Donor Says WE Charity Removed Plaque Honoring His Dead Child

  • ‘I feel like my son was the victim of fraud,’ he tells panel
  • Canadian parliament committee probing group’s Kenya operations
Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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A WE Charity donor told a Canadian parliamentary committee that the organization replaced his plaque with that of another donor on a Kenyan school meant to honor his dead son, adding new allegations to a probe that has drawn in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family.

“It feels to me like returning to my son’s grave and finding it broken, open, defiled, and empty,” Reed Cowan told the committee. “I feel like my son was the victim of fraud.”