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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Why We Need to End the Era of Orphanages

I watched this video by Tara Winkler speaking in the TEDxSydney, and to my surprise, this is what is going on in orphanages in this century.

Many times I felt like I couldn't differentiate what is true and what is fake anymore. How can orphanages who are meant to provide orphans a shelter and education until they are big enough to survive on their own, be manipulated into crimes like misuse of funds and physical/sexual abuse?

Family members are separated because they are misguided into believing that sending their children to orphanages will be more secured, when the reality is that it is causing them to face worse situations other than poverty.

This video is really an eye-opener for me, whether being a volunteer in doing helping the orphans is a right thing, or to do research carefully whether our help is really helping them, or that we are just contributing to their misfortunes.



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