The problem with corporate charities is they don’t allocate the majority of the funds to their stated cause. More often than not that money is funneled into a myriad of other organizations controlled by the corporation/groups of corporations. Large non profits aren’t very transparent and there are a lot of tricks they can use to divert funds away from their stated cause.

There’s also the whole “paternalism” thing for lack of a better word. They use what’s left of the money for flashy, headline grabbing things that may not be beneficial or even wanted by the people they’re supposed to be helping. They tell those that need help how they need to be helped instead of asking them what they need. Clothes donations to various African countries come to mind. It looks good in articles when we ship all of our worn out novelty T-shirts to a bunch of poor people. But in the areas they go, it puts local manufacturers out of business, and oftentimes a lot of the clothes get thrown out. So sure, those people have “clothes” but their local economy is worse off. Had you asked the people of these counties how they would liked to be helped, they’d probably ask for investment in the local textile industry over getting a boatload of our leftovers.

I mean, the concept of corporate charities is sort of fucked to begin with. It’s a PR front for terrible companies. Nestle does charity work in Africa. A continent that they literally killed babies in back in the 70s. In counties that they are currently stealing their water from, leaving many of the citizens in said country without clean or safe drinking water. But they threw $50 at a farmer somewhere on the continent so help is help right? It’s just frustrating that they can get away with this shit