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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jun 15, 2015
• Views : 764
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : NPR
  JUNE 12, 201510:01 AM ET
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/12/413791387/american-red-cross-press-conference-in-haiti-gets-heated

Overview

• Haitian journalists pressed an official from the American Red Cross to explain how the charity spent almost half a billion dollars in the country — but got few answers at a news conference this week at Le Plaza Hotel in downtown Port-au-Prince.
  
  Frustrated journalists began talking over the official, Walker Dauphin, after he appeared to avoid providing details explaining where the money went, according to a video of the gathering.
  
  The news conference was a response to NPR's investigation with ProPublica into the charity — which found repeated failures on the organization's part to deliver on promises to help the country rebuild. The charity has so far declined to provide information on what programs it ran, how much they cost or what their expenses were. Many of the statistics the charity has offered about its work have been refuted by Haitian officials and by the Red Cross' own records.
  
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