Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Tracking the Red Cross’ $500 Million in Haiti Relief
A new investigation into the Red Cross in Haiti has revealed shocking news. After an earthquake nearly leveled the island in 2010, the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars in aid money. It pledged to use the money to build tens of thousands of new homes and entire communities from scratch.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readA new investigation into the Red Cross in Haiti has revealed shocking news. After an earthquake nearly leveled the island in 2010, the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars in aid money. It pledged to use the money to build tens of thousands of new homes and entire communities from scratch. Five years later, the charity has only built six individual homes, and is leaving Haiti. Where did all the money go? We hear from one of the reporters behind a new investigation.
