Scammers

We arrived at Macanhan the other day to find out that most of the children have been transferred to a National Government Facility. This turned out to be great news- the new place has 24hr nurses, a doctor once a weeks, proper security, an indoor and out door playground, plus children over 5 get 'school-like' activities to do. Also they have chores and have to be polite, so they are finally getting some discipline. We also found out some interesting information about HOLY CHILD orphanage, the place we were originally going to help at.Then head of the new facility that most of the Macanhan children are now at was the investigating officer for the case against HOLY CHILD and she had quite a bit to say about Sister Celia (refer to picture of small Nun in the First Glimpse post). It turns out that the place is a scam,they get foreign charities to donate money, the former leader/priest is in jail for child molestation and misappropriation of funds, and 3 years ago they had there license to be a care center permanently revoked. What Sister Celia is doing, is gathering up kids from the area and getting them to pretend they are orphans, now I know why she stressed about 20 times that we had to call before we came, and never turn up unannounced, plus they had a look out on the road leading in , lol. We felt something was up on our first proper visit and didn't return, now our suspicions are confirmed.


Here are some pics of the kids, and conditions that are still at Macanhan. It is a solid good building, but where Eve is standing is usually under ankle-deep water full of mosquitos, the whole yard is like that...