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Some percent to Africa, some percent to US?

Orphans of African victims?

How to distribute with no losses through middlemen?

I'll start it with 10BTC.

Addresses not yet set up.  But will figure that stuff out.

I don't think they really need this. The US is more then capable of providing support to these children, and they will likely receive some kind of support from the community.

The real issue is preventing the illness from continuing to spread. The key factor in preventing this is the healthcare system having the necessary tools in keeping healthcare providers safe and being able to treat people with ebola to the best of "medicines" ability.

(Now that I think of it a little bit more I would say these families/children would probably need help however the more pressing issue is still above)

Yeah, I think the situation is beyond what a btc crowdfunding exercise could solve. In fact, there is the risk that the community might be accused of using the tragedy for PR
BTC more suitable for on-going charity work rather than on-offs like ebola inmho

Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd raise money for. It's kind of a binary outcome: you contract the disease and die, or you contract the disease and recover and life resumes as normal. This is a different type disaster than, say, a hurricane, where survivors can't resume their lives as normal because they've lost all their possessions and home.

But I think your heart is in the right place. If anything, donate to an anti-poverty charity that works in Africa, after all, it's poverty that prevents the communities being ravaged by Ebola to build the health and sanitation services that protect people from coming into contact with Ebola in the first place. I think that's where any donations can do the most good.

“People in the Western World need to know what’s happening here in West Africa. THEY ARE LYING!!! 'Ebola' as a virus does NOT Exist and is NOT 'Spread'. The Red Cross has brought a disease to 4 specific countries for 4 specific reasons and it is only contracted by those who receive treatments and injections from the Red Cross. That is why Liberians and Nigerians have begun kicking the Red Cross out of their countries and reporting in the news the truth."

See more at: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/ebo-lie-man-living-in-ghana-confirms-ebola-is-a-hoax/#sthash.7Jof6vGU.dpuf .

:)

Wow, incredibly naive to fall for a story like that one. 

Hey! We simply report the news.  :)

something like this is a behavior that should always be in the habit, help others and be willing to sacrifice for others, to donate a portion bitcoin we have, then hopefully it can help our brothers and sisters who are struggling against the Ebola outbreak, just how we arrange delivery bitcoin address mutually agreed not to good intentions marred by the actions of irresponsible ... hopefully ...  8)

Another scam?

I would say more like crazy. Several thousand people have died from Ebola and this has been confirmed by multiple sources.

I do not however think this is a good idea, at least not yet. We first need to put all resources towards containing the spread of the disease and once containment is taken care of, then we can worry about the families of the deceased. Also a bitcoin fund would not be any more effective then a fiat based fund

LOL.  Nope, not if I was involved.  Total public postings of all transfers.  It's the easiest thing in the world to show in the blockchain the complete path of a charity oiperation.

One thing did occur to me as an interesting side effect of this type of thing, though.  It would be necessary to BAN people living in Bitcoin-unfriendly areas.  Thus the front page of a website such as this would say ...

"NO Distributions will be made to Bangladesh or New York....."

Let them see the consequences of their policy.

The funds would be converted to fiat before distributing to the ultimate recipients anyway, so this wouldn't be an issue.

Gene which promote high growth rate for the population was desirable at one point in human evolution stage.

This is no longer the case. Hence natural selection will slowly remove the undesirable population into extinction.

Although I have on specific reason to say that you are not trustworthy, to say that you will show where specifically the money is spent (after you receive it) is generally will not guarantee that money will actually be spent on the intended cause as you will need to trust the person disbursing the funds (you) to actually do so. The only thing the blockchain can do is prove (with a certain degree of certainty) that you did or did not spend the funds on the intended cause

EDIT: spelling