Not-So-Poor Elderly Benefit From Charity

Reporter Sabina Reingold investigates whether all the elderly people who get financial help from Kyrgyz charity groups are equally deserving.

Not-So-Poor Elderly Benefit From Charity

Reporter Sabina Reingold investigates whether all the elderly people who get financial help from Kyrgyz charity groups are equally deserving.

Wednesday, 12 August, 2009
IWPR

IWPR

Institute for War & Peace Reporting

Large numbers of older people are undoubtedly in dire straits, particularly when they have no children to help them. But others appear to be claiming charity when they are relatively comfortably off.

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