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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:29PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:29PM (#193243) Journal

    Actually we don't strictly need houses (at least in most of the world); it's just damn more convenient to live in a house.

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  • (Score: 1) by penguinoid on Monday June 08 2015, @01:08AM

    by penguinoid (5331) on Monday June 08 2015, @01:08AM (#193452)

    Is it really that convenient to live in a house (consider the cost/inconvenience of heating, repairing, maintaining individual kitchens, bathrooms, yard, etc)? Personally, I really enjoyed living in a dorm, with a cafeteria.

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    • (Score: 2) by Daiv on Monday June 08 2015, @02:19PM

      by Daiv (3940) on Monday June 08 2015, @02:19PM (#193649)

      The conveniences of living in a dorm did not outweigh the stress of loud, rude, sociopathic neighbors who ruined any chance of good resting periods. Not sleeping well for periods of time can lead to all kinds of problems. By the time some sort of dorm that addressed all of that would be planned and built, the cost of which likely wouldn't be much better than a small house.

      • (Score: 1) by penguinoid on Monday June 08 2015, @06:38PM

        by penguinoid (5331) on Monday June 08 2015, @06:38PM (#193755)

        Sound-proofing isn't really that expensive.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @07:24PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @07:24PM (#193773)

          > Sound-proofing isn't really that expensive.

          Said the person who has never actually tried to install effective sound-proofing.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:59PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:59PM (#194632) Journal

      And that dorm was under open sky? I would bet it was in a house.

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