WE Charity’s donor deception in Kenya | Finding School No.4

WE Charity told a parliamentary committee it had built 360 primary schoolhouses in Kenya with donors’ money, so we went there to see first-hand if the number of schools funded matched the number of schools actually built.

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[ksgrmdsdl]

As a Kenyan, it is so disheartening to learn that some people can exploit the poor and weak for their own greed. Thankfully, everything done in darkness eventually comes to light.

[florenceobura]

They thought Kenya is so remote and backward that nobody would ever find out what they are doing. Shock on them.

[lookinin]

Wow! Actual boots-on-the-ground journalism. Well done, Fifth Estate.

[sherylparker]

Scamming money from the generosity of unsuspecting children, and
parents whose children have passed is truly despicable! I love when
light is shined into the darkness! ✝️🙏

[devendramalla]

Shame on WE, Shame on the Kenyan Authorities. Huge respect to The Fifth Estate.

[hevand_co]

This is why people don't trust charities which is heart breaking, I think the fifth estate did a wonderful job in looking into this & following through, they're the people trying to do good, not the WE movement!

[anjunabeachball]

As a kenyan, we appreciate the fact that there are people from a different corner of the earth that are willing to help us out of the kindness of their heart, but it has to stop. The truth is that our government is completely capable of taking care of its citizens, although they choose not to. Why? Because of corrupt people in power. And what these donations do is motivate these morally deficient people to vie for top positions.
This goes out to the lenders as well. Stop lending us money. It all gets embezzled and who do you think pays for them later? Us the citizens. And we’re already seeing evidence of this through excessive taxation in the recent years.

[sullivan]

Any charity whose fundraising events come across like megachurch services is automatically suspect in my opinion. Why are the brothers not doing time for their fraud?

My cousin worked for World Vision in Mississauga and told me that out of $100 donation only about 1.25 goes to help feed hunger !
An absolute scam !
Needless to say she quit immediately after coming across this info and was told to keep her mouth shut.
She obviously didn’t and decided to speak up and expose them for who they really are .

[Eeveelyn]

When a charity does shady things like this it doesn't only hurt their reputation, it creates mistrust to charity in general. It can especially hurt a charity which has a similar goal to WE as people may confuse them. In the end the one who are going to pay for this are the people who really need that help. It's just so disgusting

[denniswachira]

As a Kenyan construction manager, it is so sad to see this happening. It costs less than a USD7000 to build a single class and the amounts raised in this scheme, should have built a lot of schools considering our environment and availability of the materials. Thanks for exposing this. Any donor to Africa should always do their research before giving.

[katmarcoux]

I had a similar issue with Plan Canada... I've been to Kenya twice and made it a point to visit my foster child ie via Plan Kenya.... long story short the money I was sending seemed to be funding the Administration and not the family...

[Manofthehour]

As a Kenyan I always wondered how people running charities are always filthy rich

[theofficechair]

My high school like most Canadian schools had a tight relationship with Free the children. We went to their office in Toronto twice and our school was located in Ottawa. We went to WE Days. Their reps would attend our assemblies. It was always about money, not about doing good. It was a status and popularity thing to donate to them, go on trips to Kenya to "build schools" aka dig in the dirt and buy their accessories that were apparently made by women in Africa to give them a job 🙃 not donating was social suicide. during a visit to the headquarters in Toronto I was kicked out for bringing a copy of their prior year's spending available by searching their charity # and asking why so little actually went to programming and >50% to promotional materials. I'm just glad they won't be able to scan another generation of kids out of their allowances and birthday money.

[kijanamzee]

as a Kenyan employee at WE school in Kisaruni, I can assure you that everything covered by the 5th estate is true.
They even couch the children on what to tell to the donors when they visit, always about the money.

[chrismutisya]

The collusion between government officials and WE Charity is just appalling and sickening.

[maureenwm]

That governor's behavior highly suggests that he got kickbacks from WE.

[johnpatrick]

These two brothers are like the many televangelists that fleece their flocks. Just a different audience used to pull heartstrings.

[kelvinmutuma]

I live in Kenya and one thing I'll tell people for sure. Any charity organizations working hand in hand with any official from the government is CORRUPT to the core. Although, there good ones really doing a good job of bringing change in our society and we are grateful 🙏

[unsolved]

Great job guys! Haven't been a political person until these lockdowns, never thought corruption was a thing in our country. Keep fighting the good fight.