Reading about fraud is always upsetting, but reading about charity fraud is downright infuriating.
When the already-impoverished nation of Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake in 2010, people around the world opened their checkbooks to donate money to the reconstruction of the country. Among the recipients of these generous donations was the Red Cross, who pledged to help the people of Haiti get back on their feet with the millions of dollars given to them.
Yet five years after launching LAMIKA, a project named after a Creole acronym for “A Better Life In My Neighborhood” and meant to build hundreds of homes in Port-Au-Prince, only six homes have been built across the entire country, forcing citizens to continue dwelling in shacks without water, electricity or basic sanitation and regular flooding. In short, the Red Cross has delivered far less than it promised not just to it’s donors, but to the people it claimed it would help as well.
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unacceptable
this is why I do not donate to them or any cause that uses them, they have one of the lowest giving to the cause you want it to go to
Yes, these nonprofit groups like the red cross take the biggest chunk of our donations and pocket it!
I will never give to red cross again!
This is another reason we do not contribute to the Red Cross.
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Boy six homes for half billion dollars. Goes to show what these people like red Cross do with your money.
Best donation is t the church
This is normal for the Red Cross. This is outrageous..oh yes what happened to the billions of dollars the Bush’s and Clinton’s pledged to rebuild Haiti?
absolutely