The orphanage was taking our pictures and sending them to America

IRIN News Service

MONROVIA, 7 August 2007 (IRIN) - Josephine Morgan comes from a poor family in Liberia. Her father, hoping for a better life for his children, agreed to an offer made by the head of an orphanage to take Josephine, her sister and her young brother. But the head of the orphanage is alleged to have taken the children so he could claim he needed an increase in international assistance. Very little of the money he got appears to have been spent on the children. Now, after three years, Josephine has been reunited with her parents. She told IRIN of her ordeal.