A prominent donor to WE Charity has alleged that the charity was “duplicitous” in its relationships with donors and has failed to provide a proper accounting of its use of donor funds in Kenya.
Reed Cowan, a U.S. television journalist who estimates that he has mobilized millions of dollars for WE Charity, told a House of Commons committee that the charity had misled donors by promising sponsorship of the same Kenyan school to different groups without their knowledge.
Mr. Cowan said he has repeatedly asked the charity for a full accounting of all funds raised by him and his team of donors. “As of this date, I have not been provided that accounting,” he told the committee on Friday.[…]
Mr. Cowan had travelled to Kenya in 2007, on the first anniversary of his son’s death, to open a school in his son’s name. He said he was inspired by seeing Craig Kielburger, co-founder of WE Charity, speaking about the schools on an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s television show.
Recently, however, he discovered a video of the same school, emblazoned with the name of another U.S. philanthropist. The video, he said, “suggests damningly” that the charity had already held an opening celebration at the same school for a different donor.Less than two weeks later, the same ceremony was held again for Mr. Cowan’s donor group with the “same people, same songs, same everything – different plaques,” he said.
His opening statement can be viewed here.
Of course Blackie would give over
$900 000 000 taxpayers’ money to a bunch of white liberals to lecture black folks in Africa while defrauding everybody… A classic a la Clinton Foundation. And effing full on racist too.
Blackie…
This is the reason I NEVER give any money to organized charities. They attract rats to run their schemes.
Trudeau and his Keelburger pals are rats.
This is why our whole economic system is about to crash.
Too much corruption is sucking the system dry including the scammers in the housing market that just want higher commissions. The great Toronto escape has high priced housing cashing out for cheaper housing outside of Toronto.
Plus you have a nutbar Mayor who threatened massive tax increases while still blowing money in many pet projects.
And keeping businesses in illegal lockdowns.
Our politicians have such a different fantasy of our society in blowing Billions of dollars while stating the old normal is coming back.
No wonder the brothers got along so well with PM Shit-for-brains. They’re as phony as he is.
Same old, same old.
Tax breaks for all charities needs to be eliminated, that’s probably the only way to get rid of the massive corruption.
And? So what? What is going to happen? No one will ever be held accountable, we know that. They can and will do whatever they want because they know that there are too many sheep, and he’ll just get another majority.
They revel in their ignorance and naivete. They love and celebrate it. What can anyone possibly do in the face of such almost supernatural obstinance? When there are many more of them than us, there is nothing left to do but enjoy the delince. I’m tired. I just wish rock-bottom would hurry up so we can just get it over with.
And this is why I do charitable work, not make charitable donations. Any organization claiming to be a charity should be required to have its books open for inspection line by line with respect to revenues and expenses in a manner that is absolutely crystal clear. The groups I work with can account for every penny they receive and spend. It’s not hard if you’re doing real work overseas to help the less fortunate. Heck, the accountants we have can tell you where $5.00 went, never mind the WE “charity”, “Aw shucks, I forgot the $40,000 g(r)ift.” nonsense.
That testimony by Reed Cowan was compelling.
It does seem, the bigger they are, the looser the charities are with donations. The ideal is to find a Church group doing hands on work vs a Marxist group doing indoctrination in guise of social work. If possible, volunteer with the church group to see first hand how they operate.
Your estate can minimize tax by donating to a registered church group and if the group operates elsewhere, you have the satisfaction to knowing your hard earned savings will be spent outside Canada where they do more good and you have minimized what the leeches in Ottawa will be getting from your estate.
I seem to recall that young volunteers who paid to be part of the WE experience in Kenya admitted that they they didn’t do much. Things like move some blocks from one area to another. It was something that the volunteers could put on their resumes.
Now we discover that the fund donors got photo-ops of what their money had provided, though a revolving door of donors paid for the same charitable work. I can imagine that this was like the movie “The Producers”.
Do we know what happened to the buildings that WE bought in Toronto? Who got the money if they were sold?
Junior was pretty determined not to allow an investigation into WE and his family members. He was willing to call an election to stop that from happening.
Most charities’ primary function is to provide good jobs for lefties who haven’t managed to get onto the government payroll yet. In my humble personal opinion…
Vivian Krause asked what happened to the $480 million WE received in the US?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FairQuestions/status/1303800590238060549
She also provided a list of who donated to WE and how much.
Did any of this end up in Trudeau’s trust fund.
Kielburger sounds like a name from Nigeria.
tooney
Krimeburgers are good katholiks!
Note to WE Charities … “The Human Fund” was just a Seinfeld episode. It was not meant to be the blueprint for a multi-level marketing, international, “charitable” pyramid scheme.
So WE was not lying?
Those “administration costs” were legit,as it takes a fair bit of conniving and photo shopping to make a single project match the expectations of a dozen donors.
I wonder who was in charge of truthiness,making sure the proper lies were told to the right patron.
Government is theft and government provides great cover for fraud and corruption.
B@$#@rds. Every one of them.
I posted this a month or so ago, but here in the bush patch of New Brunswick, WE Charity is scheduled to hold a WE rally — replete with 8,000 screaming kiddies, rock bands and the K brothers — on May 26, 2022:
http://www.webelieve.ca
I had passed this info on to Brunswick News at the same time as SDA, and today they messaged me back that they may do a story on it. The media work at Bill Blair like speed.
That statement by Reed Cowan was coherently argued but Mr. Cowan doesn’t understand the situation.
PM Blackie has a pandemic to fight here in Canada and any accounting pertaining to Mr. Trudeau and his family and the We charity have all been deleted, disappeared and the questions answered.
i’m sorry but except for a couple of malcontents at the Globe or National Post Blackie’s loyal media won’t be bringing any of your questions forward.