HIV+ Girls Made To Clean Sewage Holes, Treated Like Slaves In Orphanage In Telangana

India is not a country for orphans. If you are a girl, chances are that you might be forced into prostitution after being abused as a child. If you are a boy, chances are that you might turn to crime to survive.

The survivors who make it out relatively unharmed become activists, trying to make lives of orphans in orphanages a bit more hospitable.

To get an idea of how bad it can get, an orphanage in Telangana makes underage orphan girls clean blocked sewage manholes with their hands. They made an HIV+ girl climb into a manhole and clean it out manually.

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The worst part is that when The News Minute reporters confronted the authorities of the ‘AGAPE Orphan Home’, they obstinately said that ‘it was a small manhole’

“The manhole is also a very small one. It hardly comes up to the hip for children. I don’t know why people are making this such an issue.”

 

In addition to this, the children are made to sweep the floor, wash the dishes, and even wash and dry the clothes manually. The authorities deny this even though the local residents have seen the atrocities first hand.

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Local shopkeepers and passersby have noticed the orphans being treated badly. They have even approached the orphanage for an explanation.

“Some of them are even made to carry water cans from one hostel to another. They are given a trolley, and they have to push it in this heat. I can only imagine the condition of the poor children.”

No complaints have been made yet and the girls are strictly told to not venture out and stay upstairs.

The orphanage was started by a Lynne Guhman-Voggu from Massachusetts, who married an Indian and settled in India. It seems like a classic case where the founders of the orphanage are out of touch with how their orphanages work.

Or simply, maybe they don’t care at all.

Let’s hope that the child rights commission notices this and investigates into the atrocities against the orphans.

Source – The News Minute

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