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The Humanitarian Side of Trust and Estate Law

Humanitarian help can come from many different places.

At the entrance of the refugee camp of Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, the names of all development aid organizations that made the survival of 450,000 Somalis possible are engraved on a wooden plaque: Save the Children, Oxfam, Handicap International: the list is long, and Ikea, the Swedish corporation origin of sales of furniture and household items, was added in 2011.

The Ikea Foundation gave the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) $62 million, to provide food and medical assistance to the refugees and victims of the famine in Dadaab.

UNHCR had never before received a private donation of such a high amount. "We welcome donations from the private sector," says Olivier Delarue, who is responsible for contacts with companies. "We need the private sector in every sense, both individual donations, and companies and wealthy individuals," Delarue said.

UNHCR also received instruction from the Swedish furniture house as to how to efficiently handle a warehouse and what is the best way to package goods for humanitarian aid. The result was positive for all concerned, says Olivier Delarue.

The aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) fund 90% of their missions with private donations. But that money comes mainly from individuals and not corporations or foundations, explained Laurent Sauveur, who is responsible for fundraising for MSF Switzerland.

In 2915, Mark Zuckerberg decided to donate 99% of his shares in Facebook to improve the world for future generations. The total, around 42,300 million euros, isn´t even close to what the rich from Spain donate in total: about 1,300 million.

Hamdi Ulukaya donated $2 million to Kurdish refugees in Syria in 2014. That might not seem like much, but that was actually half his fortune at the time. Why? To support the Kurds.

Naturally, you give what you can give, and for most of us, that´s time and attention. Activists and those that act from their heart and personal passion for the good of humanity and the earth, and going great work, attracting the attention of governments, individuals and companies. Often, they catch our attention just in time to stop terrible things happening.

Take, for example, the recent campaigns to stop the Dakota Access pipeline with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe winning an expanded halt to the pipeline construction.