`Disaster fatigue' leads to drop in giving

[sweeps]

The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away.

`Disaster fatigue' leads to drop in giving - Yahoo! News

[Exile]

I'm hardly one to complain about giving too much. But I do understand the feeling of making donation after donation and not seeing any results for the effort.

On top of that, the more causes to which you donate, the more lists that you wind up on for related and unrelated charities and other organizations with their hands out. In fact the increase is almost exponential. No wonder that even people with the biggest hearts burn out after a while.

[cashing_in]

Charity is the way to salvation.

There is so much in giving, once I bought a beer can to a broke on the footpath, he was very happy and his smile brought happiness to me.
What is the harm in partaking of a small amount which we could have wasted in unwanted frolicking.
I feel that at some point of life everyone should donate to charity.

[FrugalFish]

Charities were already seeing a significant drop in donations prior to these disasters. I think Americans' concerns over our own economy are the main reason we are being a little tighter with the purse strings.

[stressedmama]

People also get a little discourage to give after seeing reports that food that was originally given to Myanmar right after the disaster was taken by the govt and military and consumed and then the rotten leftovers were handed to the masses. Reports like this make me wonder if what I am giving is really getting to the people who need it.