According to Wendy Underwood, "Have you seen the posts about the Red Cross and their abuse of volunteers and evacuees? Well, this is going to blow you away! They are throwing supplies into the trash in Houston. But don't worry, they said they can collect more from what's going on in Florida. I'm glad they are so respectful of their donors hard earned money."
Did you donate to the Red Cross when they were taking in donations during the siege from Hurricane Harvey all around Houston and down to Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange?People from everywhere were donating to the Red Cross. According to the director at the Houston Red Cross station, Wendy Underwood was told, 'it's ok. We (the Red Cross) are going to get a lot more in Florida.'
Luckily, Wendy Underwood is an animal lover who knows a lot of good rescues in the Houston area. She is on her way back to the Red Cross for another load so hundreds if not thousands of dollars in kindly donations will not rot and spoil in the aftermath of Harvey.
Pit bulls and other animals has not yet heard of any monetary donations being returned by the Red Cross, only food, blankets and supplies for the displaced animals due to Hurricane Harvey. We are accustomed to looting during a disaster, but this is taking it up a notch.
Shady dealings with donations is not news with the Red Cross. NPR reported the Red Cross spent 25 percent of the donation money, nearly 125 million dollars, for the 2010 Haiti earthquake on internal expenses like 'management costs' and 'administrative fees.'
Wendy shot a video of some of the items she salvaged from the Red Cross:
This entire debacle begs the simple question, why didn't the Red Cross post a notice on social media to share the donations with local rescuers? When we tried to find an address for the Red Cross location in Houston to refer questions, all that came up was a huge donation page. Maybe they should include a caveat that donations in kind will be thrown out in the garbage.
UPDATE: 9/13/2017-it was brought to our attention that local rescues found out about the surplus and all donations have been picked up by rescue groups and several small shelters for people and pets.
Snopes performed a fact check and came up with the same response we did from the Red Cross:
If you have any Hurricane Harvey stories, please forward to Pit bulls and other animals.
Where is the link to these stories? I have not heard any of these.
ReplyDeleteI did afact check on this story and it is not correct and Wendy Underwood is not responding to any requests that have been sent to her. She also states on her FB, that she shared the video, that someone else posted, and did not bother to do a fact check on the story before sharing and actually stated that she does not have to do a fact check before sharing a video that someone else posted.
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ReplyDeletewhy has Ms. Underwood not responded to the Red Cross nor Snopes about these allegations? http://www.snopes.com/red-cross-waste-supplies-texas-harvey/
ReplyDeleteI will never ever help Red Cross not because of this but over many years of watching them and how they deal with people and donations
ReplyDeleteMy grandma told me about a bill she got from red cross during wwII when they supplied some blood for my uncle that died in the pacific! She was so mad. after that redcross was lower then whale crap to her. I don't like it either.
ReplyDeleteI resent the big salaries the Red Cross pays. If this is true that donated goods were tossed in the garbage, it is despicable.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone read the Snopes article and watch the videos? Snopes said it's UNPROVEN. The CBS video was interesting, and the Red Cross lady admitted that sometimes things are thrown away. But she said it's mainly because disaster workers don't have time to sort thru clothing, etc., they're not allowed to serve homemade food because it can go bad, can't use open packages of anything. She had some legitimate reasons why things were thrown away--like a ton of winter coats for people in Honduras! I did some research on the Red Cross and a couple of other charities, and the $500k salary of their CEO isn't at all out of line with other charities. It sounds like a lot, but it's average compared to others. I've never donated to Red Cross and I probably won't. But I don't like to see wrong info spread around.
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