Bombshell report: Red Cross raised half a billion dollars to build 6 homes in Haiti

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Washington Examiner:

The Red Cross raised half a billion dollars for Haiti, but built just six homes, according to a damning new report and investigation by ProPublica and NPR.

 

The charity says it has provided homes to over 130,000 people after the 2010 earthquake, but an investigation by ProPublica and NPR found it has only built six permanent homes in Haiti, the Western hemisphere's poorest country.

 

Despite a multimillion-dollar project to transform Campeche, a neighborhood in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, the Red Cross was unable to build a single home there. Residents still live in rusty sheet metal shacks, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation.

 

"What the Red Cross told us is that they are coming here to change Campeche. Totally change it," said Jean Jean Flaubert, head of a community group, to ProPublica. "Now I do not understand the change that they are talking about. I think the Red Cross is working for themselves."