Oxfam’s deputy chief executive resigned on Monday, admitting the charity knew a senior aid worker had been accused of using prostitutes in Africa but still deployed him to Haiti.
Penny Lawrence said that allegations were made about Roland van Hauwermeiren and members of his team using prostitutes when he was Oxfam’s country director in Chad in the 2000s. Mr van Hauwermeiren was reassigned to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, but resigned a year later in a sexual exploitation scandal.
“As programme director at the time, I am ashamed that this happened on my watch and I take full responsibility,” Ms Lawrence said in a statement.
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