All the agencies were struggling to even get food to children in all the orphanages.
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People are suffering, not only in prisons and camps, but in orphanages and hospitals as well.
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So Gordon formed her own nonprofit, vowing to fix orphanages one outpost at a time.
She wants to improve the sad state of child care in orphanages in the developing world.
Meanwhile, Gordon began a journey that has taken her to 51 orphanages in 11 countries.
The Shakers stopped caring for such children in the 1960s, when popular sentiment turned against orphanages.
The Refresh Project succeeded in gathering 80m online votes and helped numerous homeless shelters and orphanages.
She has also defended the right of state orphanages to enforce virginity tests on older girls.
Many babies were abandoned and the number of children sent to orphanages increased dramatically.
Ms Rojas's mother then began to search orphanages throughout the country for a trace of her grandson.
Amid all the venality, there were some good works: missions, orphanages and clinics set up in Africa.
Selamawit suggests that the money should be reinvested into the orphanages to help those children left behind.
While the number of orphans has decreased, the number of orphanages has risen with the rise of tourism.
Many Gypsy children are virtually bereft of parents: in Romania's wretched orphanages, three-quarters of the inhabitants are Gypsies.
Following reports of scandalous conditions in orphanages there after the collapse of communism, outsiders flocked to adopt children.
Unicef estimates that three out of every four children in Cambodian orphanages actually have one or more living parents.
Part of Iraqi tradition obligates relatives to take in orphaned or abandoned children, rather than put them into orphanages.
Gordon started reading about the policies of the WHO and the World Bank and found similar disdain for orphanages.
Russia has some 600, 000 children not in parental custody who live in orphanages, with foster families or relatives the government says.
The state is failing, for instance, to look after orphanages, prisons and asylums.
The children were not sent for adoption or to orphanages but also murdered.
Many ended up in orphanages and institutions where they were treated harshly and in many instances physically and sexually abused.
In February 2004 Gordon and Harkins visited orphanages across Central America, looking for the right place to begin their work.
With Russia so far offering few subsidies to families who offer foster care, many such children end up in orphanages.
In turn, the K-Kids clubs would write letters to the children in the orphanages for us to stuff in the shoes.
You talk about distributing food through agencies like orphanages, or homeless shelters or care centers, do you ever serve communities directly?
The government, for example, issues vouchers with which the poor can buy private housing, and pays non-profit groups to run orphanages.
So she now has 11 orphanages serving over 600 kids in Afghanistan.
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But a scheme by childcare professionals a few years ago to encourage orphanages to send children to foster parents was officially blocked.
The treatment of children in Romania in particular, and the country's many state orphanages, has long been a source of national humiliation.
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