Children at an orphanage located at the Yellow Generation Wave monastery in Yangon's northern suburbs, seen in December 2020. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)
Children at an orphanage located at the Yellow Generation Wave monastery in Yangon's northern suburbs, seen in December 2020. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

‘Sometimes we can’t accept them’: Overburdened orphanages turn away the needy

Orphanages and charitable boarding houses are stretched to the limit taking in children displaced by conflict across Myanmar, as donations dry up and the regime cracks down on civil society.

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