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Nepal's Minister of Women, Children, and Senior Citizen, Parbat Gurung, "interacted with children during Save the Children and Community Information Network’s (CIN) ‘Ministers with Children’ - a campaign designed to elevate the voices of children in COVID-19 discussions, with the aim to make elected representatives and policy-makers more accountable towards the need and challenges of children in Nepal," according to this press release from Save the Children. "As part of the campaign, Save the Children will collaborate with concerned line ministries, and submit insights and evidence…
In this opinion piece for ABC News, Kate van Doore describes her experience of establishing an orphanage in Nepal in 2006, to later learn that the children in the home's care had living relatives and that many had been recruited to the orphanage.
After setting up the orphanage in Nepal, van Doore's organization, Forget Me Not, opened an orphanage in Uganda, which they later moved to close down due to some financial irregularities. "As we talked with the children about our plan of where we might locate a new orphanage and home for them," van Doore said, "they started asking whether they…
This episode of Foreign Correspondent from ABC News in Australia exposes the "ugly truth" that donations and volunteer efforts of Westerners, including Australians, often drive an exploitative orphanage industry in developing countries (in this case, Nepal). "Traffickers deliver the children to illegal orphanages where they're used to attract foreign donors and volunteers," says Foreign Correspondent.
The episode features an interview with Kate van Doore, Australian lawyer and co-founder of Forget Me Not, who started an orphanage in Kathmandu in 2006 before realizing that the children…
This article accompanies an episode of Foreign Correspondent from ABC News Australia entitled 'Paper Orphans.' It tells the story of Devi, a 10-year-old girl in Nepal "forced to pose as an orphan" who is being reunited with her family. "Her story reveals the harm being done by the good intentions of charitable Australians," says the article. The article describes how Devi and her family "are part of the complicated story of child trafficking in Nepal, where children are falsely portrayed as orphans…
"Orphanage tourism turns children into cash-generating commodities subject to the usual economic laws of supply and demand," says this article from New Europe. The article presents UNICEF's data on the number of orphans around the world, including the difference between "orphan" and "double orphan," and notes that "estimates of the number of children living in institutional care (orphanages) range from 2.7-8 million, and of these, at least half, and perhaps as many as 90%, have a living parent, while some have both parents still alive."
The article explores how orphanages are often…
"As many as 880 children, including 249 girls, were rescued from 64 child care homes operating in various districts, without meeting minimum standards prescribed by the existing law," according to this article from the Himalayan Times. The children have since been reunited with their families or "or rehabilitated as per the law,” according to Nepal's Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens. The Central Child Welfare Board, the agency charged with inspecting children's care homes and enforcing the Standards for Operation and Management of Residential Child Care Homes, removes…
The "Central Child Welfare Board, in coordination with the [Nepali] National Centre for Children at Risk, local level representatives and police, rescued a total of 122 children from Sukedhara-based Aishworya Children’s Home being operated without meeting minimum standards prescribed by the existing law," according to this article from the Himalayan Times. According to the article, the children's parents and guardians had been asked to pay a fee to place the children in the home with a promise of "a bright future for their child." However, the facility was found to be incompliant with the…
This BBC 100 Women video features Indira Ranamagar, who ensures Nepali children whose mothers are incarcerated receive safe homes, care and education.
Many children living in Nepalese orphanages are not truly "orphans," but were rather trafficked into orphanages after their families were falsely promised their children would be brought to boarding schools to receive an education. Next Generation Nepal aims to reunite trafficked children with their families.
Wer Waisenkindern in Nepal hilft, kann nichts falsch machen? Stimmt nicht. Viele Spender unterstützen ungewollt die Ausbeuter der Kinder.