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Report: Red Cross Built Just 6 Homes in Haiti After Raising $500M

HeadlineJun 05, 2015

A new report says the Red Cross has squandered millions of dollars in donations for Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. According to ProPublica and NPR, the Red Cross raised about $500 million but managed to build just six permanent homes. The group had falsely claimed to have provided homes to 130,000 people. Some of the money was used to boost employee salaries and may have been used to wipe off tens of millions of dollars in Red Cross debt.

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