Kudzai Kutukwa on Nostr: Absolutely! That's before we even factor in scambots like Imad from Gaza that also ...

Absolutely! That's before we even factor in scambots like Imad from Gaza that also muddy the waters for genuine cases of people in need. I don't see much of that bot anymore and glad about that too. At it's peak that bot resulted in a lot of people going as far as muting the word Gaza, not because they were trying to bury their head in the sand, but simply because they had had enough of the endless spam and guilt tripping coming from that bot.

mannaah (nprofile…pr9m) can be understood as one more filter to use to sift through when trying to identify the difference between genuine needs and scams, for those who may want to help people in need. It's not a replacement for your own personal judgement or verification but at a bare minimum it's assurance that someone else (i.e. me and a few other people) looked at a need and it passed their sniff test.

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Imagine a person with enough money to help a stranger, and a stranger who desperately needs it, yet the two are unable to transact because they happen to live on opposite sides of a political boundary. Billions of dollars can theoretically exist for humanitarian purposes, yet the money still has to cross correspondent banks, compliance departments, jurisdictions and payment systems before it becomes useful to the person who needs it.

Consider Afghanistan after 2021. The country's banking system became effectively isolated from the international financial system. The World Bank documented circumstances in which humanitarian organisations were forced to use informal channels and even physical shipments of US dollars because formal financial infrastructure could not reliably deliver money to people on the ground. The tragedy here is not merely that banking becomes inconvenient, but that compassion becomes dependent upon the machinery of politics.

Receiving or giving help shouldn't be conditional to the political system you live under.