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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,...
Many of the children in Cambodia's orphanages have at least one living parent, who sent them away in the hope that they can get a better education, lift them...
Orphanage tourism in Cambodia is big business - with directors profiting from unwitting foreigners. Find out what Leong Wai Kit discovered in this... | Cambodia, foreigner
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.
Sutherland, from Friends International, says reducing the demand from the west is critical to ending orphanages in places like Cambodia. “Most tourists, donors and volunteers are simply unaware of the facts, of the scale of the exploitation that is happening,” Sutherland said.
5 lut 2014 · Meet Cambodia's Orphanage Tourism Queen (part two) Nell Alcantara. 73 subscribers. Sunrise Children's Villages is one of the "must-stop" orphanages on the itinerary of a "voluntourist'...
One such tourism form – orphanage tourism – sees tourists from wealthier, predominantly Western, nations visiting residential care centres in ‘developing’ nations to visit, volunteer at, or make donations to poor children.
