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For HAPANI:

The charity is listed on an official government registry.

The charity hasn’t updated their Insta in a little over a year, nor their Facebook, but I don’t know enough about their operations to tell if that says something about whether they’re currently active vs. whether social media was deemed a poor use of limited resources.

The charity is associated with explicitly religious events and concerns. I couldn’t find a comparable charity that doesn’t have explicitly religious affiliations (the next best was Christian), but I’d like to remind people that religion is often a huge part of community cohesion for immigrants. But if you feel strongly about that, I will only say that this is one of the few charities I found, with admittedly limited time, that didn’t have an all-white board. So, while I don’t know where they stand on things like LGBTQIA+ issues (and the silence may be “telling” or it may be the result of navigating more complex pressures, there isn’t enough data to conclude anything), I personally still think donating here is better than doing nothing at all, absent any other option.