Father Thaddeus and Matushka Sally just got back from a mission trip to the Hogar Rafael Ayou orphanage in Guatemala. It's run by a group of Orthodox nuns. It sits in a rough part of Guatemala City.
When they took it over about 10 years ago it was stuffed with sick, diseased kids being "cared for" by the government. The beds (now used as rabbit hutches) were infested with cockroaches. Food was barely fit for animals.
Now it's cleam, well run, the kids are being educated, they're being loved and cared for, everything is beautiful...
Except that UNICEF is urging the government to take over all orphanages and ban private ones. Their methodology is basically blackmail: "you do what we want or we won't give you anymore monetary support." So the kids could end up back in the kind of hellhole the nuns lifted them out of a decade ago, and the nuns could be out on their ear.
Sorry UNICEF, but who the heck died and made YOU "king of the world"?
I thought you were about the kids, but clearly you're about something else.
What a pity.
(There's a link to the orphanage on the St. Raphael Church website in the list at the right).
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