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Orphanages in Poland [82]
sold on the black market.
stuff being sold on the black market is less of a problem in Poland than in Belarus where i began my aid trips , but you do need to moniter where stuff is going and make sure it does get into the right hands....There are people who will try to make a profit from goods sent , or even score political points , but its easy enough to keep an eye on things.....One problem i had with a certain organisation involved a truckload of wheelchairs that were refurbished by inmates of a prison in the UK and given to us to take to Poland...We delivered them no problem , but later we found out they were being hired to people who needed them for a fee....We had a few stern words to say , and got the money returned to people , not so much dishonesty , but more of a misunderstanding....Belarus was a different story , even the government tried to cash in on the aid we took , but after a brief fight we won the right to take the aid direct to the kids , rather than to the state wharehouse where the aid would have vanished out of the back door to the local market , and the charity we were helping would have been charged storage for the aid....
