[PRESSTV] British charity Oxfam has reportedly announced that it will reduce some of its overseas aid programs and lay off a number of staff due to a drop in funding after the Haiti sex scandal.The charity has faced a public backlash over claims that its staff exploited female victims in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010. After the sex scandal emerged, thousands of people stopped making regular donations and the UK government suspended its funding to the charity.
According to an internal document seen by British paper The Guardian on Friday, Oxfam has told staff it will urgently need to make savings of about 21 million dollars a year and scale back the number of its aid projects abroad.
The seven-page document, which is marked confidential, said the aid organization would "have to save substantial amounts of money to put [us] on a more stable and sustainable footing."
The document circulated by the chief executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring, also said, "It is clear ... that the size of our programs will be substantially reduced for this year and next ... this means making tough choices," adding that job losses were "inevitable."