The Week | 17th February 2018
OXFAM'S DISGRACE: THE SCANDAL THAT ROCKED THE AID WORLD
More than one thousand two hundre people have cancelled their monthly donations to Oxfam in response to revelations that its aid workers hired prostitutes for sex parties in Haiti while caring for victims of the 2010 earthquake. Oxfam’s director in the country at the time, Roland van Hauwermeiren, invited prostitutes to a hilltop villa rented for him by the charity; another property was used by aid workers for parties described by one insider as “young meat barbecues” resembling a “full-on Caligula orgy”. An Oxfam internal report admits that some of the women may have been underage. Oxfam has denied any intentional cover-up, but its deputy CEO, Penny Lawrence, has since submitted her resignation.
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