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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Criminal…I’ve heard a lot of BAD things from people that have dealt with them. not getting my money.
They gave the job of rebuilding Hati to Bill Clinton with tons of money not one thing got done .Some good Haitian should put an ice pick in his eye
All that money for their pockets and these people got screwed!!
Pathetic and
They must be very nice homes
You think this is criminal… Look at what they fid during the 9-11 attacks and all the money sent then to help those fallen
does not surprise me, when my husband was in Vietnam people donated packets of things like toothpaste,soap,combs,shaving stuff ect, and the Red Cross charged them for it.
I will never give them another cent. I pray others do the same. Their CEO is overpaid.
The Red Cross has a history of this. They wait for tragities, cash in. Then the head of the Red Cross gets rich. Not what they use to be. Now just a scam organization!
I quit giving to Red Cross over 40 years ago when my Grandfather told me that during WW2 Red Cross charged the Canadian soldiers 1 dollar for each pair of socks and that at that time he made it a point to donate to the Salvation Army, who did not ask or expect money from our armed forces. This is who I donate money to each and every year,
Sorry , that was WW1
Friend of mine in the service in Iraq, was told his father passed away by the Red Cross………..TWO WEEKS AFTER IT HAPPENED!!