How (Not) To Start an Orphanage by Tara Winkler

How (Not) To Start an Orphanage by Tara Winkler

Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, which had a huge impact on Tara. She determined to come home to Australia and raise money for the welfare of those children. Tara returned to Battambang in 2007 with the money, only to discover that the same children she'd grown to love were in deep trouble - they were being subjected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. In response, Tara worked with a team of caring locals and established the Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) to provide these children with a new safe home. Since then, Tara has learned a lot - most importantly, she's learned that establishing orphanages is not in the children's best interests. CCT has big plans to help many more children stay with their families and be cared for within their communities. In How (Not) To Start an Orphanage, Tara shares the many joys and the terrible lows of her journey thus far with humour and passion.

Winkler was twenty-two when she discovered the director of the orphanage where she was volunteering was embezzling donations and abusing childrenShe now provides education and health programs through the Cambodian Children's Trust. * Herald Sun, 2016's Hottest 100 Books *
An eye-opening, inspiring and deeply moving story * Vacations & Travel *

Tara Winkler is the founder of a secular non-profit NGO running projects to help break the cycle of poverty in Cambodia.

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ISBN 13	9781742376288
ISBN 10	1742376282
Title	How (Not) To Start an Orphanage
Author	Tara Winkler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Allen & Unwin
Year published	2016-04-27
Number of pages	320
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