Is the obligation discharged by paying zakat al-fitr through charitable organizations?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, these questions are related to zakat al-fitr. This questioner says: We give money to charitable organizations, and they take charge of paying it on our behalf, in rice. Is this action permissible?

Answer:
This is negligence, and your obligation is not discharged. These people do not care; they collect these things, and perhaps the festival passes and this remains piled up with them. They find this, or the money with which to buy it. This is leniency and negligence. This is a debt in your possession, not in the organization's possession. When it reaches its recipient on the day of the festival, if you want to discharge your obligation, you must be the one to take charge of it and deliver it to the poor person.
Or you appoint someone to buy it and deliver it to the poor person at the proper time. As for saying, "Oh organization, here is money to buy rice for me and distribute it," the organization is not one or two people. The organization has employees and many people, and your zakat al-fitr or so-and-so's zakat al-fitr is not their concern.