Krish Kandiah, the founder of Home for Good, a fostering and adoption charity, wants the UK to adopt a law which is being brought in in Australia which would limit the often non-intentional funding of orphanages where children may be exploited.
He told Premier: “One of the things the Australian government has been really revolutionary on is taking the modern day slavery bill that was here in the UK and adding to it a clause around orphan trafficking.”
Explaining what orphanage trafficking is, Rebecca Nhep joint CEO of ACCIC international relief, an aid and development agency in Australia, told Premier: “It’s a type of human trafficking that involves the recruitment and movement of children, primarily from their families and communities into institutional care settings for the purpose of exploitation, which can look like harbouring children in situations which are detrimental to their care and detrimental to their development or it can also look like for the purpose of orphanage trafficking.”
Rebecca said many churches don’t know that it is “a business model, whereby children are being used as the commodity in order to illicit and attract for funding and donations.”
Often these orphanages are funded by generous donations, foreign aid budgets and visits from church groups but the supply supersedes the ‘demand’, therefore keeping children in homes and sometime kept…
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