Red Cross raised $500M for Haiti but built ONLY 6 houses

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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.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

 

Corruption is REAL.

[Serendipity 7,821]

I feel so bad for the people

greed never does anyone good

[Tropico 4,145]

The definition of immoral  

[Laceface 2,964]

It's terrible! I saw something on TV yesterday about how a percentage of the money raised is held by the corporate bosses of these big charities and their wages are huge. They now recommend donating to smaller charities 

[Staryu 6,162]

 Unbelievable...

[Didymus 34,380]

Well.. that's just yeah.. really terrible and it makes me really sad tbh.

[faux 2,190]

ughhh why must people be assholes

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

The graft and corruption is REAL.

 

[PrinceGaga 7,644]

FVCK!! This is so sh**!!! So pissed off

[Nicole 1,809]

So many large charities/nonprofit organisations are no good anymore. I really recommend people to do a lot of research before donating to a cause - choose wisely otherwise your money only goes into the boss' pockets.

[elixt 34]

Karma will hit this greedy monsters, It's not like you take this money to your grave You a**holes!! You don't know when your time is up stop being so f*cking selfish this makes me so mad 

[Luiz 4,253]

"Despite the most challenging conditions, including changes in government, lack of land for housing, and civil unrest, our hardworking staff - 90 percent of whom are Haitians - continue to meet the long-term needs of the Haitian people," the non-government organisation said in a statement on its website.

"While the pace of progress is never as fast as we would like, Haiti is better off today than it was five years ago."

The 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, killed more than 220,000 people and was a wake-up call to the government and international aid agencies about the dire need to protect Haitians from disasters and build resilience among communities.

The Red Cross said donations had helped build eight hospitals and clinics, stem a cholera outbreak, provide clean water and sanitation, repair roads and schools, and move more than 100,000 people out of make-shift tents into housing.

But the investigation's discovery that only six permanent houses had been built in Haiti hit headlines and sparked outrage on social media about the lack of transparency and effectiveness of aid funds.

 

The report, based on confidential emails from top officials and accounts, said the American Red Cross claimed it provided homes for more than 130,000 displaced people, but the actual number of permanent residences it built was six.

Addressing the report, the Red Cross said it had used other methods to improve housing after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

"When land was not available for new homes, the Red Cross provided a range of housing solutions including rental subsidies, repairs and retrofitting of existing structures, fulfilling our promise to ensure tens of thousands of Haitians are back in homes," it said.

The American Red Cross declined to respond to any further questions from the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In a fact sheet released with the statement, the Red Cross said often the fastest and most efficient way to provide housing was through rental subsidies.

One of its rental subsidy programmes was operated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Geneva body of which the American Red Cross is a member and this added to overhead costs.

While the American Red Cross reports 91 cents on every dollar goes to humanitarian programmes and services, the IFRC told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that when it runs a programme it levies an extra 6.5 percent plus in-country expenses to cover offices, telecoms and other operating costs.

The IFRC could not immediately provide details on how much it added to run the $6 million Haiti rental subsidy programme but in a five-year report on the Red Cross's Haiti relief efforts it said overall 17 percent was spent on "program support and coordination".

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[DuffMan69 0]

I hope karma gets to them :o