I have written about the Red Cross' failures before. One of the main kickers that spurred me to put together the KTD Drive Project, what really clinched it for me was the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The simple fact of the matter is, the Red Cross, FEMA, and many other organizations, all too often fail to do the job they are supposed to do.
And now Haiti feels not just the Red Cross' failure but Hillary Clinton's Failure as well.
"In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion-dollar project to transform the desperately poor area, which was hit hard by the earthquake that struck Haiti the year before. The main focus of the project — called LAMIKA, an acronym in Creole for “A Better Life in My Neighborhood” — was building hundreds of permanent homes.
Today, not one home has been built in Campeche. Many residents live in shacks made of rusty sheet metal, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation. When it rains, their homes flood and residents bail out mud and water."
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Showing posts with label Red Cross. Show all posts
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
The Red Cross failed response during National Disasters
"In 2012, two massive storms pounded the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry or without power for days and weeks.
Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Red Cross, confident their money would ease the suffering left behind by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Isaac. They believed the charity was up to the job.
They were wrong.
The Red Cross botched key elements of its mission after Sandy and Isaac, leaving behind a trail of unmet needs and acrimony, according to an investigation by ProPublica and NPR. The charity’s shortcomings were detailed in confidential reports and internal emails, as well as accounts from current and former disaster relief specialists.
What’s more, Red Cross officials at national headquarters in Washington, D.C. compounded the charity’s inability to provide relief by “diverting assets for public relations purposes,” as one internal report puts it. Distribution of relief supplies, the report said, was “politically driven.”
The failed response of the Red Cross and other organizations is one of the reasons I put together the KTD Drive. That way people would have SOME WAY of helping themselves.
As the Red Cross is more about Public Relations and Fund Raising instead of you know, actually doing their job of helping people after a disaster.
What do I think the problem is? Too much reliance on large national organizations, and too little reliance on local organizations to the detriment of said local organizations.
Too many places instead of setting up their own policies instead use the Red Cross as a Hail Mary play to come in after the fact. And put off accountability for their own policies.
In many local communities there is NO disaster relief plan other than "Call the Red Cross" or "Call F.E.M.A.".
What happened to the local organizations and groups that would look at what was happening and start putting their own assets into motion?
This over reliance on the National Organizations or the Federal Government is a detriment to us all.
Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Red Cross, confident their money would ease the suffering left behind by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Isaac. They believed the charity was up to the job.
They were wrong.
The Red Cross botched key elements of its mission after Sandy and Isaac, leaving behind a trail of unmet needs and acrimony, according to an investigation by ProPublica and NPR. The charity’s shortcomings were detailed in confidential reports and internal emails, as well as accounts from current and former disaster relief specialists.
What’s more, Red Cross officials at national headquarters in Washington, D.C. compounded the charity’s inability to provide relief by “diverting assets for public relations purposes,” as one internal report puts it. Distribution of relief supplies, the report said, was “politically driven.”
The failed response of the Red Cross and other organizations is one of the reasons I put together the KTD Drive. That way people would have SOME WAY of helping themselves.
As the Red Cross is more about Public Relations and Fund Raising instead of you know, actually doing their job of helping people after a disaster.
What do I think the problem is? Too much reliance on large national organizations, and too little reliance on local organizations to the detriment of said local organizations.
Too many places instead of setting up their own policies instead use the Red Cross as a Hail Mary play to come in after the fact. And put off accountability for their own policies.
In many local communities there is NO disaster relief plan other than "Call the Red Cross" or "Call F.E.M.A.".
What happened to the local organizations and groups that would look at what was happening and start putting their own assets into motion?
This over reliance on the National Organizations or the Federal Government is a detriment to us all.
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