How the Red Cross Raised Half A Billion Dollars For Haiti And Built 6 Homes
 

what a travesty, from reading the article there are some reasons, number 1 being that Haiti is a shithole of failure, which makes helping them out difficult but come on - $500 Million dollars of donations and almost none of it benefited the people the money was given to help.


https://www.propublica.org/article/h...built-6-homes#

most charities are so full of red tape most people would be better off donating to people in need themselves.

Looks like an interesting read. Thanks for the link.

And then charities wonder why people don't give money when most are clearly scams like this.

No profit...whatever, any business can be "non-profit" if you spend enough money on operating expenses and salaries and have nothing left over for the actual reason of the charity...they get busted doing that all the time.

It's a disgrace an criminal really and to use those tear jerker methods of marketing to guilt people into giving!

Shame on them!

How the fuck could that even happen? The entire population of Hatti is 10 million.. They could of just handed every Haitian a million bucks and still had 490 million left over...

They need to be doing a investigation on the Red Cross. If a sporting group like Fifa is fair game, then so should the Red Cross.

It's long past time that these charities get a free pass and aren't held accountable for the donations they receive.

^^^^^ what crockett said.

your math is broken...

Check the math bro.

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Each Haitian could have gotten $50 with nothing left over.

:2 cents:

Heh, I was just going to post that and saw you already did.

It'd be a neat trick, though, turning a $50 cheque per person into 1 million :)

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Yes see what happens when I wake up too early.. They would have still been better off with the cash directly than giving it to the Red Cross to squander away on administration costs.

I have worked for charities before. Usually 50% goes to the company who is out sourced to collect the funds. Then at least another 10-20% on admin fees.

Its a shame but really small amounts end up going to the cause.

The only time i agree with him and of course he's wrong, :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh That shows your bad judgment..

Touche :1orglaugh

No man they wouldn't. That's 50 bucks.. You can't get your rebuild on with 50 dollars!

Did you see the tents they live in? $50 would be better than the nothing they have now,

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh it's crockett science

Build them fuckign homes scambugs

My question - why isn't mainstream western media reporting on this travesty?

I read both our local and national newspapers on a daily basis and haven't seen anything about this mentioned.

Nothing the Red Cross does anymore surprises me. But it's sad that the media aren't highlighting this to everyone and making the RC accountantable in a public way.

I think the Red Cross has been doing this kind of stuff for a while. My understanding is that most of what they raise actually eventually gets spent on helping people, but in the fine print it says that when they raise money it is for their general fund and they will spend it as they see fit.

In this particular case the Red Cross came out today and said that they never promised to build houses for people, but they promised to provide housing. They claimed that because of corruption they were not able to buy land to build houses so they put people in temporary housing and helped build shelters etc while they look for a long term solution.

I personally think the Red Cross does a lot of good, but to me this one looks like a situation where people thought they were getting one thing when they gave money only find out later they were getting something else.

The Vice piece on HBO was crazy.

Having been to Haiti I can definitely say that $50 bucks in the hand of each average Haitian, certainly not including the politicos raping the country, would go very surprisingly far.

I see what you did there :1orglaugh

To be fair they were very nice houses

Just another reason not to donate to this organization.

and the fact the the President and CEO gets paid 1mil+ per yr

American Red Cross: The information presented above is outdated (as of October 2010), as Marsha J. Evans resigned her position as CEO of the American Red Cross in 2005. The current President and CEO of the American Red Cross (since 2008) is Gail J. McGovern, whose total yearly compensation for 2010 was about $1,037,000 (considerably higher than the $651,957 figure mentioned above) and for 2011 was about $561,000. Charity Navigator and Forbes both rate this organization's efficiency at 92%, much higher than the 39% figure claimed in the e-mail.
Read more at snopes.com: Executive Salaries in Charities

Red Cross, Unicef - I read a while back that if the stars are all aligned, 10 cents on every dollar collected actually goes where it should. I pick my spots on charity, but it always goes directly to the person, almost always a person in the street.

Gotta say, almost no beggars in Kuala Lumpur. I guess they must kill them all here, or they don't allow them in the more affluent neighborhoods.

There goes the funds.

Zeros are a motherfucker.

Zeros are a motherfucker.

It's as sad as the time someone posted a video about cops in Louisiana arresting a homeless guy and Crockett said look at those typical Texas dick cops being dicks.

let me single out "US AID" as the most corrupt piece of shit I have ever had the misfortune to see in work...it is basically a fund for bribing local politicians and giving concessions to the new american business partners, it is corruption in its purest form and every single project they do has one goal: lining the pockets of the US aid workers and their american buddies and a few local politicians...

in fact the word US and Aid do not belong in the same sentence...

You're stil mad because when I was in the US Army, we aided all over your country. Everytime I look at my 10th Mountain Division patch I think of aiding the fuck out of you.

I want to aid the shit out of you right now.

These six homes?

https://static.propublica.org/projec...600-995ca1.jpg

Red Cross is money printing and intelligence

the "aid" did more damage than the bombs...you can take comfort in the fact that we recovered from the terrorism quick but the "democracy" that came after it has got us all on our knees...we actually miss the US army for real :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

i want work there :2 cents: i think creflo dollar is there

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:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Please don't be so gullible.. Yes I screwed the pooch in this topic, but the other was a troll. I mean really..

That is why charities is mostly for people to feel better about themselves, or show off (public pressure for bigshots to donate etc, like it is a mandatory).
If you rally want to give do that directly, as simple as help out some poor family in your neighborhood.