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Red Cross Spent Half a Billion Dollars to Build Six Homes in Haiti
Despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the Red Cross has only built six houses in Haiti. The American Red Cross raised more than half a billion dollars to bring relief to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake there, but it grossly overstated what the money bought. Although the organization claimed to have provided housing to more than 130,000 people, it actually only built six permanent homes, according to a report by ProPublica and NPR.
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"That year, the Red Cross kicked off a big project to revitalize the neighborhood of Campeche in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. However, it has yet to build any homes in the neighborhood, and its residents still live in shacks without access to clean water, electricity, and basic sanitation."
This isn't what I expected from an organization that my parents and myself respected