I thought this story by Anne Richard of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and published at the Huffington Post yesterday was a bit unseemly. It just struck me that by posting, “Refugees lose Three Inspiring Champions,” the deaths of three leaders of the refugee industry become one more publicity opportunity for the publicity hounds at the IRC.
Over the past year, three Americans who served as leaders of humanitarian causes have succumbed to cancer. They shared an outspoken passion for the cause of aiding refugees and other victims of oppression, war and poverty, but they also shared something rarer: the ability to translate concern into action.
Please go read the article, if it interests you. The three are Ted Kennedy, Ken Bacon and Julia Taft.
Anne Richard is one of the many 6-figure-salaried VPs of the International Rescue Committee one of the largest federal contractors resettling refugees. Here is a post last year in which I mentioned Ms. Richard and the shoddy job IRC affiliates perform in some places where it resettles refugees.
What is that expression again? Doing well by doing good!