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Donors who believe they're helping orphaned children in foreign countries may unknowingly be contributing to a trafficking scheme that consists of deceiving families and exploiting children for labor or sexual purposes, according to a recent study.
Rebecca Nhep, the senior technical advisor at Better Care Network, an international network of organizations focused on finding solutions for children globally who lack familial care, published the study "The Role of Clientelism in Facilitating Orphanage Trafficking" last month in the Journal of Human Trafficking.
The study highlights the role patron-client relationships play in the "recruitment, transfer, exploitation, and concealment of child exploitation within unregulated residential care facilities."
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Donors may unknowingly be providing support to trafficking, exploitation of children: study
Donors who believe they re helping orphaned children in foreign countries may unknowingly be contributing to a trafficking scheme that consists of exploiting children for labor or sexual purposes,