson (the chairman is of Operation blessing is M.G. Robertson, short for Marion Gordon Robertson, which is Pat Robertson's real name, and the board is dominated by his family members), and is used for his personal commercial gain. Google has quite a collection of articles on how he used Operation Blessing to fund his commercial interests in a diamond mine in Zaire.
Quoting Robert Hinkle, the chief pilot for Operation Blessing:
We got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted on the tails of the airplanes, but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa.
Stick to sending donations to the Red Cross, or another group that you know well.
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