879. Daya Dan orphanage

This orphanage in India connected to the well-known Mother Teresa was not a nice place to be in general. Dirty, the children being under-medicated, children tied to their beds is not the right environment for children. However, as they say: “Given the alternatives”.

But the alternatives only exist because a state was allowed to be created too fast leaving place for no income tax system as we know it in the civilized world where money are distributed from the people well-off to the poor. The blame is on both the government who mismanagement their country and the welfare organizations working there without addressing the real issue, so the International community could put pressure on the government to look after their own country instead on playing with muscles against surrounding countries.

Mother Teresa might not have gained a lot personally from running her charity but she still managed to prey on volunteers who worked for what they believed was a good case and in her actions support a regime in an over-corrupt country who used her organization to fix what they should have taken care of long time ago.

Yes. For sure being a child in this kind of orphanage cannot be fun.

Sources:

• Living And Working With The Missionaries Of Charity (STIR)
• The squalid truth behind the legacy of Mother Teresa (New Statesman)
• Children tied to beds, nuns who flogged themselves, filthy homes: Was Mother Teresa a cult leader? (The Irish Times)
• Was Mother Teresa a cult leader? (Deccan Herald)