Out of Sight: the Orphanages Where Disabled Children Are Abandoned

“We’re exporting a model that we know is harmful to children,” Ahern says. “When I began visiting orphanages and institutions for children some 13 years ago, and witnessed unimaginable human rights abuses and torture perpetrated against children – left to die lonely painful deaths, immobile children left in cribs for years, no touch, no love – I knew we had to do something big.”

DRI's Worldwide Campaign to End the Institutionalization of Children is featured in the Guardian today.

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