18 years ago

Orphanages unused by deported children

Children who came to the Netherlands as unaccompanied refugees and have been deported back to Angola and Congo are not using places at two orphanages paid for by the Dutch state, the immigration service IND confirmed on Monday. The paper reported that only one child has used the orphanage in Angola since it was opened in 2003 by former immigration minister Rita Verdonk. In 2005, the government decided to pay for four places at an orphanage in Congo to ease the return of failed juvenile refugees. According to the IND, the boy’s foster parents knew it was only a temporary placement and therefore his right to a family life, as set down in the European Treaty on Human Rights, no longer applied, the paper said.

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