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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That is fkddd up!!!!!!!!!!
Shameful
—Only six homes? Makes no sense.
Goodwill is a private for profit company too.
Most of these “so called” relief organizations are nothing but government b******t. They take your money for a GREAT cause and then use 90% of the money for governmental b******t! Donate ONLY to your local and trusted CHIRCH!
6 homes? what happened to the rest of the money?
AND I BET ONE OF THEM IS BEHIND THE KID IN THE FACEBOOK PICTURE.ONE A DUMP
Give $20 to a homeless person and they get $20. Give to many charities $20. They take their cut and 6 months later they give the homeless person what’s left.
That ain’t nothing,billions have been sent to Haiti,they still live in cardboard and have no roads.
I have talked to people after major disasters and, without hesitation, most said if they were going to donate it would be to any organization other than the Red Cross. One mentioned that after a tornado wiped out a whole town, the Salvation Army was giving away coffee, donuts, etc., on one corner and the Red Cross was SELLING same on the other corner. This is just an example of the corruption of the Red Cross!