How much were the mothers selling their children for in Venezuela due to the IMF inspired sanctions.
Cambodia males billions for the IMF from the opium, the people being killed off. The useless ones are the US and their owners the Jewish Bankers. About time somebody mentioned that, . . . and a few other things.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...en-from-orphanages-exploiting-them-for-profit
The race to rescue Cambodian children from orphanages exploiting them for profit
Despite good intentions, Australians and others from western countries are often propping up Asian orphanages that separate children from families. Now there’s new efforts to tackle some of the consequences of ‘voluntourism’
Much was hidden from the tourists visiting Sinet Chan in her rundown Cambodian orphanage.
When they returned to their hotels, cameras full and best intentions sated, they remained oblivious to the reality of what they had just supported.
Chan, the nine-year-old who sang and danced for them, was being starved. She and the other children hunted and ate mice to survive.
The orphanage’s director beat and raped her, repeatedly, over the course of several years. She was forced to toil in his rice paddies and farms without pay. Clothes and toys donated to her would be taken to the market, sold, and used to line the director’s pockets.
“I thought it might be a good place. Maybe I could have enough food to eat, have a chance to go to school. But actually what I imagined is wrong,” Chan told Guardian Australia. “He dressed us up looking poor so the visitors see us, they feel pity for us, and they donate more,” she said.
“But they don’t really know what was going on inside the orphanage.”
What the tourists saw was a pantomime. A cruel theatre with vulnerable children as its cast.
Chan was one child of an estimated 16,500 living in 406 residential care institutions in Cambodia, according to a
survey released in April by the Cambodian government and the United Nations children’s fund (Unicef).
The vast majority of those children are not orphans. Roughly 80% still have a living parent,
according to Friends International, a child-focused nongovernment organisation operating across south-east Asia.
Between 2005 and 2015, the number of orphanages has increased by 60% in
Cambodia, and half are now concentrated in the tourist destinations of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
The growth in orphanages is completely at odds with a declining poverty rate and falling numbers of genuine orphans over the same decade, according to Friends International’s Cambodian communications coordinator, James Sutherland.