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Black Eye for the Red Cross

posted by CoolHand on Sunday June 07 2015, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the red-flag dept.

bradley13 writes:

After seeing problems with the Red Cross response local storm relief (example: 40% of available emergency vehicles used for press conferences), reporter Laura Sullivan decided to look into what happened in Haiti, where the American Red Cross collected a whopping $500 million in donations.

Her report is damning. The largest proportion of these were to go into housing. The Red Cross built...wait for it...six houses. In one area where the Red Cross promised to spend $24 million, and even printed a brochure exclaiming over all that they accomplished, the local residents are unaware of any Red Cross activity.

Meanwhile the Red Cross refuses to provide more than a very high level overview of their projects. No financial figures are provided that would allow one to figure out how much of that $500 million was actually spent on relief, and where the rest of it went.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:28AM (#193194)
    Meanwhile, this story was refuted before it made SN. But, yeah, go ahead and let the uninformed hate-fest contiune. It is, after all, a Saturday night.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:38AM (#193197)

    Refuted. That's what the Red Cross billionaires want you to think.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:14AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:14AM (#193207) Journal
    Really? I note that you don't post any links to documents refuting the points made in TFA (which does include its sources, including internal Red Cross emails and memos).
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:10PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:10PM (#193233) Journal

    Red Cross has played damage control [cnn.com], as any multibillion dollar empire would. The allegations stand.

    The Red Cross also declined repeatedly to disclose details on how exactly money was spent in Haiti and instead provided only broad categories of expenditures, despite a pledge by CEO Gail McGovern that her agency would "lead the effort in transparency," the news report said.

    A CNN review of the Red Cross' tax filings from July 2010 to June 2014 shows no detailed expenditures for its numerous relief programs, including in Haiti.

    Those documents, called Form 990, do show details on salaries, including McGovern's $597,961 total compensation in the most recent filing.

    The Red Cross said it annually reports online how donor dollars are spent according to sector and seven priorities: emergency relief, shelter, health, water and sanitation, livelihoods, disaster preparedness, and cholera prevention.

    Accusations that "details of Red Cross spending are so broad as to be useless" is a myth, the agency said.

    Reminds me of the time when the president of FIFA was reelected for a fifth term and then resigned within days.

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