The Orphan Business

They discover many children are not orphans, but have\been taken from impoverished parents. The team discover evidence such children\are mistreated and used by orphanage owners to attract money from donors. The orphan industry is now so lucrative,\children are a valuable commodity.

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The Unreported World team visits Thamel in\Kathmandu, the tourist centre of Nepal, where visitors can book a placement as a\volunteer in an orphanage. There are more than 500 orphanages in the Kathmandu\valley. As well as working as volunteers, every year\foreigners donate millions of pounds to help orphans.

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One former orphanage worker\tells Williams about one orphanage which claims all the 80 children it looks after\are orphans or abandoned. But he claims that when he worked there, 45 of the\children told him that they had parents. In some cases he has met the\parents.