Georgette Mulheir The tragedy of orphanages

Children from orphanages don't have parents?

In addition, orphanages had been established in several provinces.

36. WFP is also providing assistance to schools, hospitals and orphanages.

Allegations of orphanages misappropriating financial and material support will be carefully investigated.

Most people imagine orphanages as a benign environment that care for children.

Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages.

Legislation is urgently required to prevent abuse of vulnerable people in clinics and orphanages.

There have been several reported cases of external trafficking involving orphanages in Sierra Leone.

The situation of handicapped and displaced children in boarding schools and orphanages is particularly difficult.

Violence against children in other institutional settings (orphanages, etc.), including children in conflict with the law.

We invited over 160 orphans from different orphanages in Egypt at the GUC premises for a fun day.

Over time, orphanages were abandoned in favour of foster care or family style homes in most developed countries.

Special attention is also needed for children in institutions, including orphanages and centres for the handicapped and disabled.

Orphaned, abandoned or displaced children who have been cut off from their parents are catered for in orphanages.

Across Europe and Central Asia, approximately one million children live in large residential institutions, usually known as orphanages.

Resources at the orphanages are limited, and many of the children there do not live to their fifth birthday.

The Children apos s Assistance Programme (CAP), a Liberian NGO, is providing an increasing number of orphanages with staff.

If we know people who are planning to support orphanages, we should convince them to support family services instead.

In six years now, we have four schools, one junior college, 1,100 children coming from 28 slums and four orphanages.

In six years now, we have four schools, one junior college, 1,100 children coming from 28 slums and four orphanages.

Ausama Idrees, a medical student in Iraq, needs help raising some funds to renovate 2 existing orphanages in Duhok, a city in northern Iraq where he currently lives, writes Bahraini Esra'a, who appeals to readers to dig deep into their pockets to make the orphanages see light.

Orphanages are costly and can cause irreparable damage both mentally and physically for its charges so why are they still so ubiquitous? Georgette Mulheir gravely describes the tragedy of orphanages and urges us to end our reliance on them, by finding alternate ways of supporting children in need.

Institute has taken clowns into the war zones in Bosnia, refugee camps in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as South African orphanages.

The Committee is seriously concerned about the reports of children who are illegally adopted from orphanages for the purpose of trafficking in organs.

IBS has preferred to concentrate on pesantrens because the environment in the pesantrens is more friendly and natural than the one in orphanages.

Centres to help female victims of violence as well as orphanages had been opened, and specially trained staff were on hand there to provide assistance.

Activities included provision and distribution of food items (KMIX, high protein BP 5 biscuits, oil, rice, sugar, beans, tea, vitamin A) to kindergartens and orphanages.

The ONUB programme review committee allocates quick impact projects by region by prioritizing needs according to such factors as weaknesses in infrastructure, schools, orphanages, or water wells.

Others cater for children with disabilities through services' centres for disabled boys and girls, welfare homes, orphanages, and programmes of assistance for the families of disabled children.

They began offering services to students of the university as well as to the general public such as teaching free courses and offering aid to orphanages and hospitals.

The places filling the void left by their deceased fathers and mothers, that is, orphanages, have become a favourite nesting place for a species of Israeli mechanical bird.

UNIFIL provided humanitarian assistance to the Lebanese civilian population in the form of medical care, water projects, equipment and services for schools and orphanages and social services for the needy.

When a State lacks the resources required to maintain projects such as orphanages, clinics or refugee camps managed by a listed entity, it may not want to take action against it.

Orphanages are financed from the local budgets and care is provided to children from the age of 2 to 18 (see the distribution of children among various care institution in the table).

By the beginning of the 20th century, there were about 23,000 Catholic adherents, 55 churches and chapels, representatives of monastic orders, and social and educational institutions (orphanages, schools and a seminary and college).

One or two States have shown concern that by freezing the assets of a listed NPO, they would be unable to fund projects under their control such as orphanages, hospitals or refugee centres.

The report describes the diversion by Al Itihaad of funds received from non governmental sources in the Gulf States to support orphanages and other good causes to purchase arms (S 2005 153, para.

The accused were linked with local aid agencies running orphanages and had persuaded parents to give up their children who were then smuggled to a neighbouring country and flown to the United States.

A task force on children in orphanages, consisting of representatives from child protection agencies, the United Nations and NGOs and relevant government agencies such as the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has been established.

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III recently stated that, since 2011, over 1,000 Christians have been killed and more than 40 churches and other Christian institutions (schools, orphanages, and care homes) have been damaged or destroyed.

71. UNESCO has also provided urgently needed supplies to schools and orphanages in both Belarus and Ukraine, as well as training and equipment to the Radiation Medicine Research Clinic in Minsk and the Kiev Radiation Protection Clinic.

Eleven years later, it's one of the biggest charity organizations in Egypt, with more than 50 branches all over the country, tens of thousands of volunteers, and different activities that vary from blood donation and orphanages, to fighting illiteracy.

This has been the case in residential boarding schools far away, where the speaking of the native language was forbidden, with sanctions varying from physical punishment to shame orphanages for children who did have families indentured child labour, etc.

For children who are not orphans, family tracing and reunification will be undertaken to prevent such children from being put in orphanages, UNICEF will be working with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in the provision of basic services.