Cambodia’s Scam Orphanages

Poypiti Amatatham and Thomas Fuller - New York Times

This video sheds light on the exploitation of children in orphanages in Cambodia. It describes the ways in which children in orphanages, most of whom have at least one living parent, are recruited into orphanages with the promise of a good education and are then told to “do whatever it takes to make donors pity us” to elicit donations from tourists, from which the orphanage owners profit.