Orphanages
Cambodia’s Orphan Business
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
This was sent to me from Al Jazeera, as it’s a topic I write about frequently.
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Reporter Juliana Ruhfus and director Matt Haan travel to Phnom Penh to investigate Cambodia’s orphan business, and end…
Corruption in International Adoption
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Tiny Spark is a new podcast series produced by Amy Costello with support from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The purpose of the podcast is ”Igniting Debate about the Business of Doing Good.” Amy has recently released her first show which looks…
The Case of the Vanishing Orphanage
Monday, September 5th, 2011
This week’s guest post is written by Chris Horst. Chris serves as director of advancement for HOPE International, “a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that alleviates the many dimensions of poverty through the provision of microenterprise development services—microloans, savings…
Hug-an-orphan vacations
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
While I’m on “sabbatical” I’m reposting articles that readers may have missed.
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The growing popularity of short-term international volunteering (voluntourism) has led to the disturbing trend of hug-an-orphan vacations. While visiting a foreign country people take time to
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Does funding orphanages create orphans?
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
While I’m on “sabbatical” I’m reposting some of my previous posts that readers may have missed.
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If the unthinkable were to happen and you and your spouse, or one of your children and their spouse, were to die
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When is an orphan not an orphan?
Friday, March 25th, 2011
I’ve been writing the chapter of my book related to orphanages. In the process I’m compiling all the quotes I have discussing orphanages filled with kids that aren’t actually orphans. Thought I’d share what I have thus far. If you…
Problems with orphanages in Haiti and Cambodia
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Those of you that follow my blog regularly know that I’ve write about the problems with orphanages often. In fact, I’ve written 12 posts on the topic. Just this week two articles came out in the news that…
Orphanage tourism in Cambodia
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Al Jazeera examines the orphanage tourism market in Cambodia. This video examines issues of attachment and abandonment, the question of who financially benefits from program, the question of whether the volunteers have the appropriate skills and background checks, and other…
Hug-an-Orphan Vacations
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
In light of the recently released report Inside the thriving industry of AIDS orphan tourism which discusses the commodification of orphans and the impact this has on the children, and the recent NPR story on the
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The Do’s & Don’ts of Community Outreach
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
The following is a copy of the guest post I was invited to write for Less Conversation More Action, a blog which discusses issues faced by the green meetings industry. Organizations involved with the green meetings industry aim…
