USA Africa Dialogue Series - In Search Of The Red Cross' $500 Million In Haiti Relief

"When a devastating earthquake leveled Haiti in 2010, millions of people donated to the American Red Cross. The charity raised almost half a billion dollars. It was one of its most successful fundraising efforts ever.

The American Red Cross vowed to help Haitians rebuild, but after five years the Red Cross' legacy in Haiti is not new roads, or schools, or hundreds of new homes. It's difficult to know where all the money went.

Haiti, just days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed much of the country on Jan. 12, 2010. The disaster uprooted many of its residents and killed more than 200,000 people.

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NPR and ProPublica went in search of the nearly $500 million and found a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success, according to a review of hundreds of pages of the charity's internal documents and emails, as well as interviews with a dozen current and former officials."

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