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MOTHER TERESA CHARITY ABUSES DISABLED CHILDREN

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[ Subject: Mother Theresa charity abuses disabled children
[ From: "G.Subramaniam" <gsub...@comcast.net>
[ Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 2005

Mother Teresa's Legacy  

Five News exposes ill-treatment of disabled youngsters at
mother teresa's care home

Five News has uncovered serious shortcomings at a care
centre run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in
Calcutta, India, it was announced today.

This special investigation by Five's investigative
reporter Donal MacIntyre, contains secret filming at the
Daya-Dan centre, Mother Teresa's home for the learning
disabled,  which is responsible for around 50 disabled
children aged six months to 12 years.  

The film reveals:

 o  children restrained whilst being fed 

 o  youngsters tethered by robe to their cots overnight 
 o  a group of children abandoned on the toilet 
 o  haphazard care and hygiene & degrading treatment 

View picture here: 

http://macintyre.com/images/stories/linksimages/fivenews%20exclu01r.jpg 

View picture here:  

http://macintyre.com/images/stories/linksimages/fivenews%20exclu03r.jpg 

After hearing serious complaints from international aid
workers, Donal filmed undercover in Calcutta for four
days. He worked alongside other international volunteers,
Missionary of Charity Sisters and local workers. 

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. While at Daya-Dan Donal filmed several children
being tied-up as poorly-trained workers attempted to feed
them. There was evidence of low-levels of hygiene,
including the head of the unit stirring medicine with her
finger. And, in one sequence, a group of six disabled
children are left on the toilet, unattended, for over
twenty minutes.  

Filming after hours at the Daya-Dan centre Donal found
the children tied and tethered by their ankles to their
cots. The report shows the distressed children crouched
in their cots, with ropes around their ankles. 

Martin Gallagher, former Operations Director of MENCAP
UK, who appears in the film, said: "My overall impression
of the pictures you've shown me from this centre is that
the standard of care is shoddy and haphazard. I think
abandoning someone on the toilet for that length of time
is shoddy practise. This is a threat to their hygiene.
It's also a threat to their dignity."

On seeing footage of the children tied to their cots
Martin Gallagher added: "As far as I'm concerned it's a
breech of their Human Rights." 

Five's Donal MacIntrye said: "International aid workers
had been approaching me, saying that these Mother Teresa
homes were not as good as they should be, and that
serious breeches of care were taking place. But 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 barbaric practises such as tying children up. Unless
the Missionaries of Charity, the guardians of Mother
Teresa's legacy, improve their standards, they risk
damaging not only the health of those in their care but
also the reputation of one of the world's most remarkable
women." 

The Missionaries of Charity said in response: "Our homes
continue to be simple, providing innediate and effective
service to the poorest of the poor as long as they have
no one else to look after them. Physical restraints are
used only when absolutely necessary for the safety of the
child and for educational purposes. We try to provide all
that  is necessary for the mental, physical, emotional
and spiritual needs of those under  our care and are
committed to continual efforts at improving the quality
of care we give them".

They add: "We value constructive criticism and admit that
there is always room for improvement. Thank you for
bringing to our notice what you consider lapses in the
quality of care and hygeine in this home".

Mother Teresa's Legacy - a Special Investigation by Five
News - will be shown on Five on Monday 1st August at
5.30pm.  

For further information please contact

Stephanie Faber on 020 7550 5589 or stephanie.fa...@five.tv or
Justine Bower on 07801 678 382 or
Michael Murray-Fennell on 07704 921 371

http://macintyre.com/content/view/519/116/ 

End of forwarded message from "G.Subramaniam" <gsub...@comcast.net>

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