Orphanage facts for kids
An orphanage is an institution that takes in and cares for orphans. It can also mean state of being an orphan. This is when a child is an orphan.
Historically it was very often the church or the state who cared for orphans.
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Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice. The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead. Such ex-communication may not be canceled until the culprit refunds all freights incurred to raise the baby.
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Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow
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Sofianlehto Orphanage from 1930 in Helsinki, Finland
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St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia
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The Foundling Hospital. The building has been demolished.
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A group of orphans at Crumpsall Workhouse in the 19th century
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Thomas John Barnardo, the founder of the Barnardos Home for orphaned children.
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AIDS orphans in Malawi
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Mother of Peace AIDS orphanage, Zimbabwe, 2005
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PRT donates clothing, blankets to Khowst orphanage in Afghanistan
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Tirurangadi Orphanage, India.
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Orphan girls at the Aleppo Armenian orphanage, 1923
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The Moscow Orphanage (founded in 1763, constructed in the 1770s)
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Orphanage in Ukraine
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St. Elizabeth's orphanage in New Orleans, 1940
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In a Colombian orphanage, a nurse takes care of three children.
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See also
In Spanish: Orfanato para niños
