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Washington City Orphan Asylum, 1860, Library of Congress. Washington City Orphan Asylum, also called The Protestant Male and Female Orphan Asylum, was an orphanage established in Washington, D.C., for homeless children after the War of 1812. In 1935, it became the Hillcrest Children's Village and was moved to new facilities in the city.
Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (also known as FRUA) is a United-States-based non-profit organization, founded in 1994, which "offers families hope, help and community by providing connection, education, resources, and advocacy, and works to improve the lives of orphaned children."
[3] [4] After the move, it tightened the focus of its activities to solely caring for children. [4] By the 1950s, the Merriweather Home was the only private orphanage for Black children in Washington. [3] It continued to operate until 1971, when the nearly bankrupt institution was accused of inhumane conditions and shut down. [2] [3]
The Russian Children's Welfare Society is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in New York City with branches in Moscow and San Francisco.It was founded in 1926 to help Russian children whose families fled to other countries after the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
As of 2011 from the numbers presented from Russia at the UN states that, Russia has over 650,000 children who are registered orphans, 70% of which arrived in the orphanages in the 1990s. Of these, 370,000 are in state-run institutions while the others are either in foster care or have been adopted. [ 1 ]
Once children with disabilities in Russian orphanages turn 18, many are moved to adult closed state institutions without the consent from the young person. A Human Rights Watch study suggested that: Across five cities in Russia, 28 cases were documented of children being forcefully transferred to an adult institution once they turn 18,
The establishment of the U.S Russia Foundation was announced by presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin at the 32nd G8 summit in 2006. It was an outgrowth of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund. It was registered in the United States in 2008 and in Russia in 2009. From 2009 to 2015, USRF operated a Moscow office.
Lincoln, Nebraska: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. Kinbacher, Kurt E. (Winter 2007). "Life in the Russian bottoms: community building and identity transformation among Germans from Russia in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1876 to 1926". Journal of American Ethnic History. 26 (2): 27–57. doi:10.2307/27501804. JSTOR 27501804. S2CID ...