Nepali Orphanages in 'children for sale' racket

F*%&king NGOs !

The greatest scourge of the country after the MaoBadBoyz and the Murdering Bus Drivers, and probably more destructive in the long run, are the estimated 15,000 NGOs scams!

Orphanages in 'children for sale' racket

By Thomas Bell in Kathmandu

Last Updated: 1:55am GMT 10/03/2007

Dishonest agents and orphanages in Nepal are running a multi-million-pound international adoption racket, frequently sending children abroad without their birth parents' consent.

	The child offered by the agent. The infant, with his mother, was not eligible for adoption as both parents are alive and not destitute

An investigation by The Daily Telegraph has uncovered the extent of the malpractice as Kathmandu prepares to host an international adoption conference this weekend, aimed at attracting foreign adoptive parents and lobbying for deregulation.

Posing as a British couple seeking to adopt, reporters found one agent who demanded cash advances in an attempt to, in effect, sell us a Nepali baby.

One victim of the trade is Padam Bahadur Shahi, 31, a forest guard from the remote Himalayan region of Humla. He had two children to support on a salary of £23 a month when his eldest son, Kobi Raj Shahi, then aged three, fell ill two years ago.

A friend told him that a children's home in Kathmandu would help him care for the child. "They promised education and well-being," he said. "There was no agreement about adoption."