Donations to Haiti

[Viva Las Espuelas]

One year later, the majority of the nearly two billion dollars donated is still sitting in the bank accounts of the nonprofit relief organizations.

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132807...icism?ft=1&f=3

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgi..._b_850914.html

Maybe these should go have caw-fee..........and, you know.............talk.

[Winehole23]

I agree, but it will be Deja Vu all over again. The civilized world will throw BILLIONS more at Haiti (The US alone has already dumped FIVE BILLION down that rat hole) and nothing will change.

Go back in 2 years and it will look basically the same as it does now but all the money will have been sucked out of the system. Some of the richest people in the world are ex Haitian politicians.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/0...a-million.html

[BlackSwordsMan]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/0...a-million.html

Gotta pay for the murder of Iraqi kids somehow. America took the Haitians money and not a thing they can do about it.

[boutons_deux]

Haiti: Where the Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go

The UN estimated international donors gave Haiti over $1.6 billion in relief aid since the earthquake (about $155 per Haitian) and over $2 billion in recovery aid (about $173 per Haitian) over the last two years.

Yet Haiti looks like the earthquake happened two months ago, not two years. Over half a million people remain homeless in hundreds of informal camps, most of the tons of debris from destroyed buildings still lays where it fell, and cholera, a preventable disease, was introduced into the country and is now an epidemic killing thousands and sickening hundreds of thousands more.

It turns out that almost none of the money that the general public thought was going to Haiti actually went directly to Haiti. The international community chose to bypass the Haitian people, Haitian non-governmental organizations and the government of Haiti. Funds were instead diverted to other governments, international NGOs, and private companies.

Despite this near total lack of control of the money by Haitians, if history is an indication, it is quite likely that the failures will ultimately be blamed on the Haitians themselves in a “blame the victim” reaction.

Haitians ask the same question as many around the world “Where did the money go?”

Here are seven places where the earthquake money did and did not go.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/153647