Haiti Aid Did Not Go to Haiti

Remeber Haiti? Remember how a long time ago I posted on how foreign aid had failed before and how we should expect it to fail again.

This time it's Time kicking the article around, but they have a fact I hadn't run in to before which bears to be repeated:

Only 10% of the foreign aid to Haiti was actually spent there.

After this it should come as no surprise nothing worth noting in the way of rebuilding a nation happened after the earthquake. 12,000 NGO's in a country, millions of dollars in contracts given to U.S. companies instead of Haiti ones, a cholera epidemic and a government which has relinquished control to the NGO's largely when they should've been in charge.

It doesn't sound like a place which needs more foreign money, now does it? There was a lesson to be learnt there, and there is a lesson to be learnt now, too bad it is the same lesson.