Australians donate to school linked to sex abuse claims

Australians are among donors to a school charity in Cambodia where the director has been charged with arranging for foreign volunteers to sexually abuse teenage students. The scandal has focused new attention on the management of Cambodia’s orphanages and children’s charities and the deception used by some to raise money. … The school includes boarding facilities where foreign volunteers come for weeks at a time, many of them well-meaning donors or gap-year students, including some from Australia, which has the greatest involvement in Cambodia’s orphanages of any nation through Australians running them directly, volunteering or donating. …

Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australians-donate-to-school-linked-to-sex-abuse-claims-20140713-zt63b.html#ixzz37P4WG85n