Monday, March 8, 2021

FREQUENT COMPLAINTS ABOUT WE CHARITY FUNDRAISING TACTICS

A fundraising drive in a tight-knit community about 150 kilometres northwest of Toronto.
California philanthropists promoted by the Clinton Foundation.
Hundreds of school-age children hiking up Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver.

Each group donated tens of thousands of dollars in 2013 to WE Charity, then known as Free the Children, for what turned out to be the same deep water borehole well in the village of Osenetoi, Kenya — total amounts that far exceeded the cost of the well water project and raise questions about what the charity did with the extra money that was collected.

A former WE employee who liaised with outside fundraising groups told The Fifth Estate that they frequently heard complaints about the charity's fundraising tactics.

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