Claim: Red Cross stole emergency supplies from the doorsteps of churches, then sold them for profit
‘A Houston-area woman has made an explosive allegation that the American Red Cross scooped up Hurricane Harvey relief supplies that poured in from all over the country, and supposedly sold some of them — like bottle water — for a profit. Other supplies were discarded in dumpsters.
In a Facebook video, Gina Nelms claimed that the Red Cross helped themselves to supplies such as clothing, baby food, diapers, and blankets that were the result of generous donations from concerned Americans that were brought in to the disaster area on 18 wheelers. Boxes of supplies had temporarily piled up in front of churches as hard-working volunteers worked to bring them inside.
That’s when the Red Cross showed up, Nelms alleges in the Facebook video that has received almost 6 million views as of this writing.
The Red Cross was physically taking the donations from the doorsteps of these churches and putting them into their trucks. Red Cross came to the church with volunteers and began to steal the donations…from people who literally had nothing…’
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