Picture from one of our outrea, faces blur
Charity is something nice and it comes with blessings. I must say that rendering service for the neeedies or less privilege is one thing that I really enjoy and it brings maximum peace of mind. And I like to tell people that the world need more people that are humane. I am a member of different chairty organization and I have my own charity organizations. Now social media has been helping us get support from people who wish to help, support or partner. Most of these people that support are people that I have not met in person before, and before someone support you with funds to carry out a project, it means the person has a level of trust in you and you must ensure not to disappoint them.
Normally , in our own case we ensure we take some pictures during the project and since we got some of the support from social media platforms, we do post some of the photos there so that the donors and supporters will see and know that we have used the funds judiciously and to ensure the privacy of the beneficiaries, we use the face blur app, to blur their faces. We don't do that to gain praises.
Also there are times I do my own personal charity solely from my pocket without any support , in such cases , no camera is seen around. It's only between me, the beneficiaries and God.
But as the prompt rightly stated, social media has made it easy to get people that are in need and also support them. At times we witnessed people doing crowed funding just to help others. And people can easily come online and seek for help and will get help . In the other hand, a lot of people abuse the use of social media to seek for help. At times they fake being sick just to raise funds for themselves, after raising the funds they disappear. And some people also disguise in the name of charity organizations or influencers , get defraud the public and then they don't use the funds judiciously.
In the aspect of using social media to scam people we have seen and heard that a lot , some even from influencers, just like the recent case we heard in this country some months ago.
My advice is , for organizations that may get support, grant and partnership from other bodies, using camera is not that bad, because to verify that the said project so funded was carried out, they sponsors might need pictures and videos. But in as much as pictures are being taken, ensure that the faces of the beneficiaries are covered for privacy sake.
And if as an influencer or a Charity organization, when you get support for a particular project, ensure you use the fund to deliver the project well. So as to get blessings from God and more support.
