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In this TED Talk, poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his story of growing up in foster care in the UK. His mother had immigrated to the UK from Ethiopia in the late 1960s and became pregnant. At the time, Sissay says, unmarried women who became pregnant were treated as a threat to the community, were separated from their families, and put into mother and baby homes where adoptive parents would be lined up right away. Mothers, at their most vulnerable moments, would be convinced to sign adoption papers releasing their children to the state and the babies would be given up for…
This video by Save the Children highlights key research findings from an assessment on the quality of care in children's homes in Indonesia (2007), jointly published with the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs and UNICEF.
"In Canada, more than 1,000 unmarked graves have been discovered on the grounds of former church-run residential schools, where an estimated 150,000 First Nations children were sent as part of a campaign of forced assimilation for more than a century until 1996.
A historic truth and reconciliation commission was conducted in the 2000s. In 2015 it concluded that the…
"A BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse and evidence of sexual abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan," says the description of this video from BBC News. "For 18 months, reporter Fateh Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani filmed inside 23 schools across the country. Boys as young as five-years-old were routinely chained, shackled and beaten by the sheikhs or religious men in charge of the schools."
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 video segment from the PBS Newshour shines a light on efforts underway in Cambodia to reintegrate children from orphanages back into their families or into family-based care. It features the work of Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) to reintegrate children in Battambang Province, including interviews with a mother and child who have been reunited thanks to CCT's efforts.
The video also explains the connection between tourism and the orphanage industry in Cambodia. "There may be fewer orphans, but orphanages have also become a growth industry," says the video. "There were…
In this interview with ABC News, Kate van Doore talks about the trafficking and exploitation of children in overseas orphanages and how volunteering in and funding orphanages contributes to negative outcomes for children. This interview preceded her testimony to the Australian Government Inquiry on establishing a Modern Slavery Act.
"We know from the research that children growing up in institutional care - no matter how good an orphanage might be - 1 in 3 will experience homelessness, 1 in 5 will gain a criminal record, and 1 in 10 will commit suicide." -…
In 2004, author J.K. Rowling nearly turned the page when she happened upon a photo of a boy with special needs living in an institution in the Czech Republic, featured pictured in a caged bed in the Sunday Times newspaper. Instead, she read on, and eventually founded Lumos, now working to end the instituionalisation of children around the world. In this exclusive interview with Christiane Amanpour of…
In this video, CNN investigates a Kenyan orphanage, which recruited children like Teresia (featured) to gain international funding.
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This People & Power documentary from Al Jazeera investigates the orphanage tourism industry in Cambodia.