‘It was like a full-on Caligula orgy’: Oxfam staff hired Haitian prostitutes during 2011 relief effort
Groups of young prostitutes were invited to homes and guest houses paid for by the charity for sex parties, according to one source who claimed to have seen footage
The charity Oxfam admitted Friday that some of its employees engaged in sexual misconduct while doing disaster recovery work in Haiti, after an explosive report in a British newspaper detailed allegations that staff members were throwing “Caligula”-like parties with prostitutes at a guest house the charity had rented for them.
The Times investigation, which was published on Thursday, also detailed allegations that Oxfam’s country director used prostitutes, as part of the raft of misconduct alleged to have occurred while the organisation deployed to help the reeling island nation recover after a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Prostitution is illegal in Haiti; the age of consent is 18.
“This behaviour was totally unacceptable, contrary to our values and the high standards we expect of our staff,” Oxfam, one of Britain’s largest charities, said in a statement on Friday.
This behaviour was totally unacceptable, contrary to our values and the high standards we expect of our staff
The Times report was based off sources familiar with the organisation’s work in Haiti around that time as well as a report summarising an internal Oxfam investigation into the allegations from the time.
