NGN’s Statistical Achievements
Scott Rosefield2019-09-20T09:18:11-07:00
NGN Statistics from February 2007 to August 2019
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09, 2019
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09, 2019
18 Young Girls rescued!!
Scott Rosefield2019-09-09T09:54:08-07:00
NGN has assisted the Nepali police and the Government of Nepal in the rescue of 18 girls between the ages of 6 and 18 who had been working illegally in the craft industry. They were not attending school and were being used as child labor.
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09, 2019
We Aren’t Just Vehicles for your Guilt and Privilege”: A View from Nepal (Part One)
Scott Rosefield2019-09-04T07:31:21-07:00
This is a guest post from Rishi Bhandari, a Nepali who grew up surrounded by international volunteers.
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08, 2019
The dark side of ‘voluntourism’ causes orphanage numbers to boom in developing countries
Scott Rosefield2019-08-23T07:17:40-07:00
According to Save the Children Australia, popular voluntourism destinations for Australians such as Bali, Thailand and Cambodia have seen the number of orphanages increase by up to 500 per cent since the trend began.
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08, 2019
Head of Bal Mandir, nation’s oldest non-profit for children, arrested on charges of child trafficking
Scott Rosefield2019-08-20T07:13:12-07:00
The director of the organisation has been accused of abetting a British national in unlawfully procuring a Nepali child and assisting in obtaining fraudulent documents to claim the baby.
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08, 2019
Voluntourism is unsustainable form of activism
Scott Rosefield2019-08-14T07:13:00-07:00
In middle school, I remember hearing about the local church visiting a rural town in Mexico with a group of volunteers for a week to build houses. At the time, I was impressed. Not only did I not know how to find these sort of opportunities on my own, but I remember thinking how noble it was to put yourself outside your comfort zone in such a productive way.
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07, 2019
Orphanage ‘recruited’ kids to get donations
Scott Rosefield2019-07-30T07:36:07-07:00
As a child, Teresia was forced to work at a Kenyan orphanage, where well-meaning donors and tourists paid to visit with the children.
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07, 2019
We Need Your Help!
Scott Rosefield2019-07-18T07:24:45-07:00
At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday morning we received an urgent phone call for a rescue of 12 children from an illegal orphanage. The man holding the children escaped a few days earlier leaving the children without enough food.
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06, 2019
Summer 2019 Snapshots
Scott Rosefield2019-07-24T08:46:16-07:00
Read the latest dispatch from Nepal here!
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05, 2019
Why Funding for Orphanages is Harming the Children it Aims to Help
Scott Rosefield2019-05-23T09:16:44-07:00
Despite powerful evidence of the negative impact of orphanage care, private donors continue to provide large amounts of funding to orphanages through donations, volunteer tourism, mission trips and other forms of fundraising – adding to the pull factors drawing more vulnerable children into institutional care and away from family or community care.