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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:56:55 -0000
Subject: [IslamCity] WELL-FUNDED CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES TORTURE DISABLED CHILDREN IN INDIA
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Please note that 2 articles follow:
*Mother Teresa charity says ties children for safety
*Teresa's nuns defensive about tying up children
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(1)
Mother Teresa charity says ties children for safety
31 Jul 2005 14:32:30 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Krittivas Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, July 31 (Reuters) - A charity founded by Mother Teresa said
on Sunday disabled children at one of its homes in India were
restrained for their own safety, after a British television reporter
filmed children tied to their beds.
Britain's Five News, in a programme to be broadcast on Monday, said it
had uncovered "serious shortcomings" at a care centre run by the
Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
It secretly filmed many of the 59 children -- aged six months to 12
years -- living at the Daya Dan shelter tied by their ankles to their
cots at night, restrained while being fed and left for up to 20
minutes on the toilet by their carers.
In a statement, Five News said it began investigating the home after
hearing complaints from international aid workers.
The global order of nuns said on Sunday its charitable homes only tied
children when absolutely necessary.
"Physical restraints are used only when absolutely necessary for the
safety of the child ... for limited periods of time," a Missionaries
of Charity statement faxed to Reuters said.
"We value constructive criticism and admit that there is always room
for improvement."
A spokeswoman for the order, Sister Christie, told Reuters by phone
from Calcutta: "It (the tying) happens only when we see the child
could be hurt. It's about their safety.
"The children are sometimes tied because they keep waving their hands
and moving when being fed. Also they could fall off (the cots) while
sleeping at night."
Five News reporter Donal MacIntyre said: "I was truly shocked by what
I found at the Daya Dan centre. There are strategies for looking after
disabled children that minimise stressful situations, and, as a result
of poor training and lack of resources, staff are resorting to
inhumane practises such as tying children up."
Five News said: "The shocking footage reveals that despite receiving
millions of pounds in donations every year, there is little evidence
of its investment at the centres Donal visited."
Daya Dan was set up in 1998, a year after the death of Mother Teresa,
who adopted Calcutta as the centre of her global charitable order that
now runs more than 750 centres across the world.
The Missionaries of Charity, famous for working among the sick,
destitute and dying, said it was committed to serving the ideals of
Mother Teresa and improving the quality of care in Daya Dan.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, who founded the order in 1950
in Calcutta, died in 1997 at the age of 87. (Additional reporting by
Kamil Zaheer)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31156279.htm
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(2)
Teresa's nuns defensive about tying up children
By Sujoy Dhar
Indo-Asian News Service
August 1, 2005
http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/08/01/01ter.shtml
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) Responding to a British TV film showing
physically challenged infants tied to beds, the Missionaries of
Charity (MoC) says it takes the steps sparingly and only for the
child's safety and "educational purposes".
"Physical restraints are used only when absolutely necessary for the
safety of the child and for educational purposes for limited periods
of time," said Sister Nirmala, superior general of MoC, the order
founded by Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa in 1950.
In its programme to be telecast Monday, Britain's Five News said it
had uncovered "serious shortcomings" at a care centre run by MoC in
Kolkata.
British TV reporter Donal MacIntyre secretly filmed many of the 59
children aged between six months and 12 years at Daya Dan, a care
centre set up a year after Mother Teresa's death in 1997, "tied by
their ankles to their cots at night, restrained while being fed and
left up to 20 minutes on the toilet by their care givers".
Sister Nirmala told IANS: "Our homes continue to be simple, providing
immediate and effective service to the poorest of poor. We continue to
provide all that is necessary for the physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual needs of those under care and would continue to improve the
quality of our care."
"We thank you for bringing to our notice what you consider lapses in
the quality of care and hygiene in this home. We value constructive
criticism and admit there is room for improvement," she said.
She said only those who work day in and day out with these 59 very
special children really know both the demands to total
self-forgetfulness as well as the joy at the littlest response and
improvement in these children.
"Dedication, love and care is something money cannot buy and this is
the reason our dearest Mother Teresa encouraged people to give not
just out of their abundance but their hearts of love and their hands
to serve."
Sister Paula Marie, who runs Daya Dan, said: "We would not do any such
thing at all for no specific reason."
"These are cases where a child has been found putting food into the
eyes, face and mouth with both hands, leaving caregivers with no
alternatives to tie his or her hands with a piece of cloth for the
time the child is fed."
Journalist Donal MacIntyre dubbed what he filmed at Daya Dan as
unacceptable behaviour saying: "This is unacceptable in Russia, that
is unacceptable in Romania, that is unacceptable in England - and it
is unacceptable in Kolkata."
MacIntyre said: "Missionaries of Charity received millions and
millions of pounds in donation and they must do better."
MOC runs more than 750 care centres across the world tending the
orphans, sick, destitute and dying.
http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/08/01/01ter.shtml
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