PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A troubled Haitian orphanage run by a small and apparently well-funded U.S. church has made cosmetic changes in the two months since an Associated Press report exposed squalor and neglect, but has not done enough to address staffing problems and other issues that could put children at risk, according to two people helping the organization improve.
Workers at the Church of Bible Understanding-run orphanage have painted walls and rearranged cribs and bunk beds to ease overcrowding in the months since the Haitian government determined their two homes did not meet the country’s minimum health and safety standards. Members of the religious group, which sells expensive antiques at high-end stores in New York and Los Angeles and uses a portion of the profits to fund the orphanage, say they just received a shipment of bathroom and kitchen tile and a power-washer to attack years of accumulated grime.
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