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American Red Cross Failure

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The American Red Cross (ARC) was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton, and is an organization which is supported by financial donations from individuals and businesses. The ARC was put into place to provide emergency relief for individual which has some type of disasters has caused them displacement or family emergencies. The ARC also helped prepare for disaster and sometimes even prevent disasters.
The American Red Cross was highly criticized for the way they handled the emergency reliefs of the 2001 terrorism attack which happened on 9/11 in 2001 and New Orleans flood Katrina in 2005. Even though the ARC has did a lot of good work they have had many allegations of fraud, and theft brought up against them. The allegations has been said to

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