All the agencies were struggling to even get food to children in all the orphanages.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. personnel help tutor English in a local community center and support charities including orphanages and a school for children with disabilities.
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So instead of rotating caregivers, as many orphanages do, Pikler has each one looking after the same small group for several years.
The charity runs two large orphanages, and schools for boys and girls.
Since the 1960s experts in child development have sought to eliminate orphanages altogether, farming kids out to foster care or small group homes.
In 2008, they were adopted by Lisa and Tague Harding of Minnesota through the Amani Baby Cottage, one of the respected, religiously-affiliated orphanages.
By the time I finished, and this was two years later, we had a count, and we were dealing with about 100 orphanages.
In both Russia and Kyrgyzstan, large numbers of abandoned children live in orphanages, and domestic adoptions are not sufficient to meet the needs.
According Russia's education ministry, the number of children sent to orphanages fell to 82, 200 in 2011, from as high as 133, 000 in 2005.
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