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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts) Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:21 PM Dec 2013

Jakaranda Children's Home, South African Orphanage, Losing Funding Because Kids Are 'Too White'

HuffPo: Jakaranda Children's Home, South African Orphanage, Losing Funding Because Kids Are 'Too White'

The Jakaranda Children’s Home, a South African orphanage, says it’s losing funding from large companies because 70 percent of its children are white, news24.com reports.

“To us a child is a child. We don’t discriminate," Elzane van der Merwe a spokesperson for the orphanage told Beeld. "Here we have 250 children between 18 months and 18 years that need care, regardless of race or gender.”

The orphanage houses abused children who are placed in the organization’s care by court order, according to its website. The home needs 25,620,000 South African Rand ($2,954,293) a year to run.

The Jakaranda Children’s Home was told that it will lose funding because its practices don't adhere to South Africa’s policy of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), van der Merwe told news24.com.

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/jakaranda-childrens-home-loses-funding_n_2258871.html

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Jakaranda Children's Home, South African Orphanage, Losing Funding Because Kids Are 'Too White' (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Dec 2013 OP

I read the article gollygee Dec 2013 #1

I mostly posted it to be informational. OmahaBlueDog Dec 2013 #2

Fortunatly, according to the last paragraph, kiva Dec 2013 #3

Here's the part of the story that will be ignored by right wingers groundloop Dec 2013 #4

gollygee

(22,336 posts)

1. I read the article

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:28 PM

Dec 2013

and it doesn't explain the reason why 70% of the orphanage is white when 79% of the country is black. I guess the reason for that would influence how I felt.

OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts)

2. I mostly posted it to be informational.

Reply to gollygee (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:32 PM

Dec 2013

The story is circulating on Facebook and through the winger blogosphere.

kiva

(4,373 posts)

3. Fortunatly, according to the last paragraph,

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:43 PM

Dec 2013

says this section of the policy has been removed. Pulling funding from orphanages that truly care for children is never good.

groundloop

(11,523 posts)

4. Here's the part of the story that will be ignored by right wingers

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 04:53 PM

Dec 2013

But on Nov. 29, after citing media and public misinterpretation of the policy’s intentions, South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry withdrew the controversial section, according to a department statement.

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