Where UNICEF Funds Go

Judi McLeod fills us in:

The same UN agency that enjoys the high Halloween profile is the one that last February received $9 million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to buy bednets for Ethiopia to protect children in poor families from malaria—only to turn around and sell them.
And the sad story of UNICEF exploiting the poor doesn’t stop there.
The $9 million grant sounds generous on the face of it, until you consider that CIDA appears to be abandoning an earlier, $26 million bednet program led by the Canadian Red Cross.
“As a biologist and lawyer who studies the problems of the world’s poorest people, I have watched the politics and science of malaria programs for a decade,” wrote Dr. Amir Attaran in the Ottawa Citizen. “Never have I found a bednet program that is as efficient as saving children’s lives as that of the Canadian Red Cross. The reason for their success is simple: unlike UNICEF, which in Ethiopia intends to sell bednets to families whose household income is often only a dollar a day, the Canadian Red Cross gives them away free.”

Sad that the US children on Hallowwen are duped by liberals into supporting this corrupt organization.