Australian comedian Celeste Barber issued a call to action on her Facebook page to raise money for the NSW Rural Fire Service, raising more than $33 million in four days.
“The Trust is very specialised, it does not make direct payments to those affected by the disaster,” Eburn writes. “Rather it receives donations made to individual brigades that are then used for the benefit of that brigade.”
Eburn states emphatically that he is “all for community fundraising,” but that he hopes “people understand what they are donating to,” noting that fire brigades in Australia are largely government-funded. on Jan. 5, that the funds raised would now “also be distributed to Victoria and South Australia, the Red Cross and families of those killed in the fires, to be decided in consultation with NSW RFS.
", is that once the money is donated to a specific charity via Facebook the person who sets up the donation does not get to ”determine where they money goes after it has been paid.” “I fear that many people who donated to this campaign will not see the money spent in a way that they hoped it would be, and will not see it spent during the peak of the response and immediate recovery,” Eburn wrote.
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