Calls Mount to Stop Orphanages Exploiting Poor Children to Lure Money, Tourists
(WorldNews Africa)

Six years after Australian lawyer Kate van Doore set up an orphanage in Nepal she was astounded to find that the children she thought she was helping were not orphans at all. They were `paper orphans` - children given fake identities after being taken from their families and placed in orphanages to attract funding from foreign donors and tourists. `It was devastating to discover these children had been exploited for profit. I was horrified and determined to fix it,` van Doore said. She is now calling for an end to orphanages which she says cause irreparable harm to children and fuel trafficking,...