Fred Sajous, a Haitian earthquake survivor armed with a video camera and a cause, is a man on a mission: to figure out how the American Red Cross spent the $430 million it raised for the disaster.
The former Broward Community College student visited the tent city across the street from the American Red Cross' PĂ©tionville headquarters. Tent city leaders said they had not received anything from the Red Cross. With the organization's monthly report in hand, he went to a dozen more settlements.
``I couldn't find the $106 million,'' said Sajous, a 29-year-old mechanical engineer who left Fort Lauderdale for Port-au-Prince after being laid off last year. ``I didn't see a single sticker or anything.''
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6 Comments
zomgunicornssays...Fantastic idea for a video. And I hate to say it, but it needs someone like Michael Moore to help bring more publicity to this.
vaporlocksays...Ungrateful... and we didn't even bomb them (well, recently at least).
It's called Sarcasm...
BoneRemakesays...awwww man. I learned the other day by a passing remark that my parents gave Haiti 200 dollars.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to longde's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
BoneyDsays...Red Cross did the same thing in New Orleans.
siftbotsays...The UN Caused a Cholera Epidemic in Haiti has been added as a related post - related requested by longde on that post.
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