How do you pick who deserve more your donations?

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Hello again pals Last days i'm thinking really a lot for charity and what would i do, if i was able to stay away some money from our expenses and bills and to give them for charity. Here, in Bulgaria, we have a lot of shelters for children, who doesn't have parents. They all need different stuff, like food and clothes. So now i'm thinking that when i start making more money, i would love to help them, because for me they are forgot from everyone. After the BBC movie for one of our shelters here, whole the world learned that here in our shelters nothing goes as it has to be - the care is not real care, teachers are cruel with the kids and act with them like prisons, arrogant and not nice. Now i'm thinking some day ... if i am able, how can i make the right decision which shelter will really use my donations (doesn't matter if we talk about money or clothes or products) for the kids. Here we have lots of corruption and i believe that if the corruption happens in the high stages of the government, the government control all the shelters, so the people who work in the shelters will be corrupted too and who knows if the kids will receive something or not ... I am thinking about meets with the directors some day, when i'm able to help. All of the shelters got bank accounts for donations, but i would never donate money, because i don't trust the people who will withdraw and use the money. I would like to meet in real the people who will receive what i donate and i think that will give me better view if the person is really cared for the children or not. I'm not sure that in these shelters they care so much about the education about the kids. I've seen some really motivated young orphans, who wants to study in university, because they has never received the real love and care they needed in whole their life, so for me school books and books at all are good decision too. But still the books will be useless if the teachers doesn't attract the kids with them. I'm posting that discussion, because i'm very interested in the social life of that kind of groups in our society. I want to study psychology or some other line, who will help specially that kind of "ill" groups of our society, because i believe that if parents or at least school educate kids to be good people with good knowledge, all the society will move bit faster and doing the right things in life. So now the question - how do you pick who deserve your donations more? Is it the one you trust that he/she will use the donations right or it's just a part of your monthly life and you want to calm down your conscience that you made something good for someone in need? Experience from people, who donate often, will be greatly appreciated, because the ones donated money from my side always has been given to beggars on the streets, but never given to organization who protect group of the society or shelters. Thanks in advance.