Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
By Conor Grennan
Lovely book--true story--wish it had been longer. A compassionate young American interrupted his trek around the world to work a three-month volunteer job at an orphanage in Nepal. But the children he found weren't orphans--they were the victims of a child trafficking scam. Criminals--one in particular--would extort large sums of money from parents to take their children away from the civil war; take them to safe homes, places where they would be well-fed, schooled, and loved.
Lovely book--true story--wish it had been longer. A compassionate young American interrupted his trek around the world to work a three-month volunteer job at an orphanage in Nepal. But the children he found weren't orphans--they were the victims of a child trafficking scam. Criminals--one in particular--would extort large sums of money from parents to take their children away from the civil war; take them to safe homes, places where they would be well-fed, schooled, and loved.
The children ended up as slaves or beggars on the streets of Kathmandu, but a fortunate few ended up at the Little Princes Children's Home. And Conor Grennan ended up with a life's mission he'd never imagined--reuniting children with parents they'd nearly forgotten...but who'd never forgotten them.
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