Have we told you lately that the World Health Organization is the worst?
The WHO has a budget of nearly $7 billion for next year alone.
And after reading this, I can see how they're able to scrape together all that sweet cheddar:
Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization's efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency's history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak.
If a top doctor with WHO — in this case, Dr. Gaya Gamhewage — travels to a country like the Congo, you know it's a big deal. This is a dangerous, far-flung place, not easy to get to and even less pleasant to be in. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
So you think if someone rolls up there as part of an official payout mission, they're going to be rolling up with the moolah, too:
But holy cow, the payments were so little that WHO probably didn't even have to declare it on its Swiss tax returns:
[T]he WHO has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by officials working to stop Ebola. That amount per victim is less than a single day's expenses for some U.N. officials working in the Congolese capital — and $19 more than what Gamhewage received per day during her three-day visit — according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Two Hundred. And Fifty. Dollars.
That amount of money "covers typical living expenses for less than four months in a country where, the WHO documents noted, many people survive on less than $2.15 a day," the AP pointed out.
How thoughtful of them: Less than four months! If they'd given them any more money then these poor people just wouldn't have known what to do with themselves.
But wait, wait, it gets worse: The payments "didn't come freely." There were strings attached.
To receive the cash, they were required to complete training courses intended to help them start "income-generating activities." The payments appear to try to circumvent the U.N.'s stated policy that it doesn't pay reparations by including the money in what it calls a "complete package" of support.
So basically the process here is: Women get sexually assaulted by WHO workers ---> WHO gives them a pathetic sum as compensation ---> but makes them work for it first.
Do I have that right?
Meanwhile, "many Congolese women who were sexually abused have still received nothing," with the WHO claiming they were "impossible to locate."
Heckuva job, World Health Organization! You sure earned the name!
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