of severe child neglect while there are good and legitimate orphanages in nepal experts there warn that too often voluntourism fees and donor dollars end up going into the orphanage owners pockets not to help the children and more often than not the kids arent actually orphans at all but are being trafficked an estimated 90 percent of orphanages in nepal are located in the main tourist hubs this new phenomenon called voluntourism the orphanages get volunteers to come they create websites the foreigners come they give money the children are kept under terrible conditions said anna howe of course you know the foreigners heart is broken and they give and give and give howe and martin punaks work for an american ngo called next generation nepal which works alongside the nepali government to rescue children from abusive orphanages and bring them to a transit home the transit homes provide shelter protection health care and education until the team at next generation nepal can find the childs parents and reunite them with their family according to howe orphanages in nepal can get thousands of dollars in donations from foreigners but they need children to get the money so some orphanage owners will send agents into rural villages to convince poor parents to send their children to the city the trafficker could be anyone she said it could be a relative of someone in the village it could be someone thats got high status dressed well educated speaks well makes every promise that you can imagine promises sponsorship boarding school health care all for these children howe said the parents hearing these false promises and thinking their children will have a better life will turn over their kids to the traffickers and too often she said the children are mistreated and the parents never find out where their children end up that is what next generation nepal said happened to three young siblings sushila rushila and sudip from a small village three hours outside kathmandu the organization said the three children were rescued from a neglectful orphanage called hamro ghar in a raid that was broadcast on local television the siblings said they were beaten and underfed at the orphanage and sudip and sushila developed tuberculosis unicef estimates that 85 percent of children in orphanages in nepal have at least one living parent and have asked tourists to carefully consider the impact of volunteering or donating funds to nepali childrens homes saying that without realizing it such support could be indirectly harming children making matters worse was the devastating earthquake the struck last year killing 8000 people and displacing countless more creating more chaos that human rights groups warn could lead to more orphanage trafficking touring earthquakeravaged kathmandu nepal a virtual reality experience us rescue team officials with a sniffer dog search for survivors at a collapsed house in kathmandu on may 12 2015 after an earthquake struck prakash mathemaafpgetty images the child welfare board of nepal tries to keep tabs