Feed the Children’s Earthquake-Relief Work Questioned
February 22, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Christian relief charity Feed the Children, which remains embroiled in a messy leadership fight, may have inflated claims about the size of its relief efforts in Haiti, according to CBS News.
The charity in Oklahoma City has aired Haiti-themed fund-raising ads and claimed on its Web site that it was providing “medical relief for 12,000 people” at a camp west of Port-au-Prince. After sending a camera crew to the camp, CBS reported that the site was being run by local monks and nuns and that Feed the Children had only three doctors in Haiti.
The organization has since changed its online claims. Feed the Children officials said the charity did not intend to mislead anyone and has sent more than $12-million in supplies to Haiti, The Oklahoman reports.
