CIDA’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: millions raised, nothing spent - The World Desk - Macleans.ca

CIDA’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: millions raised, nothing spent - The World Desk - Macleans.ca:

"When I was in Haiti, a 19-year-old American in military fatigues showed up with boxes of latex gloves. His heart was in the right place, but he didn’t really know what he was doing and had a nervous breakdown after picking up an amputated leg when he was asked to clean a hospital’s waste-strewn yard. He went home the next day.

Some of us had a good laugh about the episode. But at least he accomplished something. He gathered dirty bandages and let Haitians know they mattered to him. That’s more than CIDA has so far accomplished with the more than $100 million Canadians have donated to its Earthquake Relief Fund."