Charity Scandal?

Wyclef Jean is an American Haitian who back in 2005 started the Yele Haiti Foundation. This man is a muscian and he was featured in Shakira's hips don't lie song. For the first few years of this Charity it did a lot of good work by helping the Haiti kids get scholarships to schools. In just two years they provided almost 7,000 for kids in just two years. After the earthquake in 2010 they wanted to try to produce at least 6,800 scholarships for kids. But according to some sources the Yele Gaiti foundation did not give all of the money they raised to help the earthquake victims. They raised $16 million and only $5.1 million was actually used to help the Haitians. That is only a third of the money raised was used.


the source    http://www.nme.com/news/wyclef-jean/60663

Background of Earthquake

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred about 10 miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince. Combined over 300,00 homes were damaged in someway, over 100,000 of those homes were destroyed completely.  This earthquake left  about 1.5 million Haitians homeless. They believe the death toll is some where between 200,000 - 250,000, they are not really sure how many have actually died because there were so many bodies not found and people are still reported missing. Americans donated $1.6 million
to the country of Haiti, Obama donated $200,000 himself. There are numerous charities now working to help rebuild the country of Haiti. Haiti's government said it would take at least $12 billion to do so.






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