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New Story (YC S15) Plans to Rebuild Haiti Where Red Cross Failed (fastcoexist.com)
10 points by thetakach 4018 days ago
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Now that's an inflammatory title. Didn't local corruption mean that land-owners would gouge the Red Cross, causing them to spread aid in different ways?
Do read the ProPublica report linked in the very first paragraph and you may feel differently.

(Or click on the link to the ProPublica [0] piece and/or the related NPR piece [1] below -- the two outfits jointly investigated the Red Cross' Haiti efforts and published articles based on their findings:

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red... )

P.S. Per the linked post, the Red Cross responded to these reports -- here's the link if you care to read their side:

http://www.redcross.org/news/article/The-Real-Story-of-the-6...

Hey Folks,

One of the New Story founders here - happy to answer any questions.

Alexandria