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Orphanage tourism [ edit ] Whilst there are approximately over half a million orphans in the country, only 1% of Cambodian orphans live in orphanages with most parentless children cared for by their extended family or community. [ 24 ]
There are 12,000 children who live in orphanages in Cambodia, but only 1 in 5 children are actually orphans. Some have been exploited and used in an industry called orphanage tourism,...
This thesis explores orphanage tourism within the context of Cambodia, adopting a critical geography approach to investigate the intricate and contentious aspects of tourism within this space.
3 wrz 2017 · When 19-year-old Australian Tara Winkler travelled to Cambodia more than a decade ago, all she wanted to do was help the poor orphans of an impoverished country. The Bondi native established her own charity, The Cambodian Children’s Trust, as a home to save the children.
31 mar 2023 · Carpenter takes her reader through the sociopolitical history of Cambodia to show where and how the orphanage culture grew and why children were left there. In doing so, she looks at different meanings of being an orphan that had existed in Cambodia across time.
15 wrz 2019 · Tourists volunteering in Cambodian orphanages may be unwittingly fuelling an industry that exploits children for profit.
27 cze 2012 · Cambodia’s Orphan Business. People & Power goes undercover to reveal how ‘voluntourism’ could be fuelling the exploitation of Cambodian children. Between the 1970s and 1990s, Cambodia was...
