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Nearly two years after the earthquake disaster in Haiti, Wyclef’s organization Yele Haiti, is still being accused of mismanagement. According to Sunday’s NY Post article, only $5.1 of the $16 million raised went towards Haiti. Mr. Jean reacted to accusation after the jump.
I started Yele in 2005 because I wanted to help people that were helpless in my home country of Haiti. People who didn’t have a voice, people who didn’t have resources, people who had mostly been forgotten.
Since Yele launched six years ago we have helped close to half a million people. I will always love and serve the Haitian people until the day I die.
The NY Post piece entitled, “Questions Dog Wyclef’s Haiti Fund” is misleading, deceptive and incomplete. The Post conveniently fails to acknowledge that the decisions that Yele made were a response to one of the world’s most catastrophic natural disasters in modern history and required an immediate humanitarian response.
There were no roads, no clean water, no sanitation, no banks, no electricity, no infrastructure. Immediate decisions were made to save lives and alleviate suffering. We made decisions that enabled us to provide emergency assistance in the midst of chaos and we stand by those decisions. We did the best we could with the available resources.
I am proud of the way that Yele handled the crisis on the ground in 2010. We were able to feed, clothe, provide medical assistance and shelter for more than 250 thousand people in need.
What the article doesn’t say is that the construction projects funded by Yele Haiti were responsible for rebuilding an orphanage, building a temporary assistance facility, and had constructed a system of out door toilet and shower facilities in Cite Soliel one of the largest slums in Port-au-Prince.
The Post never highlights that Amisphere Farm Labor was responsible for preparing and delivering close to 100,000 meals.
The Samosa SA property referenced by The Post was located in the vicinity of the largest tent camps in Port-au-Prince. Yele chose that location because it was closest to the people it needed serve.
All of these facts as well as photos and testimonials were readily available to The Post for their story. Unfortunately, they chose not to include these facts and instead chose to imply that Yele “squandered” donors money.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Finally, the percentage of funds used is consistent with NGOs and Not For Profits operating in Haiti at the time. I have acknowledged that Yele has made mistakes in the past, including being late in IRS filings, but that is old news. When I entered politics last summer, I transitioned from being a board member and chairman of Yele Haiti to a supporter.
The new and good news is that Yele under new leadership, despite efforts to undermine its credibility and effectiveness, continues its mission to serve people in need.
– Wyclef Jean
Tags: haiti, ny post, wyclef jean
this is probably the 5th or 6th seperate article ive read about this in the past 2 years. maybe he is actually stealing. i know people hate obviously, but this clearly wont go away. there has to be something going on in his charity, u can never really know with greed and debt.
Considering NYPost is owned by Fox News I question the source of such article…
Yeah of course attack Clef and yet not a dime from all that Red Cross donation money has been seen in Haiti trust I know for a fact and yet no one says isht about that? GTFOH so u’r telling me that since the 90′s Clef has been reppin Haiti and set up an NGO in preparation for this disaster 16 years later to steal money smh whatever as usual trust the “media”
Give that money back wyclef. Exactly why I don’t donate shit.
The only reason they’re condemning Wyclef is because they don’t want people to send money to his organization so they can have complete control of the funds to fill their own wallets with. Stop being sheep and think for yourself. The media is a tool that is used to blind and mislead the masses from what is really going on. Wake up people.
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clef is officially set for life after that earthquake
all charities are scams… oldest hustle in the book
We don’t believe you, you need more people.
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Good point, but remember ‘Clef was suppose to have been helping Haiti out BEFORE the earthquake hit. It’s when it hit, the spotlight came like “hold up, if you been helping why are people so worse off.”
@Ben you don’t donate because your a cheap motherfucker. I donated to yele and like me brother told me once you give after that it’s between them and god.
It’s good to donate however you can. But it’s much better to NOT be lazy, and actually donating to a specific cause in Haiti that you want to support, instead of willingly gambling the money by sending a check to one of these corporate charities.
The fact that he states that he gave what he legally was obligated to is a red flag. AUDIT AUDIT AUDIT!
Donate money but do your homework on who or what your giving to. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
It doesnt take a whole Novel to Proclaim your Innocence.It’s either you did it or you didnt.This Topic of him stealing just won’t go away,so I would say this Ashy Bum us Guilty.
The sad thing about this is you guys are believing a news paper that is ran by the Right Wing of the Republican party. And they wanted to do was put doubt in your heads. “Mission Accomplished”
Its sad that you guys rather believe outsiders before you believe your own people. Like these same people didnt rape, lie, cheat, steal, and murder for thousands of years.
If they actually had proof of this, they would of put all their cards on the table by now. They are slandering his name and all you guys are doing is making it worst.
Its sad that our people have bust their asses to put us in a solid position in this country, even died for us, and in less than 40 years we have become worst than they were in the 60′s.
Sad Fuckin Days Man… Sad Fuckin Days…
I agree w/ “NoNotToday”
why hasn’t the NY Post investigated the other non profits…SMH. Just asking for fairness in reporting
lmao at this being a conspiracy. As it was mentioned in another post, Yele Haiti has been investigated multiple times since the earthquake due to money missing, money being improperly spent and couldn’t be accurately verified on tax records.
This was the initial Smoking Gun post that contributed to Wyclef resigning as head from Yele in August 10. Why resign if you aren’t guilty?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/wyclef-jean-charitys-funny-money
zero respect for Wyclef.
Are the plenty of other charities out there that are running similar cons? Unfortunately, yes. Many of them run by celebrities too.
But Clef is the one that got caught, partially because he brought so much attention to himself. When you’re bringing in a few hundred thousand a year and sliding it back to your people, that’s one thing. You can get away with that.
When you’re bringing in 16 mill, it’s a whole different ballgame. Forget about the moral implications, what he did was plain stupid. lazy. he knew that people were going to be checking up on him after the initial controversy, and yet he’s still funneling money to companies fronted by his brother in law. common’ clef….
The Post definitely isn’t above slander/lies, but sorry to say this one rings true to me…..
This guy runs youtube
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WAIT wait wait.. where di dhe address the rumours that he kept a lot of the money raised for yele haiti exactly?? he didnt once adress if the money had been all giiven to haiti or not
Easternpkwy aint ever lied
really?! so Wyclef doesn’t have enough money already with all the solo albums, fugees’ royalty and everything else? so y’all really think he stole those milllions? so if it were true, why wouldn’t the governement get involved because last I remember, the gov’t doesn’t like competition when it comes to stealing money and he would’ve been locked up a long time ago…second of all, why did he resign: c’mon now, clef is obviously the image behind the fundation he raised (years before the earthquake!) and is obviously NOT full-time at it, so he delegates; problem with delegation is that you’ll never know who has a taste for the finer things in life or owes money to the wrong people so that money can be redirected to god knows what while clef is doing a back-flip somewhere in the world; I mean, are we all that naïve to think that all charities give 100% of that money back to those who need it…bottom line, obviously I can’t defend clef 100% on that cuz there’s still that “I would’ve never expected that from clef” factor but I don’t think he done any of it.