tv Nepals Fake Orphans Al Jazeera May 11, 2020 8:33am-9:01am +03
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a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains the can only project that's what we refuse it was one of the founders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. from the impoverished communities of the cream alliance nepal's children a trafficked in the south. separated from their families boys and girls forced to pose as offices to attract foreign donations. now they've finally hitting home
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but will their parents except the one i want to east follows the journey of the children caught up in the polls a legal open truck. i'm on my way to make a special group of children. this price is quite important in the whole crisis of our free tickets to god that's right. i must say this is a transit high on the outskirts of katmandu all of the children here have been rescued from a legal orphanages and going to do try seeing how many ha they were trafficked from their villages deep in the mountains. with. the next big 10 year old davy is finding her voice again what about that one.
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blue loop that's right. she's mischievous sometimes she cracks jokes she is very very friendly with all the children and she just loves that carefree type of child she is so she's a bit of a character yeah she is is there and that. it's a lot to do that they're ok on this is going to be difficult that they're. a bit lonely as a guard and want to play. despite everything she's been through davy hasn't lost. is a good visit or a good dream of home why i'm strong. more on. want to put that when i. know i can't imagine how these young children between the age of 3 to 9 or 10 how can they be separated you know how can they
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live away for so many years so many months. yet who that's in a few days the children will start the long trip back to their families and that's . the poles mountain regions are is beautiful as they are pole opportunities here are few and. many parents in remote villages want to bet a lot for their children. often age recruiters pri on that desperation. families hand over this side of things on the promise of an education for their kids in kathmandu. but there's a catch. all orphanages might provide some schooling
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the children are falsely presented as all phones to attract foreign sponsors and volunteers. it's an industry exploited by nepalis the driven by western democracy. we're trained in western countries to think a certain way about developing countries and one of those ways is that. often edges are a great way of caring for children who are who would otherwise be living in poverty and that in combination with the good intentions and the funding and the flow of volunteers just drives the separation of church or from their families. the cold hard facts there aren't enough often ends to volunteer with or found this whole industry so the orphans of being invented often say are the friends made by
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their fortunate documentation i mean like. a struggling lawyer kate bedore speaks from 1st hand experience. it's in 2006 she and some friends right used funds to open an orphanage in kathmandu with an initial in types of 6 girls handed over by another institution. personally sponsored the smallest child 4 year old alicia. i felt a huge sense of responsibility towards her but i also wondered where are her parents and why is she off and we just ashamed to parents but dad she was too small to tell us otherwise for more than a decade cases mine time to contact with alicia and the other girls to die there
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reuniting for the 1st time in 5 years. with 2. so i don't. have a mystique to. my family they hit in. one . families earth they are in the room long as i get going but i don't need to in order to rely rather than it. knows now that all of the girls have a living family it's. the eldest me yesterday.
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in 2012 an audit revealed that being trafficked as paper before entering her care. we found fortran death certificates and birth certificates. we found that the children's names had been changed to prevent a surprise family finding them and i thought if they've got family. there's no way that they should be here with us. if they've got family lane we need to find a way to get them apart and. kate's organization forget me nots began the process of tracing the families they
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discovered alicia's parents had been searching for her for years and we got that news i remember crying when her father came to katmandu to see aleisha he hadn't seen her for 6 or 7 years and he kept her chin and he turned her head and she has a scar just here and he touched a skier and then he lifted her forehead and she has a scar tissue from when she was obviously a small child and he said this is this is my child. you can't even if you. did nothing else. was the most important. and the. forget me not has completely changed its mission from off an age to reuniting children with their families. and after living at home with her family for 4 years alicia
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has returned to katmandu to enroll in college and to mentor children like davey. there you. see that if there are no foreign staff volunteers at the transit on the care is in the hands of nepalis they know what needs to be done today institutionalize this country they're on their way there and we just felt that it's more important to have a holy voice in that process than it is to have an honest west nile virus here but at least at the stuff carefully build trust with the children so they can try to find their families. when the children start trusting you justing us the team here then they start telling more stories about the previous orphanage or the family members. under the one is helping to put the pieces back together
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when you are able to reunite a child with her or his family i think is the best thing in the world that's how i feel and my t. . was on that but in bali i'm over i'm certain. many of the children like davey are still traumatized that over there was the head. hurt. the button button go like this video shows the dye that davey and the other children were rescued from the illegal orphanage that had been held on the outskirts of katmandu for more than 6 months at the heart of for better life here
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they were lured the families were tricked but actually the life which they were living in this place. was held. the orphanage owners had filed to secure sponsors meanwhile the children went hungry. boys me you know and i think that anger is good for me because that will help me to talk in front of the government authorities and the people who are supporting orphanages that you are harming children. davey's own arms cowburn our border has been charged with trafficking the children it's common in the orphanage tried for relatives to be used as go betweens calvin are has agreed to speak publicly for the 1st time she climbs she was assured the children would receive quality schooling and accommodation but she filed to rise the alarm when she saw the terrible
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conditions. over so much of what made the natives by their own bad unless a cat and they have not had that nobody by it at all but that life annie my dear give another what that is of a day there are 4 of whom are well on our part in love one day may miss who are they not here couple are says she tried to help the children. w. for a loan and they will but it may so give us here a way if that is the most part is i guess i might of course have torn this up the boy lagaan but once i get into it it's what exactly is that he's had this little sub but to that i am out of how to get him in a place that's a company is out on file but he'll be gyal if she's found guilty. of a moby that are not bad for the athlete who buy on base mother. bizarrely is a point in over north of what the big government say boy about midst of any. good
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law amend it is connected to the ducats. the court proceedings could take years to resolve. at the transit home davie and the other children are preparing to go home to home. you're. just like the kids to be lama is from home. so isn't theirs and ours is organization the himalayan innovative society is partnering with forget me nots to ensure the children arrive home safely. and tell
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when the attack. orphan is in everyone faint. but once they come back to defend me it is a hierarchy of family members so you have to respect each of the family members differently so that it will be difficult for the thai. it's a rough ride. as the plane gets closer the children start recognizing their villages billard.
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away is one of the most impoverished and isolated parts of nepal its capital simak caught sits at almost $3000.00 masons. so high crime banning maids to my kid to see . the kids whites for their families to arrive here is to get. out and keep the can a little yes i want to get them out of that. the world doesn't know yet the past. at 1st the children i'm not sure how to reconnect. but i'm told no more on the local culture is reserved. for come by now a bit of a pussy and i will get a whole new movie because well got her on her mcconaughey plane then the other no
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longer talk about winning but at the end i pulled on and i saw you saying don't i mean this is just the start of a complex process t.v. lamas job isn't just to reunite the families a to help them through the hardships that separated them in the 1st place. scenario neither of the. 2 huge her other. 2 here. going on that. i mean i don't. know if you seem to. hate. this 30 going to care the news or. when you know. we are not only sending the size back to family but we support higher education hours of his not finished college of staff from the air because we have to. watch
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all the v.a. vs the changes in the family and counsel them into just. the 10 year old davy is doing why didn't you as the die ages you got is not the way that it was no no no no some of them at last davies mother kawasaki arrives who are there. who need cash. and it has been like who custom dic tights that she greets the men the 1st. person lay there when they pull up a pool and a beauty of and there are no shadows of a fiction to debut in my ability to you know so tell me what you budgeted no that's atlantic city. yet here i. am with you oh not amrit merrifield davies mom trusted that who daughter was being educated and cared for incrementally now she's learning the reality.
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it's not until you get out here that you really understand just how father traffic is prepared to god to get children so they also need to market in katmandu it also gives a sense of the ocelot ition and remind us that the parents of fighting desperate for opportunities and education for their children. davies mom has lived to last if he would struggle 3 of her 6 children died of illness. are you here and you could happen to look at the tube maggot you knew he had pneumonia or. have night gamma though it seems that i a gallon or any on a half a day is the day that. and the everyday on early on
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that i will. davies journey back to her village is finally i thought. to be great so psystar only it's an awkward region yet and. they've lived very different lives since davy left for katmandu that's known as the davies family will receive financial support to send her and hourly to school in the village social workers will check on them for the next 3 to 5 years if you look at the level that it is maybe i live where they had to go through as i am well aware as her. well again got abnormal she didn't give us a little a am i come up on it on. a presenter yes.
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oh for sure i was out there he had the money than 110 i. go to coupons because i was so i laugh and everything that are north of a girl was there were a flood of yeah. was he. and this city than boise i mean now and they're going on a day. back in katmandu so bobby's a beautiful each tried like alicia don't want another generation to suffer. salable identity. will often is what it all goes off bonding with oh they need to have her on that but a washout goes on and they do it did i'm not on lots of walking the good to the
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mind when it will get out cotton ball family with all of the orphan is well worth the hate the cost of food and stuff and little. i would say please do not volunteer or fund off midges this is not just a problem in the pope but it's actually a global problem and we know it is up to 8000000 children living in open ages across the world and we know already that 80 percent of them have a parent that could care for them if they were supported and that's astounding quite ben-dor is campaigning to end the floral found it's really hard to get paper to change their minds particularly when they have been supporting an orphanage for a long time even when we found a family for these children some some dinosaurs and to us that's great they've found the hanley bit you want let them go back they will you back to poverty
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because the kids will be better off with you one day. poverty is just a lack of resources resources we can fix laos can't buy that we can't just pay for that to happen that has happened in a family. apart after poverty. one issue time. one i want to visit the putting school serving up good to be disadvantaged and downtrodden. on al-jazeera one of the really special things that working for others here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know very challenging the ability particularly because you have
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