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Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by LordReed(m): 7:09am On Jun 04, 2015 |
In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion- dollar project to transform the desperately poor area, which was hit hard by the earthquake that struck Haiti the year before. The main focus of the project — called LAMIKA, an acronym in Creole for “A Better Life in My Neighborhood” — was building hundreds of permanent homes. Today, not one home has been built in Campeche. Many residents live in shacks made of rusty sheet metal, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation. When it rains, their homes flood and residents bail out mud and water. The Red Cross received an outpouring of donations after the quake, nearly half a billion dollars. In a blistering 2011 memo, the then-director of the Haiti program, Judith St. Fort, wrote that the group was failing in Haiti and that senior managers had made “very disturbing” remarks disparaging Haitian employees. St. Fort, who is Haitian American, wrote that the comments included, “he is the only hard working one among them” and “the ones that we have hired are not strong so we probably should not pay close attention to Haitian CVs.” The Red Cross won’t disclose details of how it has spent the hundreds of millions of dollars donated for Haiti. But our reporting shows that less money reached those in need than the Red Cross has said. In other promotional materials, the Red Cross said it has helped “more than 4.5 million” individual Haitians “get back on their feet.” It has not provided details to back up the claim. And Jean-Max Bellerive, Haiti’s prime minister at the time of the earthquake, doubts the figure, pointing out the country’s entire population is only about 10 million. “No, no,” Bellerive said of the Red Cross’ claim, “it’s not possible.” https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes# 1 Like |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by Nobody: 7:25am On Jun 04, 2015 |
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Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by lomprico(m): 8:04am On Jun 04, 2015 |
Corruption everywhere! 1 Like |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by Yujin(m): 8:56am On Jun 04, 2015 |
When you have no compassion for victims of natural disasters you've lost your humanity. This is purely very wicked of the Redcross if this report is confirmed to be true. |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by abdnMe: 6:54am On Jun 06, 2015 |
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/red-cross-squandered-millions-haiti-relief-efforts-150604201349198.html |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by abdnMe: 6:56am On Jun 06, 2015 |
Sadly the Red Cross case is not a new one as over the years such corruption has turned up in other international agencies. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/may/27/development.debt |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by LordReed(m): 9:57am On Jun 06, 2015 |
abdnMe: I am beginning to understand that some of these agencies are just untaxed money spinners. |
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by Nobody: 2:18pm On Jun 08, 2015 |
This is why we should deliver our charity directly to a concrete source ourselves. Large organizations are rarely a safe bet. |
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