{"id":32647,"date":"2021-05-31T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/31\/sponsor-a-child-schemes-attacked-for-perpetuating-racist-attitudes"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:30:16","slug":"sponsor-a-child-schemes-attacked-for-perpetuating-racist-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32647","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sponsor a child\u2019 schemes attacked for perpetuating racist attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using individual children to \u2018sell\u2019 schemes to rich donors is similar to \u2018poverty porn\u2019 images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aid<\/p>\n<p>International child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking, as an apology by a charity to thousands of children in Sri Lanka has sparked a debate over the money-raising schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Plan International last week admitted it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/22\/plan-international-accused-of-abandoning-children-in-sri-lanka-exit\">made \u201cmistakes\u201d over its exit from Sri Lanka<\/a> in 2020, following criticism from donors and former employees that it had failed 20,000 vulnerable children in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/31\/sponsor-a-child-schemes-attacked-for-perpetuating-racist-attitudes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using individual children to \u2018sell\u2019 schemes to rich donors is similar to \u2018poverty porn\u2019 images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aidInternational child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking, as an a&#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":[247,2190,245,59,362,79,61,674,2191,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-charities","category-children","category-global-development","category-race","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\/32647","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=32647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32648,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32647\/revisions\/32648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}