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The conditions in orphanages had declined after 1982, as a result of Ceauşescu's decision to seize much of the country's economic output in order to repay its foreign debt. [4] Due to the economic downturn , electricity and heat in orphanages were often intermittent and food was scarce.
Geraldine Dorothea Cox AM (born c. 1945) is the founder of Sunrise Cambodia, a charity that was originally established as an orphanage in the province of Kandal, in Cambodia, and now extends its services to sustainable development and family support in several provinces of the country.
In 2002, the orphanage gained legal personification and recognition as the Pediatric Foundation of Kimbondo (Fondation Pédiatrique de Kimbondo; FPK) in adherence to Congolese jurisprudence. [1] Authorization for medical training was granted in 2000, and FPK received approval for its societal and eleemosynary operations in 2001.
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.
Kinderdorf Pestalozzi (lit. ' Pestalozzi Children’s Village ') is a non-profit organization located in Trogen, Canton Appenzell.It was named after the Swiss education pioneer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
His death left the orphanage unfinished due to lack of resources to carry out his efforts. [2] His successor, Bishop Fray Gerónimo de Nosti y Valdés, took up his idea and restored the Casa Cuna in a building he built on the corner of Oficios and Muralla. [3] It originally housed two hundred orphans. [citation needed]
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.
After seeing a documentary film about "G.I. babies" of the Korean War in orphanages in Korea, the Holts decided they would adopt some of the children who needed families. [6] Harry began preparations to go to Korea, and Bertha asked a friend how to go about adopting eight children from another country.