Counter but now carving up the oil and gas riches of the east and that is radium could prove to be costly to say millions of jobs lost as peru tries to control the spread of the corona virus. Plus the brigadier who wants to run the world trade organization. Charging the cost on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to rewind summary when we launched the ring wish more than 10 years ago our goal was to bring you the source of documentaries all the channels simply want doing here on rewind we revisit some of the best of them and find out how the stories of moved on and today were returning to a film which had a major impact on young lives and changed the way a Global Business was developing. Tourism it is one of the biggest drivers of the Global Economy in 2018 it was worth nearly 9 trillion dollars making up more than 10 percent of the worlds Gross Domestic Product after emerging from more than 2 decades of war in the 1990 s. Cambodia has relied heavily on tourism to rebuild its economy its one of the Top Destinations for young travelers many of whom sign up with global volunteering companies but theres a dark side to this story war breeds all thins and back in 2012 Investigative ReporterGiuliana Rufus went on to cover to find that well intentioned tourists were unwittingly fueling the exploitation of children at poorly regulated orphanages from the people in policy areas this is cambodias off a business. Numpad the capital of come by. Between the 1970 s. And 1990 s. Cambodia was ravaged by civil war. Since its return to peace there has been a boom in tourism with over 2000000 visiting every year. Keen to help this war torn country increasing numbers of tourists and now also working as one until. Most come with the very best intentions to work in schools and orphanages filling a gap left by a lack of development funding. But recently disturbing stories have emerged that come bowden children are being exploited by some of the companies organizing volunteers all running all from agencies weve come to somebody out to investigate allegations that try to few of these orphanages out run not for need but for profit. Our journey begins on the outskirts of jumpin at an orphanage and school for the peoples improvement organization. Set up 10 years ago it provides Free Education for. When he hooked on the citys main garbage dump. Was that. I. Mean if theres an example of best practice in this industry then perhaps this is it means. The book from denmark has come to teach for 2 months. So has it been so far i really like that its so clean i can do whatever i want and i come in to my files like that everybodys really friendly and the kids i really respect so they really get they give a lot. In a deprived neighborhood p. O. s making a difference to organize pullen tearing in foreign donations. Its found pam and newman explains how past conflicts have contributed to the estimated 10000 children in orphanages all this time oh yeah they have children and they are so poor and they are abandoned them sometimes they just come to drop in from the door and they leave we dont know who or where they from these people why would a parent leave their child here on the doorstep while he will often at. Yad do know they. Cannot afford to take care and also on some family they want to keep to go to school but they cannot afford. There are now almost 500 from ages income by a figure that has doubled in the past decade. Some like p i o rely on foreign volunteers for skills and labor but the vast majority use volunteer and to generate income. We find one of them the lighthouse orphanage on the other side of town. Sinking. Yeah lighthouse is home to 108 boys and girls ranging from 3 to 18 years old and. They request that we donate some food for the children to eat you get good food sometimes too you struggle i can say much better than your hometown a beat up on the roman government or any n. P. O. Yet so you need to a nation strong volunteer mr ritchie is responsible for bringing volunteers to light house and hes found a way of increasing revenues. If you will from the edges not just hosting get volunteers but groups of School Students on short term stays to just now a group of canadians are visiting in their downtime to students get to play with the children. And over the past week some special friendships have developed even the teachers are not immune to when they say i dont know. Dealing with a kid is going to be hard for just a deaf ear and you know one of these little guys walks up and grabs your hand you have no choice but to sort of follow up with them so. And that its pretty awesome. As canadian simple from scrotes closer not just good will but a lot of money is flowing into the orphanages to. Be supplied. The labor probably bought the tiles the sand the compost so we sent out about 5000. 00 ahead of time and then i brought a few 100. 00 with me so we bought some rice them which i call work of a water pump to keep the garden going so. Kind of give them a little happiness today with their shopping and all this is a huge amount of money in a country where the average wage is 65. 00 a month what they will never know is whether all of it will be used for the benefit of the children. We knew from various reports that in a number of. Cases a huge influx of donor money has attracted unscrupulous businesspeople to open orphanages for the wrong reasons. To find out more and geo puts us in touch with conti and young chante who grew up in an orphanage. When the donors discovered that the director had been stealing the money donated for the children the orphanage was closed down. And john t. Take us to see their old home to tell us about the reality of friends lives hidden from the eyes of volunteers. And at the moment. But how. Would you know god what are. The. We have have they can i well. How do you know why you. Why didnt you tell the volunteers out was going on but that i am with you. One that will get dinner at me and you guys my mail paddling at least ill be so lining up that i came out in the. Palm grove with her. Would come out all men would go away. Com says he still suffers spouts of depression he works in 2 different restaurants for just 3. 00 a day. Chante 2 says hes still affected he now has a regular job at the airport but not everyone from the orphanages fared so well. John t. Introduces us to china who lives rough on the streets and stays here outside. Highly her. Town but im going by. What. It is but. The child barely speaks it. Appears but. In japanese. Its. Small kind of fallback you pull what im fat. Deputy bad memory and my red hair but hold up that i think that all the fight with my family and by you. But its not just the combo genes in charge of orphanages who are accused of taking advantage of the money flowing into that voluntourism has become a Global Industry and with Foreign Companies tapping into the potential profits true. We need us trail not demi jackson is who has volunteered in cambodia for the past 3 years and her experiences have made a jaded about the industry that really led to a lot of our nature is there at the things that vary from behind the scenes that you would just see coming in fast time demi explains that volunteers like her book this stays in cambodia for International Commercial volunteering Companies Based outside the country. Her 1st visit in 2009 was through projects abroad one of the largest in the world. Volunteering comes at a cost and demi surprised how little money actually goes to the local finishes program my doctor once told me that he gets tired all the same way. Here. And you know it takes of what you pay up to 3000. 00 a month. That he gets hired the other way so what hes saying is about a 100. 00 a week for legal mention if you have 10 people say 1000. 00 for the implementation that sends us down. A lot of money and then its like that somehow just a moment to the. Right. The show is an ngo that investigates allegations of exploitation of children in orphanages and its one of the few places where volunteers can voice their concerns. I know from. Ehrenstein mob working on a case about an orphanage called the childrens im sent to organization or cuckoo brought to them by former volunteers. So these are the email complaints that we did get from the volunteers really clearly stated what their concerns were. The abuse the children missing the director was openly saying that he did want to adopt the children out for a price about 10000. 00 which is which is extremely concerning for the show as well the doctrine is illegal in cambodia. There were allegations of physical abuse or food standards so the kids were looking hungry it was open sewage the boys were sleeping under a smaller roof in the roof is leaking so this place is Getting International volunteers organizations do you know who these organizations are well suited to grows acute for one or the volunteering really consciously brought and this is dating back to literally one pretty much one year ago. She should took the allegations to the competent government to send in their examined in november 2011 and january 2012. Has been inspected trice by the ministry of social affairs and they found the conditions step holding him back very badly but that would close the orphanage down if it doesnt start complying with that minimum standards. To avoid devising suspicions we go in on the cover that is volunteers wearing hidden cameras. And we are greeted by saying that so often in. Just the right of the letter to do better. And go over them. Soon it is king for us to start teaching straightaway oh part im going to let in the market bob well im going to run at that i begin to think that i have never done any teaching and ive been told you that youre going to have to do the same for you. I have the book and you can respond she stood you. Having simply walked off the street we are now teaching an english class then there is a seemingly endless amount of playtime. Many of the children are hyperactive and demand constant attention to it it is nice. To see you know the streets how many of the many times i was thinking. About it he said think out of this mess there is no longer. The kids of color nothing to do it was and what she was turning point was. When seen it returns he shows us the childrens rooms only half of the beds have mattresses on the 3rd look so middle of the hour ill only say i dont know what is the metal these other conditions the government inspectors asked him to improve on is that i would look over the south now right around canal that right near of life. Was there was a lot of the oil that you have really they have had to do is a lot of people. In the middle of the courtyard we also see the open sewer report to see sure. There are accusations that cynic uses the childrens misery to generate donations whether or not this is truth he certainly doesnt seem to make any effort to meet the governments minimum standards. Before we leave sin a tries to get money out of us again how bad it was old can still have a day. Care i really dont have to carry me to the outside im. Ok and so i was. Ready half an hour sometimes i go out all the right. Things a cuckoo up bag. But in the evening we learned that they can get even worse. Has become a target for child sex offenders and one to come investigate such cases for an n. C. O. Called ex police on phone and. Hes deeply concerned that some volunteer placement organizations fail to ask volunteers to undergo criminal record checks this is the very high useful and moving children who are living in the office. This guy you know his american guys and he came to come boy you through such a broad you were in a pretty tricky hospital shockingly this man dr James Dagostino had originally come to come both yes frugal in tearing with projects abroad and at the time here also brought 3 on the boys and one of the elderly in the buying records rented and according to the statement from the boy he appears the boy on multiple occasions in another case a british paedophile nick griffon had opened his very own orphanage and abused boys then. Both men were found guilty and comes out in courts and sentenced to jail terms of 4 and 2 years respectively we return to cuckoo to follow up on the single most serious allegation that some of the children have gone missing from the orphanage. Stepping in to our surprise a dutchman has a. Funfair. Also the same thing really say. About how strong your faith other people are all the trouble is they have stuff but. Theyre sick so far. In field wherever we turn we keep hearing about projects abroad to our amazement he tells us projects abroad never asked him for a criminal background check which he would have had to agree to under dutch law. When we go looking for direct as soon as we find him at the back. But. We want to test how serious he is about protecting his orphans by asking him if we can remove some of the children. Then run. For everyones safety weve asked the social worker to join us we tell sinnett shes a friend and interpreter we wanted her to. This afternoon to see if we can take some of the kids to have a little toy or. A plump and think of how many. Maybe you havent. Seen it is actually getting us to choose between the children. And minutes later with full of them. Never once have we been asked for identification. This is actually totally crazy ciena just allowed us to pick up 4 kids from his often actually they now gone out and we could just drive off with them. We knew from seizures investigations that the children are from the north east of the country but the paperwork at the orphanage was fabricated and their birth parents could not be traced to remember you. The sad reality is that even if the government would come to the rescue of these children they could never be reunited with their families. During our time income boda we have heard a lot about projects abroad now it was time to find out more. Projects abroad had a turnover of over 24000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in 2010 that made over 3000000. 00 u. S. Dollars profit and paid a dividend of 1000000. 00 to the 2 directors i asked projects abroad why they continue sending their fallen tears into orphanages that are so clearly failing the children and why they are putting children at risk by not asking all the volunteers for criminal background checks the company declines an on camera interview but tells us in writing that crew who receives 50. 00 per month for every volunteer they say that even if the allegations against kuku were correct it would be better for the children in the orphanage to have better volunteers on the ground they also claim that since 2010 they do criminal background checks on the over thirtys and that for those younger they require a written reference from a School College unnamed referee. When we put our allegations to sin had the director of cuckoo he denied them all. Most volunteers decide on visiting cambodia with nothing but good intentions and until things improve the country and its people are said to benefit from sharing qualified skills. But most volunteers also arrive by an increasingly commercial system and before leaving home its worth investigating who really stands to profit from their presence. Cambodias often business a film which played a major pass in increasing the understanding of the potential dont. Of voluntourism well im very pleased to say that were joined here in the studio by the filmmaker has Giuliana Rufus lovely to see you giuliana you were one of the 1st people to report on this internationally how did you even come across a story like this im actually quite interested in psychology and i was attending a conference on trauma and it was a global conference and there was a psychologist sociologist from cambodia and shed been working on that issue because a lot of the children were damaged psychologically and she told me about it and i thought it was astounding that this really wasnt an issue that was known about. Tell us about the children who you met there 1st of all we used the word all friends they all technically what we would believe to be orphans yeah i mean that was really the 1st thing that i was interested in the vast majority of the children in these socalled orphanages actually do have parents and they there are people who go around and who effectively recruit these children they say to the parents that the children are going to get great education that theyll be in touch with lots of best westerners and the parens allow them allow these recruiters to take the children and then they get put into these again orphanages and effectively some of these orphanages are a money making machine and do the children actually get to see the benefits of any of that money or a lot of the children are really damaged theyre damaged firstly because theyre being taken away from their parents and then secondly a lot of them and you can actually see that in our film they have what is called an attachment disorder so that they continuously get attached to a new person a new volunteer plays with them show us them with affection and then leaves very quickly im trying to imagine what what you went through in that actually i know its about the children but i mean thats a thats a very emotional things ago as for where this story really got me is when we tried to take some. Of the children out for a day out and what we tried to demonstrate is really the complete neglect of care that it was just he was just allowed to do it this is something you could be anyone narry because we actually its a country that has a well known problem with child abuse especially paedophilia that is foreigners Foreign Tourists for socalled tourists again coming in and abusing children so the idea that we could take these children out without any supervision was quite astounding and that is really the thing that hit me i was so focused on will this happen can we take the kids out that when we finally said with these kids in the car it was actually quite emotional because we had this sense of the driving of with them in a car and we could have done absolutely anything to these kids and when you did take the children out of the orphanage you had a social worker with you and yeah you can actually see in the film and the social worker she was there for 2 reasons firstly to protect the children and to make sure that they are safe and comfortable and she helped translate but secondly it was also to actually protect us because we were aware that we were making what could be a very controversial film and we were worried about future allegation accusing us to have done something incorrect with the children she was there also to make sure that we were safe in that sense and whats happened since what as far as tightening up the laws. We can talk about the government but what about the actual images themselves are they still operation like this yeah there were actually quite a few responses to this so firstly on an International Level the awareness has really grown so astray i would say is as a country a leading example because they have actually made the trafficking of children into orphanages illegal theyve theyre describing it as a modern form of slavery and so thats the International Response then income budgets self the authorities half reacted to some degree theyve. Down some of the orphanages and theyve worked with International Agencies like the un and and also International Organizations to close these orphanages down and and actively reunite the children from orphanages with families where possible but also and this was particularly important to me some of the companies that run voluntourism schemed have to cite it to abandon the sending of untrained wallen tears into orphanages gillian its been fascinating talking to you really great thanks for coming in thank you for having me. And projects abroad the company which you saw in that film say they no longer work in orphanages they say they now work with Community Based projects which means working with children still living at home well that is it for this edition of rewind to check us out online at aljazeera dot com for more films from the series and updates from the odyssey and well see you again next time. Rewind returns. 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