More than three billion people helped someone they didn’t know
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Preceding Bahrain on the CAF World Giving Index 2021 is New Zealand, Netherlands, Iceland, United Kingdom, Kosovo, Thailand, Australia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
People who are least likely to donate money include both the very rich (Japan) and the very poor (Mali). Launching the report, Neil Heslop, the Chief Executive of CAF, said, “The ravages of Covid-19 on charitable giving around the globe are laid bare in the pages of this report.”
“Many of the countries that have been stalwarts of our straight-forward gauge of global generosity over the past decade have fallen not just out of the top 10, but the top 20,” he added. And this is also where Bahrain shines.
While there was no shortage of willingness, the world ‘simply’ missed the opportunity.
World nations had to sacrifice the chance to give by locking down their people and economies.
Meanwhile, Bahrain, which remained cautious and importantly open, managed to lend helping hands to whoever came their way.
HH Shaikh Nasser asserted that the landmark achievement reflects “HM the King’s care for widows and orphans, and RHF’s keenness to deliver relief and humanitarian assistance in Bahrain and abroad.
These included donations and development projects such as hospitals and schools, food and medicines for stricken peoples and migrants all over the world.”
“The massive participation in the “Feena Khair” national campaign by the citizens, companies, banks, associations and residents had contributed to the success and entitled the Kingdom to rank among top countries in the Giving Index for this year.”
Indonesia on top As the pandemic kicked in, the United States of American, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and the Netherlands all seen significant decreases in their index scores.
Emerging on top of them was Indonesia, the most generous country in the world.
More than eight in ten Indonesians donating money this year and the country’s rate of volunteering is more than three times the global average.
Globally, more than three billion people, over half of the world’s adult population, helped someone they didn’t know in 2020.
The report also finds that more people donated money in 2020 than in the last five years, and the levels of volunteering in 2020 remained relatively unaffected at the global level. Indonesia has the highest Index score overall with an improved score of 69, up from 59 the last time a yearly Index in 2018.
More than eight in 10 Indonesians donated money in 2020, and the country has a much higher than average rate of volunteering.
The United States has fallen to place 19th, having ranked consistently in the top 5.
Japan scores the lowest of all the countries with an Index of 12, down from 22 in 2018.
The report points out that communities worldwide came together to offer mutual assistance during the pandemic.
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