ABSTRACT
Phase I — Situation You are a member of the US diplomatic corps that works with Haiti. It is 2010, and there has just been a massive earthquake in Haiti that has absolutely decimated the entire population and the country (Vu, 2010). Many non-profit organizations have volunteered to assist with the crisis since, Haiti is ill-prepared to contend with such a problem that has impacted so many areas in the country (Rossouw, 2010). One such non-profit organization that has come into Haiti is the New Life Children’s Refuge (NLCR) (New Life Children’s Refuge, 2010). The group’s mission statement is as follows:
Rescue Haitian orphans abandoned on the streets, makeshift hospitals or from collapsed orphanages in Port au Prince and surrounding areas, and bring them to New Life Children’s Refuge in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. (New Life Children’s Refuge, 2010)
The group’s mission statement is clear that it ultimately wants the orphans to be adopted by families (New Life Children’s Refuge, 2010). You have been notified
that there is a group of ten missionaries that are with the NLCR that have been arrested crossing the Dominican Republic border with 33 children from Haiti (Vu, 2010). The NLCR is not registered in the United States as a non-profit organization, nor is it registered as an adoption agency in the United States or internationally (Thompson, 2010). The members of the NLCR are currently being held by the Dominican Republic authorities on child trafficking charges (Vu, 2010). The missionaries do not have any paperwork or authorization for transporting the children. The missionaries claim that they were taking the children to a hotel that had been converted to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic (Vu, 2010). Several of the children that were transported are reported to have been traumatized by the experience (SOS Children’s Villages, 2010). One of the children had to be taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention (SOS Children’s Villages, 2010). This apparently was the second time that the group had been stopped; previously, they attempted to take 40 children to the Dominican Republic but were stopped by a police officer (Vu, 2010). This situation contends with alleged criminal activity, so what are the issues that the non-profit organization should be asking itself currently?
