The promise of the Initiative was to provide housing for the Haitian people that was both earthquake and extreme weather resistant.
However, after six years most of those Haitian victims are still living in tents and cardboard shacks because 90% of the money donated for Haitian relief never went to relief.
Now a category four Hurricane is barreling down on Haiti. Hurricane force winds should arrive be this evening.
In the US a Cat 4 storm usually leads to grievous property damage but due to warnings adequate shelters and housing built to code, the death toll remains relatively low.
However, due to Clinton’s mismanagement (and that’s being kind), Haitians are still living in substandard housing and there are not enough adequate shelters to hold them all. The death toll will in all probability be in the thousands.
It’s a scandal far more serious than whether a businessman loses money on a business deal but I doubt you will see much coverage the New York Times.
4 comments:
i'm sure that the clinton's are licking their chops at the prospect of fleecing the haitians again.
Very sad.
Hope you're ok, cs9.
No worries, I'm out of the warning area. Keeping tabs on some friends in Miami.
In Haiti, a Factory Where Big Money, State Department and the Clintons Meet
But the post-quake projects nurtured along with $10 billion in international relief and hefty support from the U.S. government and the Clinton Foundation have, at best, had mixed results, experts told ABC News. Several of those initiatives have benefited Clinton friends and foundation donors as much as Haitians, Johnston said.
“Contributors to the Clinton Foundation benefited from the relief effort in Haiti writ large,” Johnston said. “The evidence indicates that those who were contributing to the Clinton Foundation and active in Haiti were certainly a part of that reconstruction process.”
With Hundreds Living in Tents, a Luxury Hotel
In elite circles in Haiti, the Clintons are held in high regard. Henry Robert Louis, who helped the government rebuilding effort, told ABC News that Bill Clinton’s “time and expertise were greatly valued and helped us achieve more than we possibly could have without him.”
And the Clinton Foundation touts its success in deploying over $30 million in relief support. “The Clinton Foundation disbursed every dollar of that aid and did not take one cent in overhead,” said Bruce Lindsey, the foundation’s chairman, in a nine-page statement to ABC News. “As a philanthropic organization, the Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti has only one goal: to help the people of Haiti.”
But in Port-au-Prince, where neighborhoods still teem with flimsy lean-tos and tarp-covered shacks, residents told ABC News they harbor frustrations with the way the Clintons marshaled international aid.
“I didn’t get any of the money,” said Inèse Luma, who lives crammed with five relatives in a makeshift home of tarp, wood and plastic. “I don’t think I’m ever going to have a permanent house.”
Efforts to rebuild the thousands of homes destroyed by the 7.0 quake have inched forward. In six years, USAID says, it has constructed fewer than 1,500 homes, and many of those have had to be rebuilt because of poor workmanship.
At the same time, the Clinton Foundation says it “facilitated” the construction of a luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, a Marriott owned by Denis O’Brien, who has given $10 million to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. O’Brien, an Irish billionaire who runs the Jamaica-based telecom giant Digicel, said he financed the hotel himself.
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