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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#

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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!

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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

After raising about $500m in donations meant to help rebuild Haiti following the 2011 catastrophic earthquake, the Red Cross managed to only build a meagre six homes in the country, according to a joint investigation by the news agencies Pro Republica and NPR.

The prominent US aid organisation says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people, "but the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti is six", the report released on Wednesday said.

The statement unveiled how rampant mismanagement, inflated salaries of employees, and a lack of transparency fuelled the squandering of millions of dollars.
It also suggested that the funds raised for Haiti could have been misallocated by the aid group to wipe off at least $100m worth of debt.

"The Red Cross has celebrated their work, saying it has helped more than 4.5 million Haitians to get back on their feet," the report said.

But 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".

Pro Republica and NPR say that after the Red Cross declined to show the results of its housing projects in Haiti, the news agencies sent a team to the Caribbean country to investigate one of the group's plans earlier this year.

Jean Jean Flaubert, the head of a community group that the Red Cross set up as a local sounding board, "pointed to the lack of progress in the neighbourhood and the healthy salaries paid to expatriate aid workers".

"What the Red Cross told us is that they are coming here to change Campeche. Totally change it," said Flaubert. "Now I do not understand the change that they are talking about. I think the Red Cross is working for themselves."
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

· Just 11% of French aid is genuine, says Action Aid. France spends nearly $2bn on technical assistance and $0.5bn on refugee costs in France. Debt relief, an accounting exercise, is 40%

· Of US aid, 86 cents in the dollar is phantom, largely because it is tied to the purchase of American goods and services. George Bush's Aids drugs plan excludes cheaper, generic drugs, so giving lucrative contracts to US pharmaceutical companies but treating fewer patients

· Of Japanese aid to Vietnam, 86% is spent on infrastructure projects because Vietnam is a key market for Japanese exports. These projects tend to be found in areas where Japanese firms operate

· In Cambodia, donors spent between $50m and $70m on 700 international consultants in 2002 - equivalent to the wage bill for 160,000 Cambodian civil servants

· UK DfID officials posted overseas get allowances for business class flights, which can be transferred towards holiday flights. DfID administrative costs, at 11.5%, are well above the 8% ceiling allowed by DfID in its funding agreements with NGOs
Re: Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built Six Homes by LordReed(m): 9:57am On Jun 06, 2015
abdnMe:
Sadly the Red Cross case is not a new one as over the years such corruption has turned up in other international agencies.


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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