{"id":2510,"date":"2010-01-26T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2010-01-26T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:56:27","slug":"charities-to-avoid-when-donating-to-help-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/charities-to-avoid-when-donating-to-help-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities to avoid when donating to help in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezra Levant<\/a> warns about two particular charities that probably don’t deserve to get your donation for Haiti relief:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve spotted two Haiti-oriented NGOs that readers should stay away from, for reasons of corruption. Simply put, not enough money given to these NGOs actually winds up helping Haitians — too much is spent on lavish luxuries for NGO staff and managers.<\/p>\n

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I love Wyclef Jean\u2019s sound, but I wouldn\u2019t give a cent to his charity. Jean has been ubiquitous these past weeks raising money for Haiti, and no doubt his tears are real. But financial records from Yele Haiti show that Jean has made sure the first person to get paid from Yele Haiti events was himself — including a staggering $100,000 fee for him to perform at one of his own events (that benefit was cancelled because of his demands) and other gigs that poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into companies he controlled. Here\u2019s one where he took nearly $100,000 out of $150,000 raised. Even if Jean\u2019s fading star could still fetch that on the open market (he can\u2019t — here\u2019s a contract showing he performs for a fraction of that), it\u2019s still outrageous that people donating to Yele Haiti are told the money is going to help Haitians, when the poor Haitian benefiting the most is Wyclef himself.<\/p>\n

Best to take Jean for who he is — a talented musician who has helped spread the Haitian creole sound around the world — but put your trust (and money) into accredited charities that take only a modest sum for administration and overhead. The Red Cross is probably your best bet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I came to the same conclusion, and my donation went to the Canadian Red Cross.<\/p>\n

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Another corrupt NGO that donors should stay away from is Rights and Democracy (R&D), the ironically-named Canadian government-funded NGO that has recently been rocked by scandal for donating money to a Palestinian terrorist.<\/p>\n

R&D has a Haiti program, but like Yele Haiti, an inordinate amount of money received by R&D is spent on their own jet-setting staff. Here’s a 22-page internal audit memo from just two years ago, for example, that looks into a raft of corruption allegations — and unfortunately finds many of them to be true. The review, conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Foreign Affairs found \u201cweak internal controls\u201d over money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ezra Levant warns about two particular charities that probably don’t deserve to get your donation for Haiti relief: I\u2019ve spotted two Haiti-oriented NGOs that readers should stay away from, for reasons of corruption. Simply put, not enough money given to these NGOs actually winds up helping Haitians — too much is spent on lavish luxuries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,6,73],"tags":[467,466],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-cancon","category-randomness","tag-earthquake","tag-haiti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}