Are no strangers who hardship, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible. It has collapsed almost entirely this coming tuesday marks six years since a massive earthquake rocked haiti. It killed or injured thousands p and left more than a Million People homeless. Aid works were dispatched and billions of dollars were raised in donations. Many of you texted contributions to help them. More than 13 billion dollars was pledged worldwide. Where did all that money go . Over the next two nights im going to take up through the slums and tent cities and across the rurl bad lands of the haitian countryside. You will hear from many who are still trying to piece their lives together. You will also hear from the people most accountable for what has and has not happened with all that money. The list clues the head of the United Nations in haiti, the director of the American Red Cross and the man who has run haiti for last half decade, the president. We follow the money trail. This man was in haiti in 2010 and then covered the earthquakes first hand. Six years later we sent him back to investigate how billions of dollars in donations was actually spent. Here is part 1 of this on target special report. Haiti on shaky ground. Reporter six years ago security cameras captured this scene from inside haitis president ial palace. When the dust finally settled, more than 150,000 people will have perished from a massive earthquake that ripped through the western hemispheres poorest nation. The only bright spot, massive world attention. Aid groups descend on haiti. In the u. S. And across the globe governments pledged more than 13 billion dollars at the urging of those such as first lady obama. We can all do something. We can help the american red ro cross to deliver things that can save love. Reach deep and reach deeper. Reporter 13 billion, a staggering outpouring, roughly the double economic output of haiti before the quake. Half a decade after the devastation a number of scathing reports pose the question where did all the money go . So a year later we travelled back to haiti to try and find out and see if things had improved. At first glance the city appears to be on the rebound. The rubble is gone and construction is underway. A closer look reveals tens of thousands of haitians are still living in tents and on the street. Homes have no Running Water and theres a skinning will toilet for every 82 people. Raw sewerage runs through the streets. Translation no translation provided provided. Reporter this is a man, an elected official in a nearby area, there are still refugees living in tents here from the quake. When was the last time that somebody from the International Community was actually down here to help . Translation he is saying that the french red cross was down here in 2014 but some of these tarps date back to 2011. You can see them. Theyve got holes in them, they dont really hold water and many of the people here express a degree of anger to the fact that almost six years on theyre still living in these tent cities. Reporter despite some ten thousand aid groups working in haiti there are at least 73 different sites where families are still living in tents. To try and get some answers, we went to meet the person running much of the relief effort. Head of the United Nations mission in haiti. Where is the United Nations in terms of achieving some of its goals in terms of housing and water sanitation, because when you drive around different parts of the capital, theres still tent cities. Were talking about 13 billion dollars in aid. If im not mistaken, the figure of the number of people now in these camps is 60,000. Reporter that is a huge number, 60 thousand internally displaced people nearly six years after the earthquake when you consider that after the earthquake there were some 1. 5 Million People living in camps for the internally displaced, i think the statistics speak for themselves. Reporter is your message to someone who is in one of these camps just hold on a couple more years or a couple more months or you . No. We are already working on programs and plans to move these people out of the camps its a 13 billion dollar mystery. Coming up, searching for signs of recovery. Reporter it is not clear when you walk around this neighborhood where all money was spent. The only Live National news show at 11 00 eastern. We start with breaking news. Lets take a closer look. Six years after the Haiti Earthquake scars of the disaster remain visible for all to see. That might seem understandable given that haiti is the western hemispheres poorest country. It hardly has the resources for a full recovery on its own. But haiti didnt go if alone. Foreign donors pledged more than 13 billion dollars to help rebuild. That is more than double the countrys economic output before the quake, but the amount of money that was pledged is far less than the amount of money the victims received. Less than 8 billion was actually disbursed and of that it is not clear if the money was well spent. Six years on, our correspondent travelled to haiti to find out. Here is more of our special report, haiti on shaky ground. Reporter weve come to a place called korai, which is on the outskirts of portauprince. The reason that weve come here is it is an area where several thousand earthquake refugees were sent. We essentially came to see for ourselves what progress has been made. [ ] reporter there are some signs of development here, houses that are builtin this complex, but many of the people here are still living in these transitional shelters. There are thin wooden boards that dont provide much protection from the elements. Its not clear when you walk around this neighborhood where all that money was spent. The climate here is arid and soil salty which makes growing crops difficult. Water must be trucked in and residents must hitch rides to reach the local markets. Much of what was built right after the quake was only supposed to be temporary, but in this dusty community an hours drive from the capital, many say these temporary shelters have a permanent feel. Fewer than one in five are actually considered longterm solutions according to amnesty international. As a result many live in makeshift homes and scratch out a living here. Translation reporter a few places where those promises more evident than in a hill side neighborhood called cam pesh. The red cross received nearly half a billion dollars and it made this area a priority. Part of a project that in 2010 pledged to build 700 new homes for victims of the quake. Yet today nearly six years on the red cross could not account for the number of permanent houses that it has built here. A spokesman for the group explained that it adjusted its strategy after determined landownership records were so vague that it was hard to decipher who owned what, something that stymied construction and frustrated residents. Translation reporter the red cross says it instead focuses on rental assistance, home repairs, infrastructure and provided housing aid to 22,000 families. Improvements are evident here but many still live in makeshift shacks made of corrugated tin. This lady, a resident here, says that despite all the aid dollars, the help that many were promised still hasnt come. Translation reporter so where, then, did all the money go . The red cross boasts more than one million projects, many of which clearly benefit the people, but specifically how nearly half a billion dollars in aid was spent is not clear. A red cross Valuation First reported determined there was no correct process for monitoring project spending on initiative. I think what happened is that they had so much money that they became their own development agency, their own donor. They were distributing money to other organizations like a grantee. This presented some interesting challenges for the red cross and certainly they ventured into an area that they werent comfortable operating in reporter the red cross on using at least 47 contractors in haiti many of which subcontract themselves. Thats where the money trail goes cold. Following aid trails as they go from group to group and contract to contract across haiti is impossible. As they extract their fees, the total amount of aid for victims shrinks, but it is only part of the problem. The way it is set up is that these institutions, these organizations, who receive funding are largely responsible to their funders and not to those communities reporter in total roughly 13 billion was pledged to haiti after the quake. According to the government, only about 9 billion was ever allocated. In fact, 94 of humanitarian aid went to foreign organizations due to concerns of local corruption. But analysts say that kind of aid delivery undermines local Civil Society and adds bureaucracy to a system that makes aaid groups more accountable to their funders than local populations we have to look for a solution and its not going to come from this International Community. It has got to come from us. We have to stop accepting some poisonous gift. Reporter in the meantime, the current aid structure in haiti remains and has allowed tens of thousands of earthquake refugees to remain right here, still living under a tent and still on shaky ground he was in haiti in 2010 to cover the earthquake. Youve gone back now. In your mind is it clear despite the criticism that almost half the money hasnt gone to where it was supposed to be, do you see an improvement . You cant state how bad it was. The entire city seemed like it had collapsed. Every building was just in sheer rubble. There were bodies on the streets. Even the president ial palace had crumbled. So just the sheer scope of the devastation there. There was something that the haitian government was over whelmed by. This is why this aid came in. The amount of money that came down there was twice the economic gdp of haiti prior to the quake. So haiti was in this loan here. The amount of money and aid workers, you would think that there wouldnt still be tens of thousands of people still living on the streets. You walk around the different tent camps and theres no Running Water. There is a single latrine to 72 to 82 people. You just cant get a sense of how frustrated these people are in the sense that six years later theyre still living in these tent cities i think it was around 6 billion dollars. It suffered from infrastructure problems. A lot of those buildings collapsed because they p werent built to the code that we would be used to right the aid that goes in, is the aim to get them to where they were in 2010 because that makes them quake. Yes. Thats right. I think the frustration is the sheer amount of aid dollars that came in and the lack of progress. That said, you do see construction in the capital, particularly in the center city. There is construction, the rubble is mostly gone. There is some evidence of a resurgence here, but it is on the outskirts, identifying how this is going to play out with the infrastructure concerns that many people have. When you look at haiti, one of the biggest things to keep in mind is this is a country that has been reliant upon the Foreign Community for years. U. N. Has been there since the early 1990s. They have more than 10,000 aid groups doing everything from water sanitation to trash removals. These are things that basic Civil Society is to take hold of. Just as a result of sheer deluge of foreign aid theyve come to rely on foreign institutions. So that Civil Society doesnt exist like it should its not getting built properly exactly to what degree is it better in some peoples mind that it is being kept out of the hands of the government because haiti has a rift of corruption this is the argument that many people you will hear about. The Clinton Foundation will say we have to be the gobetween here in terms of getting things done because there is that concern of local corruption. So many leaders have been implicated in the past over those different tiess to dempbt sectors. As a foreign investor it is hard to have that invest government sectors. Youre not building the selfsustaining institutions. As a result of bigger problem is the haitians will start to gravitate to jobs in the foreign institutions. You have this brain drain away from the Civil Society in haiti International Community and haiti hasnt been able to stand on its own thank you. Coming up, i will try to find out what went wrong with the worldwide worldwide worldwide effort to help haiti with the top bosses. Welcome to al jazeera america. More reporters, more stories more perspective. From our awardwinning news teams across america and beyond. Weve got global news covered. Were talking tonight about the 2010 earthquake in haiti and the huge out pouring of money across the globe. Tens of millions of dollars were donated. The American Red Cross received 488 Million Dollars to help haiti. Six years later lots of people are asking where did all the money go . Earlier you heard david report on the frustrations of haitians in a poor neighborhood of portauprince. They had high hopes for a 24 Million Dollar red cross project designed to build 700 homes, but noone at the american red could tell us how many permanent homes were actually built. To get some answers i spoke with the American Red Cross regional director for latin america. Here is our conversation we have built today homes for 350 families, but thats out of a total target of 500. Thats only a fraction of the work that weve done to date. In haiti the American Red Cross has helped to put 22,000 families back in safer homes and safer conditions, helping them leave the camps and its really not it doesnt do justice to not talk about the bigger picture. The American Red Cross is involved in all types of programming aside from housing. Weve invested in health and health infrastructure. Weve funded the operations and construction of eight hospitals and clinics. Weve funded the first waste Water Treatment plant. Were involved in Economic Development programming that helps create savings in groups in the communities throughout the area that we work you heard our report. Were thorough about telling the story. Were not about the sensational headline. Youre involved in more than 100 projects on the ground and a lot of the money that was raised has gone to real projects, but to get it out of the way, it is said that that particular project were talking about, they said six houses were built. Youre saying many more than that. Youre saying 350. Yeah. Theres no truth to that figure at all. In fact, that particular project, again, has a target of 500. You mentioned an initial target which its only fair to say as we budget for programs we put figures on paper, but the most important first step in any programming is to engage the community that were there to serve. Thats how American Red Cross works. The community itself prioritised the development that it wanted for that neighborhood and, in fact, it is surprising to many, many people, but, in fact, housing is not on the first even five or ten things on the list. What people in these very hardhit communities want is access to clean water, they want Sanitation Services, they want access to health care. They want to make sure their children are going to schools that are safe. We have engaged in that community and others in the reconstruction of schools, in the reconstruction of clinics and hospitals, and, in fact, if youve walked that area, then you will see the tremendous change over time weve invested in side walks and staircases and installing hundreds of lights in that community, the new water system, Sanitation Services i appreciate what youve done. Again, i think our reporting has been pretty fair on this, that we really are outlining that youve spent a lot of money and done a lot of work. Theres no question that the red cross was chosen by Michelle Obama because of red crosss reputation, but i do want to go on some issue. It has contracted out to subcontract companies. Some are haitian and not. I have the impression that red cross has spelt decades in building, there seems to be some issue of loss of efficiency as you go down the contractors and subcontractors. Tell me, give me some context around this. Sure. The American Public entrusted funds to us and we take that responsibility very, very seriously. In fact, we believe that one of our greatest strengths is working in partnership, working in collaboration with other likeminded organizations, not companies as you suggest. We have sought out organizations that have very special capacities and skills that will compliment the work that we do and the commitment that we have to the people. These organizations are helping us to build hospitals, do drug training, they work sidebyside with red cross volunteers and red cross staff in all of our project sites. One thing i should add is we really believe that working collaboratively is, in fact, much more efficient. It helps us avoid duplication of efforts, it helps us ensure gaps are covered, and it helps us expand our reach. Thats what the American People gave us funding to do, to save lives and to help as many people as we could recover from the disaster. In fact, we worked very closely with these organizations to negotiate overheads to remain as low as possible. In some cases theyre zero. So we really do believe its a very effective and efficient way to leverage donor dollar and we think american should be proud tomorrow, part 2 on our ground. To bring people from a country where cholera was endemic. I mean, that was criminal. Recent testing has indicated with almost certainty that this particular strain of cholera has come from u. N. Relief workers thats tomorrow on target at 9 ian. Thats our story 9. Thats our story. The news follows tonight. I think its really important for us not to suggest that if we cant solve every crime we shouldnt try to solve any crimes seeking support for his executive actions on gun control and the town hall meeting with supporters and critics. China rebounds after a week that wiped away billions will it mean a better day for stocks in the u. S. 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