to orphan trains, when a quarter million poor children from East Coast cities were sent on trains to homes in the Midwest, where they often labored as farm hands; to the Foundling Asylum of the ...

BIRNIN-KEBBI – Mtech Global Concepts, a humanitarian foundation operating in Kebbi State on Tuesday gave over 500 orphans and vulnerable members of the society education grants which include UTME ...

The Social Welfare Department has now decided to provide free education to orphan children in its residential schools, including Morarji Desai Residential Schools, run by the Karnataka Residential ...

He was a Presbyterian minister who wanted to help the poor. By 1850, between 10,000 and 30,000 children lived in the streets of New York or in orphanages. Brace established the Children's Aid ...

In 1888, struck by the number of orphans she was continuing to find around Atlanta, she founded the Carrie Steele Orphans Home.

As a young girl in the 1990s, I was surrounded by orphan stories: our family’s creaky VHS tape of the 1982 version of “Annie”; the well-thumbed library paperbacks of “The Boxcar Children ...

The Orphan Trains follows the story of the ... This forerunner of modern foster care forever changed the lives of poor urban children--sometimes providing them with great opportunity, sometimes ...