About Orphanage Tourism
Do you know what Orphanage Tourism is or why it's harmful to children around the globe?
The short answer is that young children are taken from their homes, in countries like Nepal, and brought to an orphanage in a city. Their parents are either tricked into believing the child is at a fancy boarding school or threatened into remaining complacent and not coming to reclaim their child. The child is then forced to work for the orphanage, making money by working with first-world volunteers and convincing them to donate to the needs of the orphaned children. If the child tells the truth or complains they, along with their family, are punished.
The money that is donated and the time volunteers spend inevitably is given to the owner of the orphanage who becomes wealthy off of these donations while the children starve and suffer until they turn 18 and then are forced out into society with no money, no knowledge of the world, and no benefactors to help them. Childhood is lost and adulthood becomes an almost impossibility. These children suffer poverty stricken lives with emotional issues that follow them throughout the rest of their lives.
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