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Community-Based & Policy Level Experts on Orphanage Tourism

Globalsl.org

Globalsl.org shares two hour-long presentations by an individual who works directly with the issue of orphanage tourism in Nepal, and another individual who has coordinated a global, child-protection-focused, inter-agency initiative directly tied to orphanage tourism.

Nepal's bogus orphan trade fuelled by rise in 'voluntourism'

Pete Pattisson - The Guardian

This article, and corresponding 11-minute video, shed light on the rise in orphanage volunteering in Nepal, describing it as “a business model built on a double deception: the exploitation of poor families in rural Nepal and the manipulation of wealthy foreigners.”

Australian Tara Winkler rethinks Cambodia's orphanages

Tara Winkler in an interview with Phil Kafcaloudes for Radio Australia

In this piece from Radio Australia, Phil Kafcaloudes interviews Tara Winkler, an Australian woman who set up an orphanage in Cambodia at the age of 21 and who has since changed her mind about institutional care.