The Hell you say! We battled with Rotary International and Rotary Northwest and Rotary Lake Oswego Oregon for two years to admit what they were doing and stop funding the removal of Akha children at the project http://www.childrengoldentriangle.org
After confronting the gov. of Rotary NW they finally pulled the project off the Rotary Intl. website. But they never admitted that taking children was a problem. In fact the Gov. defended the Australian David Stevenson, saying he had been assured that the children were "abandoned". We made very clear that the children were not abandoned and told Rotary exactly how the scam works.
We doubted Rotary had quit.
And no they haven't.
Here is their latest website Rotary 5100.
http://www.d5100wcs.org/...
Rotary has invited a PR war against it.
The Gov. of Rotary NW was furious about being confronted over the project at the NW convention in Salem, Oregon.
What motivates all these men in Rotary to keep going to THAILAND and keep pushing funding for the removal of what David Stevenson states as 500 Akha children?
This is not the best solution for these children who could be supported with their families in the villages.
Rotary has been well informed of this.
DO NO HARM. Apparently LAKE OSWEGO ROTARY just doesn't get it.
To say nothing that this "charity" requires you to log in. Has repeated pictures of dirty children to promote donors, and says almost nothing about the context of Akha life, but rather continues to push the horror button, in danger, in danger, in danger.
Asa and David Stevenson admitted they bought a resort with donor money in an interview with a "volunteer". The resort is in Mae Suai Thailand.
Rotary knew very well what was going on. They would not answer any of our questions about the issue of removing children in the first place and said they pulled the funding because David could not tell them where tens of thousands of dollars went. Of course he can't. But they are still funding him. So what are the visitors to CGT getting paid with?
You have 500 children, and a man accountable to no one for what happens to these children. Akha in nearby villages have stated that Akha children at Rotary have gone missing. Others have said Akha children from CGT have ended up at the "Hanky Panky" Tatoo Parlor in Amsterdam. A New Zealand volunteer assigned to go through the Akha kids paper work was dramatically fired with his other volunteers when he began asking too many questions about strange irregularities in the children's papers.
(many child documents can be for sale in Thailand to make fake ID cards for illegal immigrants)
Rotary has no excuse for funding this project. They do so in defiance.
Anyone with any shred of concern should be alarmed that Rotary International continues to fund the removal of Akha children to one of the most shadowy of fake orphanages in Thailand.
View the White Tara Documentary about CGT in Thailand:
http://www.whitetara.org/...
A picture of an Akha woman that Rotary exploited for their magazine:
http://www.akha.org/...
We will accept no excuses, we will persue Rotary over this until they show concrete means by which they have stopped this funding, and have made proof of undoing the damage they have done.
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