No, we try not to talk like that here at the foundation. Mark Twain said that.
Well, it happened again. The latest incidence of an NGO or its personnel wildly inflating problems or statistics to gain attention or to focus the world on the importance the problem they address. I have some interest in Myanmar and ran across this. Our foundation website links to a more comprehensive article about how the same thing happens with NGO’s working in Thailand.
In that article Alex Renton states that the evidence for trafficking and extreme abuse is more anecdotal than statistical. While I believe him, and can’t give you much in the way of statistics, what I can tell you is that the anecdotes do exist. I have met them. There appear to be enough of them to keep us busy and at this particular time make us wish we had the ability to take in one more child. Assuming we can reach it, will our end goal of being able to care for nearly four hundred such children be enough?
My guess is that it will not be. I’d give you some statistics to back that up, but right now I don’t have any.
I will certainly do everything I can to insure that statistics and information you get from here or our foundation website are true, or at least try to qualify what we say.
