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The Francke Foundations are today a non-profit educational organization housed in a complex of historic buildings. The Francke Foundations includes three kindergartens , a children’s creativity centre, four schools, a House of Generations, a youth workshop, a bible centre, traditional commercial enterprises, archives, libraries, museums, and ...
Children at SOS Children's Villages in Kandalaksha in Russia. The Second World War resulted in many children becoming homeless and orphaned. Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986), who himself participated in the war as an Austrian soldier, founded the first SOS Children's Village in Imst in the Austrian Federal State of Tyrol in 1949 together with Maria Hofer, Josef Jestl, Ludwig ...
Babe Ruth, American baseball star, raised in an orphanage; Gunboat Smith, Irish-American Boxer, grew up in orphanages around the Philadelphia area; Jim Thorpe, American multi-sport Olympic and professional athlete, orphaned as a teen; Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian professional auto racing driver
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
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Baby hatch in Germany Baby hatch called "BabyBox" in the Czech Republic Baby hatch in Poland.The label OKNO ŻYCIA means 'Window of Life'. A baby hatch or baby box [1] is a place where people (typically mothers) can leave babies, usually newborn, anonymously in a safe place to be found and cared for.
Under South Korea's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, white parents in Europe, Australia and the United States adopted 200,000 majority female South Korean children, which is the biggest adoptee diaspora in the world. The European countries included Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark.