UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of OrphanagesRobert Carmichael March 23, 2011 Phnom Penh
The Cambodian government has begun investigating the country’s orphanages; just days after the United Nations Children's Fund expressed its concerns that nearly three out of four children in the country's orphanages have at least one living parent.
Earlier this week, UNICEF said most of the 12,000 children in Cambodia’s orphanages are, in fact, not orphans. Nearly three-quarters of them have one living parent, yet the number of children in care has more than doubled in five years.
UNICEF said the number of orphanage centers has nearly doubled, to 269 facilities in the same period.
Just 21 of those are run by the government. The rest are funded and run by foreign donors and faith-based organizations.
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