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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.
The home closed in 1935 but reopened as an orphanage named the Berachah Child Institute, [1] which existed from 1936 to 1942. The University of Texas at Arlington purchased the property in 1963. [2] [3] On March 7, 1981, a Texas Historical Marker was installed and dedicated at the graveyard that served the Berachah Home.
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]
[9] [16] Manzanar Children's Village is no longer standing, but there is a National Park Service-operated informational slide about the orphanage at its former site, and the Children's Village Oral History Project, archived at the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton, contains interviews with former ...
Kirwan House seen here to the rear during Seán T. O'Kelly's inauguratuion parade in June 1945 passing Hanlon's corner.. Kirwan House or The Female Orphan House was a Church of Ireland-run female orphanage initially at 42 Prussia Street (1790-93), next on Dublin's North Circular Road (1793-1959) and latterly at 134 Sandford Road in Ranelagh (1959-87).
A few years later, Moller decided to earmark £1,200 to founding an orphanage, using land intended for the Old Women's Home. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1807-1811) was particularly enthusiastic about the plan and contributed 5,000 Dutch rijksdaalders of his own money, while his successor, Lord Charles Somerset, issued an 8,000-riksdaalder loan for ...
Encouraged by a local missionary, in 1992, Barbieri founded an orphanage and home for single mothers, which she called San Giuseppe (St. Joseph's) in the village of Muhura, [2] in the Gatsibo District in the Eastern Province and about 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Kigali. [4] [13] By 1994, her orphanage was surrounded by militia groups. [1]
The Martinitt orphanage was founded by Gerolamo Emiliani, who had previously created an orphanage for the poor in Venice.In 1528, Duke Francesco II Sforza of Milan decided to transfer to Emiliani the oratory of Saint Martin, located in the very centre of Milan (now Via Manzoni), to be used as Milan's orphanage.