Handbags   (The sad, the bad and the ugly. Non-productive stuff here.)

That is the reason I no longer give to overseas charities. As PeterP says this type of charity has been going on for decades, even my mother when a child collected at Sunday school. Then there is taxpayers via government grants. Some of these grants I can understand going to undeveloped countries during the Cold War era. These days and for a long time now I have dispensed my own form of charity as I see fit.