Why You Should Say No to Orphanage Tourism (And Tell All Tour Companies to Do the Same)
I just posted a new piece on Huffington Post Impact about the orphanage tourism issue in Cambodia. Check it out below:
Why You Should Say No to Orphanage Tourism (And Tell All Tour Companies to Do the Same)
The piece relates to a new website released by Siem Reap residents who are upset at the increase of orphanage tourism, orphanage corruption, and the proliferation of the institutionalization of kids in orphanages (when child rights documents globally & in Cambodia state a focus should be on family-based care as a first resort). The new website is called orphanages.no – please read it, share it, tweet it, etc. This piece comes after Unicef’s report this year that 76% of Cambodian children living in “orphanages” have one or more living parents.
Help stop well-meaning tourists from fueling the separation of children and their families!