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The Prinkipo Greek Orphanage (Turkish: Prinkipo Rum Yetimhanesi, also known as Prinkipo Palace or Büyükada Greek Orphanage) is a historic 20,000-square-meter wooden building on Büyükada, one of the nine Princes' Islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. It is considered the largest wooden building in Europe and ...
Stora barnhuset in 1784; the orphanage is the big white building behind the shed in the front.. Stora Barnhuset (literally: "Great Children's Home"), from 1785 known as Allmänna Barnhuset ("Public Children's Home"), [citation needed] was Sweden's largest orphanage, founded 1633 in Stockholm and active until 1922.
An orphanage is a residential institution, ... Location Founder 1741 Foundling Hospital: ... SOS Children's Villages is the world's largest non-governmental, ...
During a World War II air raid in March 1945, some Francke Foundation buildings, including the Francke residence and the Latina, were either damaged or destroyed. In 1946, during the Soviet occupation of East Germany the presidium of the province of Saxony abolished the Francke Foundations and turned over all its assets and buildings to the ...
Façade of the Hospicio de San José. Hospicio de San José is a Roman Catholic welfare institution in the City of Manila, the Philippines.It is the first social welfare agency in the country, and as a foster care institution has been a home for orphans, the abandoned, special needs, and the elderly.
The complex was founded in 1810 by the Bishop of Guadalajara in order to combine the functions of a workhouse, hospital, orphanage, and almshouse.It owes its name to Juan Ruiz de Cabañas who was appointed to the see of Guadalajara in 1796 and engaged Manuel Tolsá, a renowned architect from Mexico City, to design the structure.
Elizabeth Saunders Home is an orphanage in Japan established in 1948 by Miki Sawada, a Mitsubishi heiress, [1] with the original intent of housing biracial children, typically those born between men of the occupying US Armed Forces and Japanese women, who were abandoned by their parents and ostracized by Japanese society immediately after World War II.
Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) is a charitable organization created to house and educate orphans and abandoned children.In response to the crisis facing orphaned children around the world, former investment bank employee Jim Luce founded Orphans International in 1999.