Relief organizations are broken machines

Haiti asks you to send your donations somewhere else (than the Red Cross)

Even as the country is beginning its rebuilding and emergency operations after being ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, Haitians are requesting that those looking to help please not donate to the Red Cross.

↩︎ posted Oct. 13, 2016

Raising funds while responding to disasters

As Hurricane Matthew becomes the latest disaster the Red Cross responds to (and fundraise from), local reports say that its staffing on the East Coast is inadequate.

During Haiti’s devastating 2011 earthquake, the organization—which takes in much of its annual income during donation drives for major disasters—raised half a billion dollars and built a total of six homes.

↩︎ posted Oct. 8, 2016

I am growing increasingly frustrated with a Red Cross that rejects oversight and seems unwilling to change.

Rep. Bennie Thompson asks FEMA to look into the Red Cross’s failed response to Louisiana’s floods.

↩︎ ProPublica, posted Oct. 7, 2016

Waiting to Rebuild

Two years after the shelling of the Gaza Strip, just 31 percent of the money pledged for relief has reached recipients. Many have waited for years for their homes to be rebuilt, and spent thousands of their own money in the meantime.

↩︎ posted Oct. 7, 2016

I am being honest with you when I say that at this rate, we will never break the transmission chain and the virus will overwhelm us.

A narrative tick-tock shows how the global health relief community failed to save thousands of lives from Ebola in West Africa.

↩︎ Washington Post, posted Oct. 8, 2016