he didn't start school until he was 12 after coming to this orphana orphanage. he isn't an orphan and neither are many of the children here. >> translation: my parents sent me to this center seven years ago because they had problems earning a living. they couldn't send me to school and we didn't have food. >> reporter: a recent study by the government found that almost 12,000 children currently live in orphanages in cambodia but three out of four of them have a living parents. concerned about cases of abuse and neglect in some orphanages, the government and u.n. are pushing to return these children to their families >> some of the institutions are not actually carefully not monitored, they're not respecting minimum standard of care, and what is very important is also that there are mechanism in place to inspect those institutions regularly. >> reporter: but his parents say he is better off where he is. they say they can't afford to look after him. they earn less than $5 a day selling balloons on the street. >> translation: if he stays with us he will have to wor

. >> they bring them to an orphana orphanage, they don't necessary do well. what is it in that society? how do you fit in with other groups? >> reporter: for now most of the children have moved on, learning to be kids again. most importantly, trying to shape their future. al jazeera, northeast nigeria. >>> well, in part two of our series on the plight of orphans around the world, we report from cambodia where a campaign is underway to reunite children who have managed to find their parents. that's saturday right here on al jazeera. >>> still to come on the program, we will look at whether the tomb of king tut holds the key to his mother's burial site. >>> in sport, find out if anyone looks lively to rival mercedes ahead of the new formula one season. >>> archaeologists say that more analysis is needed to establish if the tomb of king tut can reveal one of the most important discoveries of the centuries. they've been using radar technology to scan a cavity hidden behind king tut's 3,000-year-old tomb. egyptologists think it's a burial chamber housing the remai