tour Operators should stop offering trips to orphanages abroad. Better Care Network Netherlands, a coalition of child rights movement as Unicef and Defence For Children, confirms coverage in the AD that visiting tourists the orphans do more harm than good.
Sure 19 Dutch travel agencies offer their clients the possibility to vacation in a children’s home to visit. Excursions provide the orphanages money, but the children are not benefited, says Better Care Network. “It keeps the undesirable system of orphanages in the state.” In Nepal and Cambodia there are more and more orphanages in because there is demand by tourists.
Money disappears
Sometimes the conditions in the homes deliberately bad, so that the tourists to raise money. That then disappears into the pockets of the owners and not to the children.
According to the Better Care Network many of the children lost one or both parents still alive. Worldwide, it would go to 80 percent. The children are at the orphanage sent because their parents, no school fees or food to be able to pay.
Victims of abuse
Nevertheless, they are almost always better off with family, say the child rights movement. In the homes, they run the risk of becoming a victim of abuse and trafficking.
in Addition, is that momentary contact with visitors is not good for the children. It leads to unrest and the supplies are running low, says Defence for Children. “If tourists really something good want to do for orphans, then they can better local support organizations who are committed to foster care. That is better for children than living in an orphanage.”
The ANVR, the umbrella organisation of tour operators, go next week during the Fair members discourage even longer weeshuisbezoeken to offer. Defence for Children holds a workshop for travel companies to make them aware of the disadvantages of such a excursion.
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