Yasmin Khatun Dewan

Mar 7, 2024 | homeofscience.net | Shazir Mucklai |Yasmin Khatun Dewan

Seven years after Ishrat Baig donated £40k to a charity to build an orphanage, it is still incomplete. A woman who gave £40,000 to a charity to build an orphanage, says she feels “cheated” because, seven years later, the job has yet to be finished. Ishrat Baig says she was told by Penny Appeal in 2017 that the home – part of a larger complex in Pakistan – would take about a year to build. However, a BBC team found in February this year that the orphanage had not yet opened.

Mar 7, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Yasmin Khatun Dewan

A woman who gave £40,000 to a charity to build an orphanage, says she feels "cheated" because, seven years later, the job has yet to be finished. Ishrat Baig says she was told by Penny Appeal in 2017 that the home - part of a larger complex in Pakistan - would take about a year to build. However, a BBC team found in February this year that the orphanage had not yet opened. The charity has blamed the delays on the Covid pandemic. For more than a decade, Ishrat Baig dreamed of building an orphanage.