Even as the country is beginning its rebuilding and emergency operations after being ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, Haitians are requesting that those looking to help please not donate to the Red Cross.

As Hurricane Matthew becomes the latest disaster the Red Cross responds to (and fundraise from), local reports say that its staffing on the East Coast is inadequate.

During Haiti's devastating 2011 earthquake, the organization—which takes in much of its annual income during donation drives for major disasters—raised half a billion dollars and built a total of six homes.

Two years after the shelling of the Gaza Strip, just 31 percent of the money pledged for relief has reached recipients. Many have waited for years for their homes to be rebuilt, and spent thousands of their own money in the meantime.