Hurricane Aid Was Mishandled, Government Says
April 7, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Federal officials acknowledged at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday that donations of food, medicine, and $126-million in cash from foreign governments to help Hurricane Katrina victims were left unused or wasted because of confusion over how to handle them, The New York Times reports.
At the hearing, a federal official also noted that only $10-million of the $66-million earmarked in October to enable the United Methodist Committee on Relief to help Katrina victims had been spent so far.
The charity said that its plan was working as designed and that the group was gearing up to provide help to storm victims.
