Graham
Brewster
Managing
Director
World
Housing
7th
August 2015
Dear Graham Brewster
Peter Dupuis
Sid Landolt
Melissa Orozco
Bruce MacDonald
Kate de Wolf
Hal Devine
Harry Wang
Jeffrey Stone
Robert Foord
Tony Allard
I am
writing to you regarding “the gifting and construction of garbage
dump homes” in Cambodia by ‘World Housing’, in partnership with Scott
Neeson and the Cambodian Children’s Fund.
The
following is to be found on the World Housing website. The italics are mine.
World
Housing CCC Inc’s community purpose, as outlined in our founding corporate
articles, is to provide homes and other forms of shelter to disadvantaged
families, and promote community development.
Specifically the homes we provide are for “dump-dweller” families living
around Third World garbage dumps and often deriving their income from garbage
picking.
World
Housing is the world’s first “one-for-one” real estate gifting model. For every home
sold at one of our certified World Housing condominium projects, the developer
partner provides the funding for the construction of a home in a Third World
garbage dump community overseen by one of our
NGO-Builder Partners; this home is then gifted to a qualified
deserving family living in a Third World garbage dump community. We
connect people and organizations: developers, real estate buyers, NGOs,
builders and qualified home recipients….
sincerely
Graham
Brewster
Managing
Director
June
30, 2014
The
word ‘gifted’ is significant here.
On the
World Housing website is to be found the following question and answer.
(italics mine)
Question: How
do buyers contribute to the gifting and construction of garbage dump homes ?
Answer: Buyers play the most
important role: they “vote with their wallets.” By purchasing a home at a World
Housing project, they make a statement about their desire to help.
This
reads well. World Housing’s objectives seem
to be noble but it is difficult to understanding precisely what the word
‘gifting’ means in a Cambodian context.
Questions:
Are
developers who purchase “a home at a World Housing project” ‘gifting’ a house
to a family whose members work in (or used to work in) the Phnom Penh rubbish
dump?
Or:
Are
companies “purchasing a home at a World Housing project” merely expressing
‘their desire to help.”
Expressing
a desire to help put a poor family into a house of their own and actually ‘gifting’
them a house are two quite different things.
The
answer to the question of what ‘gifting’ actually means, in practice, seems to
be found on the Cambodian Children’s Fund website. Dated 12th Nov
2013, the headline reads:
“World Housing Gifts New Home to CCF Families”
This
seems clear. A gift is something given. A gift is not something rented. Homes
are being given to CCF families by World Housng. This impression is borne out
by what follows. The italics are mine:
“Five families received brand-new homes this
week. Soon, hundreds of people in the Steung Meanchey community will have
similar places to call their own. The sturdily built homes come with a
downstairs kitchen, access to a restroom and provides a secure, healthy place
for families to live. Such things were once unattainable.
The
life-changing homes were made possible by World Housing, a social venture
inspired by the TOMS Shoes one-for-one model. For every condominium sold by a real estate
partner of Canada-based World Housing, they’ll
provide a home for an impoverished family at their project sites in the
Philippines, Mexico and Cambodia. As production ramps up in Cambodia, more
than 20 homes will be constructed monthly for families at Cambodian Children’s
Fund”
The
full story is to be found at:
https://www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/recent-news-list/381-world-housing-gifts-new-homes-to-ccf-families.html
I
think that most readers of both the CCF and World Housing websites could be
forgiven for believing that World Housing was giving homes to “hundreds of
people in the Steung Meanchey community”; homes that these impoverished
families can “call their own.”
There
is a problem here, however.
Whilst
World Housing is ‘gifting’ homes to the Cambodian Children’s Fund, Scott Neeson
is not ‘gifting’ them to “hundreds of people in the Steung Meanchey community”.
No, he is renting the ‘gifted’ houses to families on land owned by CCF.
Another Q & A to be found on the World Housing website reads:
Question: Is
World Housing a charity or non-profit organization ?
Answer: World Housing is
Canada’s first Community Contribution Company, a registered social enterprise
that enables sustainable social change through a for-profit enterprise.
Questions:
Is
World Housing aware that Scott Neeson is renting the homes ‘gifted’ by World
Housing to CCF to impoverished families living in Steung Meanchey?
If
World Housing is aware that CCF is
renting these houses, built on CCF-owned land, in what way does World Housing
believe that the ‘gifting’ of these houses is creating
“a legacy of sustainable change in the communities”?
I am referring here to the following description of World Housing’s aims
and objectives is to be found on your website. The italics are mine.
“Making
a worldwide social venture come to life takes a team of leaders committed to
social change. World Housing has assembled a team of international business and
thought leaders who have made a personal investment to ensure that World
Housing creates a legacy of sustainable change in the communities it touches.”
‘Sustainable
change in communities’ may well be what many of you ‘thought leaders’ believe
to be taking place, but is it?
It
seems to me, but please correct me if I am wrong, that the reality of the World
Housing program, at least as far as it relates to Cambodia, is this:
- Developers
in Canada and elsewhere want to appear to be concerned about the plight of poor
people in 3rd world countries and are prepared to pay $50,000 to
World Housing to become a member.
- Real
estate agents Peter Dupuis and Sid Landolt benefit, via their commissions, from
every condo built under the World Housing umbrella. Neither Peter nor Sid has
to contribute $1 to the construction of World Housing homes in Cambodia but
benefit from having their reputations as being benevolent and caring enhanced.
Scott
Neeson does not have to pay $1 to construct the World Housing homes in Steung
Meanchey. World Housing has ‘gifted’ them to CCF and the houses are erected on
land owned by the Cambodian Children’s Fund.
CCF
then rents these ‘gifted houses’ to impoverished Cambodian families and makes a
profit. It is not a huge profit but it is a profit.
Given
that the ‘gifted’ World Housing houses have been built on land owned by CCF (‘gifted’
to CCF by sponsors and donors) the families that rent these houses can never
own them (call them their own.) They will forever be dependent on the good will
of Scott Neeson and obliged to abide by his rules and regulations. These rules
and regulations are strict. They include the prohibition of members of the
family visiting or staying in the houses.
Do
you, the recipients of this letter, believe that this the best, or most
appropriate way, to generate ‘sustainable change’ within impoverished Cambodian
communities? Or has World Housing, in conjunction with the sponsors and donors
who bought the land for CCF, given Scott Neeson carte blanche to create a
community that is totally dependent on him?
Have
any of you ‘thought leaders’ seen a copy of the contract that CCF enters into
with families who rent the gifted World Housing homes?
Are
you aware that the World Housing homes ‘gifted’ to Scott Neeson re only
available to be rented by families that have children taking part in one of
CCF’s ‘programs’?
Are you aware that each
of these CCF children generates $4,000 in income each year for the Cambodian
Children’s Fund – in a country in which the per capita income is a little more
than $1,000 a year. This is not a groundless assertion, as would become
apparent if you were to look back through some old blog entries. The following
may be a good place to start:
http://cambodia440.blogspot.com/2015/02/96-message-for-heather-graham-re.html
Is World Housing
assisting in the development of a strong and self-sufficient Cambodian
community in Steung Meanchey or is it giving Scott Neeson both free housing and
philanthropic credibility in an experiment in social engineering in which he
calls all of the shots?
Are
developers who pay their $50,000 to join World Housing being beguiled into
believing that they are buying homes for poor people when in fact they are buying
homes to very rich individuals like Scott Neeson, who then rents these ‘gifted’
homes to very poor people and locks them out if they get behind in their rent?
Yes, CCF locks out tenants who get as little as $12.50 behind in their rent.
Visit:
And
view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve280RWEV5w
Now, let’s look again at the Q & A quoted earlier:
Question: How
do buyers contribute to the gifting and construction of garbage dump homes ?
Answer: Buyers play the most
important role: they “vote with their wallets.” By purchasing a home at a World
Housing project, they make a statement about their desire to help.
Has the word ‘gifting’ been used in a deliberately vague way so as to
deceive readers (and more particularly developers) into believing that homes
are being ‘gifted’ to poor families when in fact they are being ‘gifted’ to Scott
Neeson’s Cambodian Children’s? Or is this an honest mistake made by whoever
wrote the text for the World Housing website?
If the latter be the case, can we expect that World Housing will, on its
website, make it clear that it is not ‘gifting’ homes to impoverished families
but ‘gifting’ them to organizations such
as Neeson’s CCF – NGOs which remain free to rent these ‘gifted’ homes to
impoverished Cambodians?
In an age in which so
much information can be accessed online in a matter of seconds, are you ‘thought
leaders’ – collectively and individually – sure that World Housing’s
association with Scott Neeson is not one that you will, in time, regret. If you
have even a shadow of a doubt, you need to ask Scott Neeson a few questions and
bear in mind that Scott’s skill lies in marketing and that his instinct will be
to provide you with the answers that he believes you want/need to hear.
The
questions contained in the following blog entry are ones that all of you might
like to ask of Scott Neeson:
best
wishes
James
Ricketson
It will come as no surprise to learn that Scott Neeson was one of the founders of World Housing. Neat trick, eh! Found a social enterprise that provides you with free housing. Got to give it to Scottie boy. He's a clever mother-fucker. Go Scott.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything Scott Neeson is involved in that is not a scam?
DeleteA scam that has put a whole lot of families in decent homes after living the rest of their lives in hovels! Get real man. Would you rather they lived in hovels?
DeleteDoing this from memory so if someone has more accurate information, please share. These 'houses' are 120 sq. ft. (think the size of your bathroom). World Housing pays Neeson $2500/ home. They have no toilets or running water.
ReplyDeleteIf they are gifted to the people, can they be moved off from the property that Neeson leases (they are on stilts)?
What is the smallest piece of land that a Cambodian person could own?
The figure I've heard to actually build one of these pre-fab homes is $900 so Neeson is already making a profit. Then theres the question of who owns the physical structures? The families or CCF? If CCF owns them the families cant shift them to another location. The only way to find out who owns the houses themselves would be to look at the contracts the families sign with CCF? Or do they sign contracts with World Housing?
DeleteAnyone know?
I hear on the grapevine that Neeson has taken another ‘holiday’. It wouldn’t surprise me at all in the CCF board is slowly pushing him out now that he has become a liability. CCF could be a good NGO if it was run properly and not by a guy who wants more than anything else to be famous. Neeson knows of the crimes he has committed removing so many children from their families to create a Stolen Generation and it will haunt him for the rest of his life even if he does wind up with millions of dollars. Which he will when CCF bites the dust. I hope on his latest holiday he is thinking about his exit plan. Firstly he should hand over all the money he has made and got hidden in real estate and here and there. He should give it to all the families whose kids he has stolen. Divide it up between them and close the kids jails he has built. Then he should pack his bags and leave Cambodia forever.
ReplyDeleteHere is one of Neeson's FaceBook 'friends':
DeleteGlen A. Michel
Managing Director & Co-Owner at Advanced Pension Strategies
Coincidence???
Another one of the Board members is now also on the CCF dole starting in 2014.
Anonymous 2.58 - get off the marijuana - Neeson will never be pushed from CCF - he is the Founder and the centre of its existence. Why would the Board push him out and then face the fact that funding will also drop because Neeson is the one who travels around raising the funds. I think you need to stop basing comments on your personal hopes and not facts.
DeleteThanks James of taking up the issues you do. Leep asking questions that the
ReplyDeleteNGO MAFIA doesn't dare to answer.
It seems that the 5000 NGO quoted by the Cambodian Government are all in the same Club: the OMERTA Club !
I feel sad for the Khmer Children that are at the MERCY of these
western scammers like Scott Neeson and even if they don't end up in a locked up place like an ORPHANAGE-NOT but in a western managed PRESCHOOL they get brainwashed by western values, religion etc. that essentially separates them from the kids that live ordinary lifes in Cambodia.
Today I passed by such a western run school lead by an australian woman and the sound that reached the street was enough evidence of what goes on inside. American Childrens Songs, in English of course for the pre-school kids to sing.
WTF ?
It is my firm believe that not a single Khmer kid should be at the mercy
of Western people (often without any professional qualification) running
shady Charity Businesses in Cambodia.
The NGO Law could change a bit of that but with Human Rights (NOT) Orgs.
like Licado (which denies any right of a fair trial to David Fletcher)
and Adhoc this will unlikely change anytime, soon.
Mr James fucking Ricketson you are such a retard you dont even realize that your blog has become a witch hunt after Scott Neeson in the way you complained before about Hogan and Neeson making a witch hunt after your pedofile firend Dsvid Fletchwr
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 3;22, Are you suggesting that someone who has taken over 700 children from their families, in spite of the overwhelming evidence that doing so causes irreparable, psychological, emotional and developmental harm, should not be pursued?
DeleteDear Anonymous 3.22
DeleteNot a witch hunt. Just questions asked of Scott that he refuses to answer. Then questions asked of Alan Lemon and Lily Kanter - which both refused to answer. Then questions for the CCF board, with the same result - silence.
CCF is, in my estimation now, a house of cards built on spin.
This latest evidence of a scam does not require much in the way of investigative journalism. All that is required is to quote what Neeson, CCF and World Housing have written online and do some simple maths.
If anyone can look at the relevant websites and do the maths and come up with a logical explanation of how this is not a huge scam, I would be happy to read it and to have it shared with the readers of this blog - even if it makes me look foolish.
I have just received an interesting phone call from a contact within CCF.
ReplyDeleteI have received inside information from this person before and it has generally proven to be reliable and borne out by things that have actually subsequently happened – like Scott flying to Perth for a photo opportunity with the Dalai Lama.
My new information is as follows:
CCF charges World Housing $2,800 per house.
Each house costs around $1000 to manufacture in Cambodia.
So, Scott Neeson (or CCF, take your pick) is pocketing $1,800 for every house that has been ‘gifted’ to a poor Cambodian family. This is significantly more than the average Cambodian family earns in a year.
CCF and World Housing have erected around 300 houses so far.
Some simple maths reveals that:
World Housing has given Scott Neeson $840,000 to erected around 300 houses. $540,000 of this money has found its way directly into CCF coffers.
So, CCF has made half a million dollars in profits from erecting 300 houses.
That’s the bad news.
In theory, the good news should be that 300 families now have a home they can call their own. In reality, not one of these families has a home they can call their own. 300 families are now tenants in homes owned by CCF. So even the good news is bad news!
So, in Cambodia at least, World Housing has invested $840,000 and not one Cambodian family has a home it can call its own.
There is a word for this. It is ‘scam’’.
The one point my informant was not 100% sure of was whether or not the people at World Housing were aware of this scam.
If they were not aware of it yesterday, they are aware of it today. It will be interesting to see how they respond to my open letter.
I wonder also if any of the developers who kicked $50,000 into the World Housing slush fund and then paid $2,800 per house are aware that their money has not resulted in any impoverished family being provided with a home.
It is the job of the World Housing board and those who are touting it online to know what is happening to the money being raised to (in Theory) build houses for poor people. If they don't know what is going on, they should not be on the board and they should not be touting World Housing online. Whichever way you look at this Neeson/World Housing marriage, it is one made in hell, not heaven.
DeleteThis is a scam. A SCAM. S-C-A-M.
Yet again the poor people of Cambodia are being exploited by rich people from the first world.
And there I was, thinking World Housing were the 'good guys'! Ae there any 'good guys'?
ReplyDeleteThere are not many good guys; only 50 shades of bad. Welcome to Cambodia, Kingdom of Wonder.
DeleteAs I read through the relevant sections of the World Housing and Cambodian Children's Fund website I could feel the anger rising inside me. There is no question but that both World Housing and CCF have deliberately set out to create the impression that houses gifted by developers wind up being owned by poor 'dump dwellers'. This is bad enough. What is worse is that these statements are couched in language that would give both World Housing and CCF an out if this ever went to court. And it should go to court. Or, at the very least, WOrld Housing should be reported to the relevant Canadian authorities for have perpetuated a fraud - unless, that is, the developers who paid for these homes knew (were told) that they were being gifted to Scott Neeson; not to poor families. Why am I reading about this in a bog and not on the front page of the Vancouver Sun or some other Canadian newspaper?
ReplyDeleteThis is an outrage. World Housing is a disgrace and should be closed down if it is going to give in excess of half a million dollars of developers money to Scott Neeson in the form of free houses.
Don't ask me how I know. I just do.
ReplyDeleteWorld Housing has known all along that Scott Neeson was not giving houses to poor families; that he was keeping the houses for himself. Half a million dollars worth.
World Housing will not deny this as key figures within the organisation know how much evidence there is readily available if it is needed to verity that what I am saying is true.
World Housing is going to have to employ a top notch spin doctor to explain this scam away. ANd a PR firm that specialises in 'damage control'. It's their fault for believing that a team made up of two real estate agents and a Hollywood marketing person really did intend to help solve world poverty!
And pigs might fly!
In my country (USA) scams like those orchestrated by Scott Neeson would be uncovered by law enforcement officials or by investigative media personnel. I wonder whether this is not done in Cambodia due to ignorance and/or incompetence or because the enormous funds received by Neeson are used to bribe those who should be taking action against him.
ReplyDeleteScott Neeson used to market Hollywood movies before he pissed off so many people that he had to leave town. This was not a problem for Neeson. He knew his stuff. The same principles that apply to marketing movies apply to the marketing of children. Children are much easier in fact because everyone has a soft spot for a smiling innocent child with doe like eyes looking up into the camera. “This little girl works in a rubbish dump! That is outrageous. And Scott Neeson is saving kids like this? Hand me my cheque book.”
ReplyDeleteOnce he realized how easy it was there was no stopping Neeson. The more kids he had the money he made but this particular marketing model only worked for as long as the people he was selling his product to (sponsors and donors) believed that Saint Scott was the only person who could rescue these cute little kiddies. The fact that these cute kids had mums and dads was kinda awkward so best not to mention them. Make it seem as though the mums and dads don’t give a shit about their kids, that they have drinking problems, anything to justify taking the kids from their families and putting them in an orphanage. And then ask kind hearted people to sponsor these kids. But what about the kids parents? Oh, just give them a bit of rice and call it an outreach program or something. No one cares about the parents. It’s the little kiddies that bring in the bucks. Not the families. There’s no money in helping families. Who gives a shit. And now I hear that Neeson is writing a book about his life. I wonder who will get to play Neeson in the movie?
It looks as though this World Housing scam is applying the same marketing techniques used by Neeson. Appeal to the humanitarian instincts of rich developers and/or give them an opportunity to appease their consciences by believing that by paying $50,000 to get the World Housing stamp of approval they are helping a poor family get a home to live in. No, they are ‘gifting’ a house to Scott Neeson that the poor family gets to rent from Neeson. The gall of this man is unbelievable. And he is supported by an air-head actress like Heather Graham, who also sits on the Cambodian Children’s Fund board and mega-rich Hollywood people like Roland Emerich and Sumner Redstone. This has got to be the charity scam of the century.
I just read this on the World Housing website. Made me want to puke.
ReplyDelete"World Housing is a social venture that measures profit through social change rather than financial gain. We measure our success by the transformation achieved in the communities we assist through our building and gifting of homes to the most deserving people on earth."
How can World Housing use 3rd world poverty to scam developers into buying houses for Scott Neeson? Unbelievable!
Dear Graham Brewster
ReplyDeletePeter Dupuis
Sid Landolt
Melissa Orozco
Bruce MacDonald
Kate de Wolf
Hal Devine
Harry Wang
Jeffrey Stone
Robert Foord
Tony Allard
The following is to be found on the World Housing website.
“World Housing is Canada’s first Community Contribution Company (CCC), a registered social enterprise that enables sustainable social change through a for-profit enterprise. By corporate charter, all of World Housing’s profits are retained in the company’s balance sheet and reinvested to expand our impact around the globe.”
Could you please provide me with (a) a copy of World Housing’s ‘corporate charter’ and (b) a copy of the ‘the company’s balance sheet’.
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
World Housing should be reported to the Canadian authorities and an investigation conducted into what looks, on the face of it, like serious fraud.
ReplyDeleteAnd this from the World Housing website:
ReplyDelete"World Housing is proud to have Scott Neeson, founder of Cambodia Children’s Fund, as our first NGO-Builder Partner. In November 2013, Scott and his team opened the doors of World Housing’s first micro home building factory in the Steung Meanchey Landfill community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Today Cambodia Children’s Fund housing factory employs local youth and will build and gift more than 40 homes per month to qualified, deserving families that live in the Steung Meanchey Landfill Community."
See for yourself
http://www.worldhousing.ca/how-it-works/
There can be no doubt. World Housing believes that Scott Neeson is giving houses to poor people. If the World Housing board does not know that Neeson is stealing their houses for his own use, what else don't they know. The entire board should resign.
Team Neeson has been very quiet this past few days. Has Neeson called them off or do they, like rats, sense that the ship is sinking and have left the boat befor eit sails into the blue yonder?
ReplyDeleteSo have the Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily. World Housing and CCF scam! What scam? Where? No, sorry, can't see anything worth investigating here :-)
DeleteI have checked the World Housing website, the Cambodian Children's Fund website and CCF's Facebook postings. There is no question. Scott Neeson and World Housing are telling developers in Canada that for every condominium they build through World Housing, a poor family in Cambodia will be given a home they can call their own. I wonder how these developers feel when they discover that they have given a free house to the Cambodian Children's Fund? I wonder if the developers even know that they have bought a house for the Cambodian Children's Fund, which is then rented to the very people they thought they were helping? If I were a developer, I would be PISSED OFF!
ReplyDeleteSCAM. Neeson has both outdone himself this time and hopefully shot himself in the foot at the same time. More than $500,000 of free housing to CCF?You've got to be fucking kidding! Either World housing is in on this SCAM or its board is making up of fucking idiots!
ReplyDelete“Jason Thatcher is an incredible guy….he’s an important part of World Housing… without guys like Jason World Housing would not be possible.”
ReplyDelete”
That’s what this World Housing guy says on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjQk51PZW3U
Is Global Village Housing part of World Housing? Is Jason Thatcher renting houses to poor Cambodians too? I am confused. Mr Thatcher?
And theres another thing on You Tube where Peter Dupuis and Sid Landolt the founders of World Housing say they’re planning to build 30,000 homes by 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjQk51PZW3U
That’s $80 million worth of homes! Whoa! Big bucks. And not one poor family gets to own their home. These guys have sure found a great business model!
Now I get why Neeson gave up his $1 million a year job in Hollywood? Theres mush more money to be made helping poor people in Cambodia.
DeleteKingdom of Wonder!!!!!
World Housing and CCF use a model home designed by me . We help them through their early stages for the one for one home gifting program "as they call it " .. We built around 20 homes together all of which had been gifted .. their idea of charging rents ended our partnering and friendship . we carry on working as a grassroots social enterprise which employs local khmer some former CCF students . As some of you would know . l once volunteered for CCF for over 4years . overall a big learning curve, l have seen the good the bad and the very ugly of the NGO world . Our Global Village Housing is about building and gifting homes to the poorest of the poor without any bullshit . the rest your welcome to visit our website www.globalvillagehousing.com and l welcome any questions in relation our work via our direct email which is located on the website .
Deletel / we at GVH will never be part of renting homes to the worlds poorest people. NO BULL Jason Founder /Designer
Jason, I've checked your site and believe you completely. Bless you for your good work. Effective, efficient energies to help these impoverished people is commendable. Thank you for your work to make the world a better place. Best to you and your group. I will be looking to make a donation to help your cause.
DeleteI have bought a home for a poor family in a remote province in Cambodia and can promise you Jason and Global Housing is the real deal. Global Village Housing really does GIVE (not RENT) houses to poor families. On the trip I went on to see 'my' house built Jason also took along a paramedic who checked out the health of all the people in the small village where the houses were being put up (three) and gave out medicine to sick people and in other ways treated people who needed treatment. Good on you Jason. Your a champion in my eyes
DeleteI have copped some flack from a friend who thinks it was a mistake for me to go public with my revelations about World Housing. “You may be jeopardizing a program that allows poor people to live in decent houses, even if they don’t own them.”
ReplyDeleteWhilst I respect this argument I don’t agree with it. To not reveal what seems to me to be a scam would result in the status quo remaining – namely, homes that World Housing said were being ‘gifted’ to poor families, being ‘gifted’ to the Cambodian Children’s Fund.
If World Housing said, “We are providing free housing so that the Cambodian Children’s Fund can help build a strong community by renting houses to deserving families,” I would not have the problem I have. Both World Housing and CCF would be being honest about their aims and objectives.
My own personal opinion is that strong Cambodian communities should be built by the Cambodian people. Yes, NGOs such as CCF can help but they should not be calling the shots; saying: “This is how your community is going to work. Here are the rules and regulations. If you don’t abide by them you are out.”
This model breeds dependency and is not conducive to the feeling of ownership that is vital for a community: “This is out community and we decide how we want to run it. We welcome input and guidance from those assisting us but do not 2want to be told what to do or how we should live our lives."
You should listen to your friend,Mr Ricketson,but then quiet diplomacy is not your style, is it?
DeleteJames, I agree with you 100%! Any chance the Canadian Press would have interest in this?
DeleteAnonymous 1:42, I think you are the first comment on this issue from Team Neeson. Your thoughts give little insight to the issue though.
So can someone please tell me if this is correct? World Housing tells donors that they are giving a house to the impoverished. World Housing gives the money to build the home to Neeson. They give him $2800, of which he spends $1000 on the 120 sq/ft home with no water or sanitation. Neeson keeps the home and rents to the impoverished provided that they follow Neeson's rules for living there? Looks like quite a tangled web to me.
ReplyDeleteIf this story is true, it appears to be a very obvious case of fraud. Why won't the Cambodia Daily of Phnom Penh Post address this issue? Isn't the obligation of the press to expose such scams? How does the Cambodia Daily of Phnom Penh Post.serve its people? By remaining silent and giving Neeson a free pass on whatever he decides to do?
DeleteI'll state the obvious, but if this is true, all of the Board Members at CCF must be complicit in the scam! NOT one of them stands up to confront this mess? They must be quite a group of quality people on Neeson's board!
ReplyDeleteScambodia! Kingdom of Wonder
DeleteNeed a list of developers and realtors that participate in this project with World Housing, to notify them of the scam that they are perpetrating on their customers. Cut off the funds, eliminate the SCAM!!
ReplyDeleteI already have a list of developers in Vancouver to whom I will be writing soon if World Housing does not answer my questions.
DeleteI will also be writing to Maura McLaren, Executive Director & CEO or the Real Estate Institute of Canada recommending that before entering into any form of agreement with World Housing regarding the ‘gifting’ of homes to impoverished Cambodian families, that developers and real estate agents in Canada acquaint themselves with what World Housing is are actually doing, as opposed to what it claims to be doing – namely ‘gifting’ homes to Scott Neeson’s Cambodian Children’s Fund.
Which part of the word 'gift' don't you understand, Scott Neeson?
ReplyDeleteThe same question applies for the individual members of the Cambodian Children's Fund board and the board of World Housing. “Which part of the word 'gift' don't you understand?”
DeleteHe doesn't understand 'gift' Anonymous 11:37. He also doesn't understand 'helping' children. He thinks it means taking them from their families which causes irreparable: psychological, emotional and developmental harm.
ReplyDeleteI think his failure to graduate from high school has left him with some language and understanding issues.
Additional names of CCF employees that might be helpful with financial, construction or purchasing information relating to the housing;
ReplyDeleteSrey Pov Soun Leadership Assistant at Cambodian Children's Fund
Hakuna Matata Teacher at Cambodian Children's Fund
Janet Tartaglia Leadership Program Manager.at Cambodian Children's Fund
Randa Seang Works at Cambodian Children's Fund
Jelly Ja Houy Works at Cambodian Children's Fund
Heang Chhengsong Works at Cambodian Children's Fund
Thy Na Kraft Secretary at Cambodian Children's Fund
Toch Sinaren Works at Cambodian Children's Fund
Somalay Chheang Procurement Officer at Cambodian Children's Fund
Neng Mos Teacher Team Leader (TTL) at Cambodian Children's Fund
CCF and world housing need to check out the meaning of another word. "CORRUPT".
ReplyDelete“having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain”
Poor Cambodia. Another lot of con artists come and say, "We are here to help." The Cambodians smile and nod. What they learn later is that con artists like CCF and World Housing came to help themselves!!!!
DeleteWhat a relief NOT to have Team Neeson here with their personal abuse. I wonder why? Is it because this scam is such an obvious one that even a 'fucktard' can spot it with his eyes closed?
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteScott Neeson has surpassed himself this time. The arrogance of the man! To think that he would be able to get away with a scam such as this! I wonder if the developers in Canada that he has conned will ask for their houses back?