Nepal – Children for Sale

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For every inter-country adoption the orphanage earns $5,000.00 and the government receives $3,000. One third of it’s population makes $1.25 per day. Children are easy to obtain and the orphanages falsify papers and present the children as orphans, meanwhile the parents believe their children are in a children’s home getting an education. Unknowingly the children are processed for foreign adoption. …

Earthquake Orphans: What Nepal can learn from Haiti

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Disaster Following the earthquake in 2010, Westerners flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The “rescue” included the evacuation of children by plane for inter-country adoption and an increase in the number of children placed in orphanages in the following months. The problem that has since emerged is that many of the “orphans” placed in orphanages and sent …