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National Security Study Memorandum 200. National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200), also known as the "Kissinger Report", was a national security directive completed on December 10, 1974 by the United States National Security Council under the direction of Henry Kissinger following initial orders from ...
In 2007, UNICEF estimated there were 380,000 orphans in Haiti, which has a population of just over 9 million, according to the CIA World Factbook. However, since the January 2010 earthquake , the number of orphans has skyrocketed, and the living conditions for orphans have seriously deteriorated.
In 2015, Iris Global has expanded its work to provide food, clothing, and shelter to thousands of orphans. [6] [8] The organization has networks of church-based orphan care in all ten provinces in Mozambique [9] as well as bases in main cities, [10] including a base in Pemba which houses 200 orphans and several baby houses for abandoned infants.
The U.N.’s previous population assessment, released in 2022, suggested that humanity could grow to 10.4 billion people by the late 2000s, but lower birth rates in some of the world’s largest ...
Orphanages in the United Kingdom (1 C, 21 P) Orphanages in the United States (1 C, 41 P) This page was last edited on 20 May 2017, at 14:37 (UTC). Text is available ...
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
The government-run orphanage in eastern China opened its first baby hatch on 1 June 2014, International Children's Day, as a symbolic step to show the country's commitment to improving child welfare. However, it since proved so popular that authorities have had to introduce new rules to limit the number of babies and children being abandoned.
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. OI's headquarters are in New York City