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Now that's an inflammatory title. Didn't local corruption mean that land-owners would gouge the Red Cross, causing them to spread aid in different ways?
by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Now that's an inflammatory title. Didn't local corruption mean that land-owners would gouge the Red Cross, causing them to spread aid in different ways?
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- qohen 11y agoDo read the ProPublica report linked in the very first paragraph and you may feel differently. (Or click on the link to the ProPublica [0] piece and/or the related NPR piece [1] below -- the two outfits jointly investigated the Red Cross' Haiti efforts and published articles based on their findings: [0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-... [1] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red... ) P.S. Per the linked post, the Red Cross responded to these reports -- here's the link if you care to read their side: http://www.redcross.org/news/article/The-Real-Story-of-the-6-Homes-Answering-Questions-about-Haiti http://www.redcross.org/news/article/The-Real-Story-of-the-6...