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On June 23, 1942, they were bused, under armed guard, with several adult caretakers from Los Angeles to Manzanar. [3] Over the next few months, approximately thirty more children from Washington, Oregon and Alaska, mostly orphans who had been living with non-Japanese foster families, would arrive in Manzanar.
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Mary's Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.
Walter Lindley (1852–1922) was a medical doctor in Los Angeles, California, ... Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society, Orphanage #2, Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...
The Uganda AIDS Orphan Children Foundation (UAOCF) is a non-profit charity that helps vulnerable children and those orphaned by AIDS in Uganda.UAOCF received 501 (c) (3) charity status in 2003; subsequently, the Internal Revenue Service granted permanent public charity status in 2006. [1]
The Home has remained in continuous use since its establishment. It is located on a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) wooded campus overlooking the U.S. Capitol in the heart of Washington, D.C., three miles from the White House, [15] and continues to serve as a retirement home for U.S. enlisted men and women. Both the Washington, D.C., and Gulfport soldiers ...
Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.
In 1984, after public discussion and hearings, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors created both the Department of Children Services and the Commission for Children's Services. [5] In 1994, the Board changed the name to the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). [2]
In 1952, the Los Angeles Times described the origins of the Pisgah Home movement: "He (Yoakum) walked the back streets, among the down-and-outers, calling on them to give themselves to Christ. One by one at first, and then in droves, society's outcasts heeded and followed the fervent doctor with the white hair and trimly clipped white beard.