child protection
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Orphanage Tourism is worse than many of us thought
Funding, donating to or visiting orphanages is fraught with real risks of unintended consequences, reputational damage and the funding of those with evil intent. I have just spent two days at a Better Volunteering, Better Care “inter-agency workshop” addressing the question “within the field of child rights how might we redirect the efforts from orphanage “visits” to ethical alternatives that have positive outcomes? The campaign against orphanage volunteering by responsibletravel.com which was sparked by the panel on Responsible Volunteering at WTM in 2012 when the issue was raised again by Michael Horton, Chairman and Founder of Cambodia based ConCERT. Watch the video In Nepal there are 800 registered orphanages holding…