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Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), literally meaning Our little brothers and sisters, is a charitable organization that has provided a home for thousands of orphans and abandoned children since 1954. Currently there are NPH homes in nine Latin American countries.
Wasson's devotion to the care of orphans inspired an outpouring of financial support and volunteer helpers for his humanitarian cause. NPH USA traces its roots to Wasson's family and friends in Arizona, who sent clothes, food and money. In 1965, Friends of Our Little Brothers was incorporated in Arizona as a non-profit organization.
There are over 700 public and privates orphanages in Mexico which house over 30,000 children. In 2018 it was estimated that 400,000 children lacked parents. Of these 100,000 are thought to be homeless. [138] Some notable orphanages include: Casa Hogar Jeruel Orphanage in Chihuahua City, Mexico [139] Casa Hogar Alegría [140]
Inter-country adoption is still important when children cannot be placed with families in their country of origin, and UNICEF estimates there to be 17.6 million children who have lost both of ...
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Members of the French charity L'Arche de Zoé are charged by the government of Chad after attempting to fly over 100 children out of the country, for adoption by French families. The members claimed the children were orphans from Darfur, Sudan, but it was later revealed that some children were from Chad, with no evidence that they had been ...
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The other part of the debate is more financially motivated, as residential child care facilities are more costly than foster care, adoption, wrap-around services and kinship care. [17] Studies show that the foster system can cause and enforce mental issues, as every additional movement a child has to go through increases the probability of these.