This isn't over:
Firoze Manji, the former Africa program director for Amnesty International, said one of the big problems with groups such as WE is that they aren't accountable to the people they claim to serve.
“They are accountable to self-appointed boards,” said Manji, who is originally from Kenya and is now a professor at Carleton University's Institute of African Studies. “The mythology is that they are going to fight poverty. The problem with that proposition, although it sounds very good, is that they don't deal with the causes of impoverishment.”
Ahem:
Apparently WE raised money from 🇨🇦 schoolchildren, to build a school “abroad”. The Canadian kids were shown photos of a school being built, thanks to their donations, so they asked to do a trip to see it. They couldn’t, because the project was a lie and the school wasn’t built🤨 https://t.co/7FUYht4SIE
— Laura Nash 🎙 (@ZeroWasteRadio) July 13, 2020
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WE is active in over 16,000 public and private schools, where kids are recruited to join the “We Movement.” Some of our sources who went on to work for WE began in high school as WE volunteers. One former employee alleged that she was asked to use misleading messages to motivate schoolchildren in a fundraising campaign. Former employees raised concerns about WE’s use of celebrities to connect with kids, and its practice of presenting its co-founder brothers, Craig and Marc Kielburger, as celebrities in their own right. The brothers, who are promoted publicly as inspiring leaders, were said by some to be prone to angry outbursts towards staff in private.
“Marc is a bully, one hundred per cent,” said a former WE director.
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