I would send money to help...IF someone I knew was going there and would make sure it got to whomever I wanted it to go to.
Once, driving around in Mexico my brother and his wife ran onto a girl's orphanage that was in dire need of everything. So for some years they went back and took a lot of stuff there, and we all dug deep for them. He was/is hard nosed enough to make sure that every dress and every pair of shoes and every dollar went to that orphanage and none other. He even piped in water so they wouldn't have to buy it a few gallons at a time.
Now where else could this happen? Every thing we sent went right there.
But other charities? I don't really trust them.