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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Outrageous! Taking the money for themselves just like the Clinton foundation.
You’re just now learning that red cross is a business and not a charity… are you people stupid or something? You know what a charity is right? It’s not something you give money to to help others or feel good. It’s a tax write off for businesses and upper classers. Oh by the way these charities are run by upper classers so they can bank their money and grow it with other people’s donations. Here’s your wake up call morons… every charity takes cents off the dollar to the whole dollar. Not one of them is innocent in this. Wake the$#%&!@*up morons. If you want to donate, donate in your communities to the families around you that need it.
I never give to the red cross. Salvation Army only.
This story sound exactly like the Clinton Foundation rip off. Probably they built the same homes for the same amount of money.
this is why i don’t donate to charities. I only donate to no-kill shelters.
I am surprised they built anything at all.
Why I don’t give to red cross!
Who cares… I’m American all my life red cross wouldn’t help me and my child and now everyone is worried about ppl that don’t matter… and America know what Haiti has been doing… gross nasty…
Isn’t anyone ever going to be responsible for it? I was told in the 50’s that the RedCross was useless! When are people going to get real!
So that’s where Bill and Chillary got that half billion in their “foundation”.