Bell's character Smike is tortured in a boarding school for orphans until he is saved by the idealistic Nicholas Nickleby (Hunnam).

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Six years ago, while in Uganda filming The Last King of Scotland, actor Forest Whitaker stopped by a school for orphans called Hope North.

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During my semester abroad in Namibia, I interned at a school for orphans and vulnerable children called Hope Initiatives, where I taught students between the ages of two and twenty about a wide range of subjects including History, Math, Science, English and Health Education.

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Otherwise, the only two "privileges" arise after death - there is a school for freemen's orphans in Surrey and an almshouse for their widows in south-west London.

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Campaigners say children are sexually abused by relatives, neighbours, at school and at care homes for orphans and that most of the cases go unreported because in India's traditional system, parents and families are afraid of attracting social stigma.

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