Welcome to the real world. We strongly suggest that you read the recent New York Times story about the fall of Somaly Nam, the queen of anti-trafficking and orphan saving. nytimes/2014/06/15/world/asia/cambodian-activists-fall-exposes-broad-deception.html It is a sorry story about greed and the cynical willingness to do whatever it takes to make money that is unfortunately quite typical of our business. It explains a lot about Warm Heart is so explicit about the fact that we work with families in poverty, not orphans, and why we are so suspicious of the over-wrought rhetoric of the anti-trafficking cheerleaders. And it explains, too, why we are so insistent about the importance of real, grassroots community ties. If you are a big, commercial NGO, you simply cannot know enough to understand what is really going on, to know whos who or to sort the scams from the real needs. We are willing to sacrifice the promised virtues of large-scale - even national scale - replication (as in Cambodia) for the certainty that donor money goes where it is supposed to and that it accomplishes real, needed, high-value developmental purposes.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:39:23 +0000
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