Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Mardi
15 Mai
19:00
Dinner served at Cedar Tree Cafe until 6:45pm then beverages only. The film screening will also feature a book launch, Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's development NGOs from idealism to imperialism with co-author Dru Oja Jay.
Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Michele Mitchell / US / 2012 / 58 ' / Anglais - Haitian Creole
A doc that asks the pivotal question—why did so much money buy so little relief? And why are so many still living in squalor?
Synopsis
In the United States alone, half of all households gave a total of $1.4 billion to charities, yet almost two years later more than half a million people still live in squalid camps. Only a few have access to drinking water. Sanitation is woefully inadequate. Malnutrition and cholera are on the rise. What happened?
Cameras take viewers to crowded camps where thousands of families live under tattered tarps beside overflowing latrines, and then into the board rooms of relief organizations, where journalist Michele Mitchell asks the American Red Cross and others about why conditions in Haiti continue to deteriorate when people have donated billions of dollars for aid.
Comments