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In Cambodia's booming orphanage industry, children have become money-making tourist attractions, and it is suspected that sexual abuse is common in residential centres where there are few checks to identify child abusers among foreign volunteers. While research demonstrates that children in orphanages and residential care institutions suffer developmental delays, well-intentioned foreign volunteers are often unaware. A new survey conducted in Siem Reap, Cambodia found that 70% of potential volunteers at Cambodian orphanages believed that…
This People & Power documentary from Al Jazeera investigates the orphanage tourism industry in Cambodia.
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.