海地地震募捐時，募到五億美元款項後，只蓋了六棟房子。

NaturalNew你無法編出這些故事。來自Propublica.org：

海地發生地震後，各界捐款湧入，紅十字會收到近五億美元。

該組織公開慶祝這個工作成果。但事實上，紅十字會在海地一再沒有動工。來自高層主管機密備忘錄與電子郵件，以及十多個受挫失望的幕後人員拿出帳戶顯示，紅十字會違背承諾，浪費捐款，讓人以為在重建。

紅十字會表示，它要為13萬多人提供房屋。但實際上在海地所蓋的永久屋房只有6棟。

事實上，紅十字會利用海地地震的名義募捐，只是要消除它龐大的債務。請看：

紅十字會內部，把海地災難視為『一次募款的大好機會』，前任主官回憶說，他幫助動員這項募款。蜜雪兒歐巴馬與美國國家橄欖球聯盟，還有一長串名人呼籲捐款給紅十字會。

在募得足夠的資金後解除緊急需求，仍持續募款，相形之下，無國界醫生在募得足夠資金後停止募款。這個款項紓解了紅十字會超過1億美元的帳面赤字。

美國紅十字會：捐款被吸到一個巨大的官僚黑洞裡消

紅十字會到底做了些什麼？就像所有大官僚一樣，它的高級主管彼此慶賀成功。經由ProPublica：

最早的計畫是要幫難民蓋房子，內部的企劃室寫700。每棟房子有地板，廁所，洗澡間，甚至雨水收集系統。這些房子應該在2013年1月完工。都沒有動工。Carline Noailles是該項目位在華盛頓的專案經理，他表示，一直延後是因為紅十字會“沒有技術”。

所以，紅十字會從容易受騙的捐贈者那裡募集到5億美元，但不知道怎麼蓋房子，他們說的幫難民蓋房子。提名紅十字會成為成熟的政府機構是個浪費，大規模浪費大量人才，浪費大量納稅人的錢。

數百萬人教導赤貧的孩子如何在沒有水或肥皂的情況下洗手。

雖然紅十字會的地震受災戶房屋重建計劃被笑掉大牙，他們決定動用這5億美元的捐款來－我沒有瞎編故事 －教導孩子怎麼洗手的技巧，在沒有水與肥皂的情況下。我為什麼不那樣想呢？

紅十字會沒有對生活條件進行具體改善，倒是發動了洗手教育活動。內部評估說，當人們沒有水與肥皂時，這些是“無效”的。（紅十字會拒絕評論這件事。）

你可能想說紅十字會的任何人會第一個知道，要洗手首先要有自來水，但這太看得起他們了。這不是真正幫助他人，你知道......這是有關籌募資金來支付內部員工的薪水與紅利！

結論：如果你捐一塊美金給美國紅十字會，你是笨蛋。這個組織是個欺詐行為。要捐款時找更誠信的非營利組織，要捐錢給這些肥貓之前先做好功課，這些肥貓要拿來付巨額的薪水與紅利，然後對於幫助需要幫助的人幾乎完全無所作為。

American Red Cross exposed as massive, incompetent fraud: built just six homes after collecting half a billion dollars in Haiti earthquake donations

NaturalNews) You can't make this stuff up. From Propublica.org:

The Red Cross received an outpouring of donations after the quake, nearly half a billion dollars.

The group has publicly celebrated its work. But in fact, the Red Cross has repeatedly failed on the ground in Haiti. Confidential memos, emails from worried top officers, and accounts of a dozen frustrated and disappointed insiders show the charity has broken promises, squandered donations, and made dubious claims of success.

The Red Cross says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people. But the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti: six.

In effect, the Red Cross exploited the Haiti earthquake as a way to get gullible donors to wipe out its massive operational debt. Check this out:

Inside the Red Cross, the Haiti disaster was seen as "a spectacular fundraising opportunity," recalled one former official who helped organize the effort. Michelle Obama, the NFL and a long list of celebrities appealed for donations to the group.

The Red Cross kept soliciting money well after it had enough for the emergency relief that is the group's stock in trade. Doctors Without Borders, in contrast, stopped fundraising off the earthquake after it decided it had enough money. The donations to the Red Cross helped the group erase its more-than $100 million deficit.

The American Red Cross: Where donation money disappears into a massive bureaucratic black hole

So what did the Red Cross actually do? Like all big bureaucracies, its top officials all stood around shoving thumbs up each other's asses and calling it "success." Via ProPublica:

The Red Cross' initial plan said the focus would be building homes -- an internal proposal put the number at 700. Each would have finished floors, toilets, showers, even rainwater collection systems. The houses were supposed to be finished in January 2013. None of that ever happened. Carline Noailles, who was the project's manager in Washington, said it was endlessly delayed because the Red Cross "didn't have the know-how."

So the Red Cross collects half a billion dollars from gullible donors, but doesn't know how to build homes for the victims it claimed to be helping? This reality reeks of so much waste that I'm now nominating the Red Cross to be a full-fledged government agency, where it's amazing waste-amplified talents can be put to use on a larger scale, wasting far more taxpayer money than ever thought possible.

Millions spent teaching impoverished children with no water or soap how to wash their hands

While all the Red Cross's home building plans were being laughed off the table, the organization decided to use its half a billion dollars in funding to -- and I'm not even making this up -- teach hand washing skills to children who have no water and no soap. F-Yeah! Why didn't I think of that?

Instead of making concrete improvements to living conditions, the Red Cross has launched hand-washing education campaigns. The internal evaluation noted that these were "not effective when people had no access to water and no soap." (The Red Cross declined to comment on the project.)

You might think that somebody at the Red Cross would first realize that washing hands requires running water, but that would be giving them way too much credit. It's not about actually helping people, you see... it's all about raising money to raise Red Cross salaries and bonuses!

Bottom line: If you give a single dollar to the American Red Cross, you're a fool. The organization is a fraud. Pick a more honest non-profit next time, and do your homework before giving money to these donation fat cats who pay themselves huge salaries and bonuses while doing next to nothing to actually help real people in the real world.

SOURCE:

Propublica.org

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