Cambodia’s Scam Orphanages

Poypiti Amatatham and Thomas Fuller - New York Times

This video from the New York Times shines a light on the orphanage tourism industry in Cambodia. "Orphanages are part of the tourist circuit," says reporterThomas Fuller. "Misery tourism has created a perverse incentive forcing children to look sad and pathetic."

We would do whatever it takes to make donors pity us. They told me to make sure that my face looked sad.