ORPHANAGES - VOLUNTOURISM

George Oliver (left) and Frederick James Hall, the first boys to be admitted to The Children's Home – the original name for Action for Children – in 1869

Orphanages are not always what they seem.

(Satanic child abuse on Jersey. )

On 9th April 2011, the Mail on Sunday reports:

(Orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones are abusing kids.)

According to the Mail on Sunday:

1. Child welfare expert Jennifer Morgan visited an orphanage on Haiti.

"The children there have been exposed to rapes, severe beatings, emotional and mental trauma," she says.

The boss of an orphanage in Haiti screamed at Morgan: "Stop reuniting children with their families.

"You’re destroying my business."

Orphanages, run as money-making enterprises, take money from gullible aid groups, volunteers and holidaymakers.

In Haiti, the police chief said many orphanages are fronts for criminal organisations.

(ISRAELIS IN HAITI FOR ORGAN HARVESTING AND CHILD SEX.)

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2. In Cambodia, the number of orphanages has nearly doubled in five years.

Almost three-quarters of the kids in the orphanages do have parents!

3. "Voluntourism", involving tourists helping out in orphanages, is a fast growing industry.

4. Siem Reap, next to Angkor wat, is a small town in Cambodia.

It has 35 orphanages!

"The children may have been stolen, rented from their parents or tricked from impoverished rural villagers with false promises of wealth, education and healthcare."

5. Some orphanages are involved in child labour and sexual abuse.

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6. In Bali, the number of orphanages has doubled in recent years.

Two-thirds of the children in the orphanages have parents.

The orphanages recruit cute children from poor families with promises of food and schooling.

Some of the orphans are forced to work very long hours on building sites. Malnutrition is common.

7. Brenton Whittaker, founder of Bali Kids, says that some directors sell all the donated goods, even medicines, for profit.

8. In Sri Lanka, a study found that 92% of children in orphanages had living parents.

Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi, also known as Baron La Croix, the Loa or spirit of the dead in Haitian voodoo. A laughing, dancing, cane-wielding and foul-mouthed skeleton, he is most often depicted wearing a top hat and a cloak. The Baron also has other attributes, being the Loa of sex and resurrection. I find it of particular interest that the Haitians have linked sex, death and resurrection in a trinity.

So, there Samedi stands at a crossroads, where the souls of the dead pass on their way to Guinee, the final resting place, perhaps recalling Guinea in West Africa, from where many of the original slaves who created the voodoo tradition came, and where they hoped to return. Standing a little like Osiris in Egyptian mythology, Samedi is the judge of the dead; it is only with his permission, and guidance, that they can pass on to Guinee.

He is by far the most powerful of the voodoo spirits, at one and the same time a benevolent and dangerous force, who’s magic can offer protection or destruction, depending on his mood. He is responsible for both the procreation of the living-he is sometimes symbolised by a phallus-and the putrefaction of the dead. As a last resort he is invoked to help those driven to the point of death by malign magic. They will not die if the Baron refuses to ‘dig their grave.’

Given over to exchanging bawdy jokes with other spirits, including Maman Brigitte, his wife, the Baron also enjoys smoking cigars and drinking rum, which are almost invariably included among the offerings to the spirit made by his devotees. It is as well to keep on the good side of the dark Baron; for if one does not he may decide to dig one’s grave too early And if he is in a really foul mood, well you probably know as much about zombies as I do!