{"id":32357,"date":"2021-05-22T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/22\/plan-international-accused-of-abandoning-children-in-sri-lanka-exit"},"modified":"2021-05-22T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:15:53","slug":"plan-international-accused-of-abandoning-children-in-sri-lanka-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32357","title":{"rendered":"Plan International accused of abandoning children in Sri Lanka exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s charity faces claims it failed vulnerable children and misled donors after shutting down activities in the country<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest children\u2019s rights charities has admitted it \u201cmade a number of mistakes\u201d when it left Sri Lanka abruptly last year, amid accusations it had misled the public and donors and failed 20,000 vulnerable children in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Former employees and provincial governors who spoke to the Guardian described Plan International\u2019s exit as \u201cirresponsible\u201d, \u201ccynical and indefensible\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/22\/plan-international-accused-of-abandoning-children-in-sri-lanka-exit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s charity faces claims it failed vulnerable children and misled donors after shutting down activities in the countryOne of the world\u2019s largest children\u2019s rights charities has admitted it \u201cmade a number of mistakes\u201d when it left Sri Lanka abrup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,2190,245,59,958,79,61,674,2191,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-charities","category-children","category-global-development","category-poverty","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-voluntary-sector","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32358,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions\/32358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}