J.K Rowling is warning against volunteering at orphanages overseas — here’s why.
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00:00Some orphanages are set up literally to exploit children.
00:03In other words, the children are the bait for foreign donations and a volunteer experience.
00:07And the money is going into the pocket of the people running the orphanages.
00:30The West has, often with the best intentions, funded huge amounts of international funding
00:51going to these so-called orphanages.
00:54And another thing, key pillar, propping up the orphanage business, and I have to call
01:03it that, and I think we'll hear more about why we can call it a business, is people volunteering
01:11and visiting, volunteering in and visiting orphanages.
01:14In other words, voluntourism and orphanage tourism, where you're taken to see children
01:21in an orphanage as part of your travel experience.
01:24Or when you go, believing, which overwhelmingly, of course, people believe they're doing good,
01:31they go and volunteer for a couple of weeks or a month or so.
01:35And often these young people will come away believing they did good, and are appalled
01:41when the facts are laid out in front of them, and they realize that they may have contributed
01:47to the perpetuation of abuse.
01:50Money is going into the pocket of the people running the orphanages.
01:53If all of that money and time and energy were repurposed and put into charities or projects
02:01or charities that are supporting community services or strengthening families, we could
02:07solve this problem within decades.