PROFILE
FROM Matt Smith
How Does Planet Aid Use Your Old Clothing? Let’s say you want to get rid of old clothes. You see one of those big yellow donation bins that says Planet Aid on it. Have you ever wondered what happens next? Well, they’re sold and the money is supposed to go to help poor people overseas in places like Africa. But two investigative reporters took a deeper look into Planet Aid’s funding and found a complicated story that involves possible money laundering and a reputed cult founded in Denmark. As for the Africans, they’re not seeing a lot of that money.
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