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Some Haitians are asking that people not donate to the American Red Cross · 1

johnnyFive · 3056 days ago

independent.co.uk · #charity · #worldnews

The article references the joint NPR/ProPublica report earlier this year, which found some pretty serious mismanagement of disaster donations after the major earthquake in Haiti a couple years back. One stat was that some 25% of donations went to internal expenses, and the report also found that the Red Cross diverted disaster relief resources to unnecessary places so they could appear on camera.

Small wonder, then, that Haitians are looking elsewhere. The article mentions a few places, but I wanted to add these that folks on reddit mentioned. Note that I have not done any due diligence myself.

http://hopeforhaiti.com/

http://www.pih.org/

http://vtar.org/

https://haitichildren.com/

https://www.danitaschildren.org/

http://www.haitiarise.org/

I will say that the reddit comments claim that Hope for Haiti spends 96% of its funds on medical care (and only 4% for fundraising and internal costs), so there's that.

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oyster · 3056 days ago · link ·

I always feel a little bad that every time there's a disaster and this happens the Canadian Red Cross has to go on the defensive since everybody thinks they're the same thing. That must be frustrating for whoever runs their social media.