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Haiti Roundup: Celebrity’s Charity Revamps Financial Oversight, and Aid Groups Complain About Delivery Routes
Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation announced Friday that it has hired new accountants and will revamp its spending practices, reports The Washington Post. The group, among the biggest fund-raisers in the immediate aftermath of the quake, has come under fire over its administrative spending and payments to businesses controlled by Mr. Jean.
Humanitarian organizations are getting more vocal in their complaints about landing priorities at Port-au-Prince’s damaged airport, which is under U.S. Air Force control, reports The New York Times. The global medical charity Doctors Without Borders said last week that eight of its planes were diverted.
Playing a central role in the Haiti Relief Effort is Partners in Health, a 25-year-old group, says The Boston Globe. The charity raised $25-million in the first week after the earthquake and has seen its e-mail list grow more than five times, to 160,000.
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