OK, that's a bit weird.

[reynardo]

Many many years ago - in fact, around the time I fell pregnant with da_norvegicus, I belonged to a citizen's lobby group called Results. Their general aim (at that time, anyway), was to lobby governments to better direct the funds being given to other countries. In particular, they wanted to see funds go into clean water, sanitation, primary health care, primary education and other basic issues.

I thought I'd see how they were doing, so I looked them up on Wikipedia, and was surprised not to see them there. (When you think of some of the groups that have large pages on it, it is odd.)

So I thought I'd look backwards, and hit their web site to try and find their founder's name, the guy who started it 30 years ago.

And I can't find the guy at all.

Nowhere on their site. Not on their "history" page, or on the "who we are" or any of those pages. It's as if the organisation sprang, fully formed, like Athena from the head of Zeus.

(Of course, what's most likely is internal conflict, a split, and a re-writing of the information. But it's still a bit odd).

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but a group whose primary job is lobbying is highly susceptible to being manipulated or torn apart by financial contributors.

I've lost faith in all the major charitable organizations and corporations as well as lobbyists. These days I just regularly donate food to my local food bank. If they can enact evil ends using my can of peas, they're welcome to do so.

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

When I was at Prahran Mission they had no Wikipedia presence. This is a multi-million dollar charitable organisation that's been going for more than half a century. I made a basic page for the org. Not sure if it's still there. *checks* Yup! But no one's added anything to it. Still just a footnote.