The Wasteful and Subversive Nonprofit Sector

I just wanted to take a minute — in this age of demonizing NGOs as wasteful subversives helping migrants invade us — to reflect on the things nonprofits actually do, and at what costs:    

On 31 January at approximately 18:25 EST, a Learjet 55 with six people onboard, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, crashed in Philadelphia, US.  Jet Rescue has identified the six victims that were on the plane as Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Doctor Raul Meza Arredondo, Rodrigo Lopez Padilla, patient Valentina Guzman Murillo, and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna. All six people were Mexican citizens.

Valentina had been receiving care in the US for a life-threatening condition, and was returning to Tijuana, Mexico when the crash occurred.  Gold told US news outlet NBC the child’s treatment was sponsored by a third-partner charity. Mel Bower, a spokesman for Shriner’s Children’s Hospital was only able to comment: “The patient had received care from Shriners Children’s Philadelphia and was being transported back to her home country in Mexico when the crash happened.”

Anecdotal, yes.  But there must be millions of less sensational examples.

darryll k. jones