Posted: Mar 08, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 8
An internal Free the Children document shows this borehole, constructed in Osenetoi, Kenya, in 2013, was budgeted at $50,000 US. Three different groups in North America stated they raised funds for the borehole, amounts totalling far in excess of the cost of the deep water well.(Submitted by Donna McFarlane)
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.
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