An orphanage is a housing agency devoted to the care of orphans - children whose biological parents are dead or unable or unwilling to care for them. Biological parents, and sometimes biological grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of this, no godparents named, or other relatives are willing to take care of children, they become wards countries and orphanages is one way of providing care, housing and education.
It is often used to describe institutions abroad, where it is a more accurate term, since the word orphan has a different definition in international adoption. Most of the children living in orphanages are not orphans; four out of five children in an orphanage that have at least one parent live and most have large families. Most of the orphanages have been closed in Europe and North America. There are still large numbers of state-funded orphanages in the former Soviet Block but they are slowly being erased for direct support to vulnerable families and the development of care and adoption services where this is not possible.
Some major international charities continue to fund orphanages; however, they are generally still established by smaller charities and religious groups. Especially in developing countries, orphanages can prey on vulnerable families at risk of damage and actively recruit children to ensure sustainable financing. Orphanages in developing countries are rarely run by the state.
The present-day institutions for children are also described as collective care, including housing groups, child care communities, children's homes, shelters, rehabilitation centers, night shelters, or youth care centers.
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History
The Romans established their first orphanage around 400 AD. Jewish law governs the care for widows and orphans, and the law of Athena supports all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen. Plato ( Laws, 927) says: "Orphans should be placed under the care of the guardians of the public Men should have fear of the loneliness of the orphans and the souls of their deceased parents A man must love orphans the unfortunate one in which he is the keeper as if he were his own son.He must be careful and diligent in the management of orphan property like his or even more cautious. "The orphan treatment was referred to the bishop and, during the Middle Ages, to monasteries. As soon as they are old enough, children are often given as apprentices for households to ensure their support and to learn a job.
In medieval Europe, orphan care tended to be in the hands of the Church. The Elizabethan Poor Laws were enacted at the time of the Reformation, and placed public responsibility on individual parishes to care for the poor poor.
Founder Hospital
The growth of sentimental philanthropy in the 18th century led to the formation of the first charity to serve orphans. Foundling Hospital was founded in 1741 by the philanthropic marine captain, Thomas Coram in London, England, as a children's home for "the education and care of exposed and exposed young children". The first children enter the temporary house located in Hatton Garden. Initially, no questions were asked about children or parents, but different tokens were given to each child by parents.
At the reception, children are sent to rural wet nurses, where they live until they are about four or five years old. At the age of sixteen, girls generally apprenticed as servants for four years; at the age of fourteen, boys apprenticed to various jobs, usually for seven years. There is generous funds for adults.
In 1756, the House of Commons decided that all children offered should be accepted, that local acceptance places should be designated throughout the country, and that the funds should be publicly guaranteed. A basket of baskets hanging outside the hospital; the maximum age for admission is increased from two months to twelve, and children's floods are poured from state workhouses. Parliament immediately came to the conclusion that indiscriminate acceptance should be stopped. Hospitals adopt a system of accepting children only with a sufficiently large number. This practice was finally stopped in 1801; and it further becomes the fundamental rule that no money will be accepted.
19th century
In the early nineteenth century, the problem of abandoned children in urban areas, especially London, began to reach an alarming proportion. The social workers system, instituted in 1834, though often brutal, was an attempt at times to take care of orphans and other vulnerable people in a society that could not support themselves in return for work. Conditions, especially for women and children, are so bad that it raises criticism among the social-minded middle class; some of Charles Dickens's most famous novels, including Oliver Twist, highlight the suffering of the vulnerable and often abusive conditions prevalent in orphanages in London.
Clamor for change led to the birth of the orphanage movement. In England, this movement actually took place in the mid-19th century although orphanages such as Orphan Work House in 1758 and Bristol Asylum for Poor Orphan Girls in 1795, were formed earlier. Private Orphanages established by private benefactors; it often receives royal patronage and government oversight. The Ragged School, founded by John Pounds and Lord Shaftesbury was also formed to provide poor children with basic education.
Orphanages were also established in the United States since the early 19th century; for example, in 1806, the first private orphanage in New York (Orphan Asylum Society, now Graham Windham) was co-founded by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States. Under the influence of Charles Loring Brace, foster became a popular alternative from the mid-19th century. Then, the Social Security Act of 1935 improved conditions by granting authority on Relief for Families with Dependent Children as a form of social security.
A very influential philanthropist of the time was Thomas John Barnardo, founder of Barnardos charity. Realizing the sheer number of homeless and poor children vacillated in British cities and encouraged by the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and the 1st Earl of Cairns, she opened the first of the "House of Dr. Barnardo" in 1870. On her death at in 1905, he had set up 112 district houses, which sought and received abandoned and orphaned children, to feed, dress and educate them. The system in which this institution is widely run as follows: younger babies and girls and boys are mainly "up" in rural areas; girls over the age of fourteen were sent to industrial training houses, to be taught useful domestic work; boys over the first seventeen years are tested in workers' homes and then placed in work at home, sent to the sea, or emigrated; boys between the ages of thirteen and seventeen are trained for trades that may be mentally or physically fit.
Deinstitutionalization
The deinstitutionalization of the orphanage and children's home program began in the 1950s, after a series of scandals involving coercion of biological parents and abuse of orphans (especially in Georgia Tann's Tennessee Children's Home Society). Many countries accept the need to institutionalize the care of vulnerable children - that is, shut down orphanages that support parenting and accelerate adoption. In addition, because it is not unusual for parents born in Western countries to surrender their children, and because fewer people die of illness or violence while their children are young, the need to operate large orphanages has been decreased.
Large charities are increasingly focusing their efforts on the reintegration of orphans to keep them with their parents or extended families and communities. The orphanage is no longer common in the European community, and Romania has specifically struggled to reduce the visibility of its child institutions to meet the entry requirements of the European Union.
Some have stated that it is important to understand the reasons for child abandonment, then setting up alternative services targeted to support vulnerable families at risk of separation such as maternal and infant units and daycare centers.
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Comparison with alternative
The orphanages, especially the large ones, have had some poor treatment instances. In large institutions children, especially infants, may not receive enough eye contact, physical contact, and stimulation to promote appropriate physical, social or cognitive development. In the worst case, orphanages can be dangerous and unregulated places where children are subjected to abuse and neglect.
One important study, which denied this, was conducted by Duke University. Their researchers concluded that institutional care in America in the 20th century resulted in equal, emotional, intellectual, mental, and physical health as care by relatives, and better than home care for foreigners. One explanation for this is the prevalence of permanent temporary care . This is the name for a short stretch length of stay with different foster families. Permanent permanent foster interferes with the child and prevents the child from developing a sense of security or belonging. The placement in the home of a relative maintains and usually increases the child's connection to family members.
Another alternative is a group house used for short-term placements. They may be residential care centers, and they often specialize in certain populations with psychiatric or behavioral problems, for example, groups of homes for children and adolescents with autism, eating disorders, or substance abuse problems or child soldiers undergoing decommissioning.
Criticism
Most of the children living in institutions around the world have surviving parents or close relatives, and they most often enter the orphanage because of poverty. It is speculated that, watering with money, orphanages is increasing and encouraging children to join even though demographic data show that even the poorest big families usually take children whose parents have died. Child experts and advocates argue that orphanages are expensive and often endanger the development of children by separating them from their families and will be more effective and cheaper to help close relatives who want to take orphans.
Children living in orphanages for long periods of time are left behind in development goals, have poorer mental health. Children orphanages are not included in the statistics making it easy for their traffic or misusing them in other ways. There are campaigns to include orphans and street children in progress statistics.
Fraud
Visitors to developing countries can be picked up by orphaned fraud, which may include orphanages created for the day or an orphanage set up as a front to allow foreigners to pay school fees from orphanage orphanage family families. Alternatively, children whose maintenance costs are funded by foreigners can be sent to work instead of to school, as opposed to what donors expect. The worst even sell children. In Cambodia there are purchased from their parents with very little and passed on to westerners who pay huge fees to adopt them. This also happened in China. In Nepal, orphanages can be used as a way to expel a child from their parent before placing them for adoption abroad, which is equally beneficial for the owner who receives a number of official and unofficial payments and "donations". In other countries, such as Indonesia, orphanages run as businesses, which will attract donations and make wealthy owners; often the condition of orphans guarded will deliberately be poor to attract more donations.
Worldwide
Europe
The orphanages and institutions remaining in Europe tend to be in Eastern Europe and are generally state-funded.
Albanian
There are about 10 small orphanages in Albania; each has only 12-40 children living there.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
SOS Children's Village provides support to 240 orphans.
Bulgarian
The Bulgarian government has shown an interest in strengthening children's rights.
In 2010, Bulgaria adopted a national strategic plan for the 2010-2025 period to raise the standard of living of children in the country. Bulgaria is working hard to keep all institutions closed within the next few years and look for alternative ways to take care of children.
Sporadic support is given to poor families and working during the day; Correspondingly, various types of day centers have begun, although the quality of care in these centers is less scalable and difficult to monitor. A small number of children can also be transferred to host families ".
There are 7000 children living in Bulgarian orphans who are incorrectly classified as orphans. Only 10 percent of them are orphaned, with the rest of the children stationed in an orphanage for temporary periods when families are in crisis.
Estonian
In 2009, there were 35 orphanages, which housed about 1300 orphans.
Hungarian
A comprehensive national strategy to strengthen children's rights was adopted by Parliament in 2007 and will run until 2032.
The child's flow to the orphanage has been stopped and the children are now covered by social services. Violation of children's rights leads to litigation.
Lithuania
In Lithuania there are 105 institutions. 41 percent of each institution has more than 60 children. Lithuania has the largest number of orphans in Northern Europe.
Polish
Children's rights enjoy a relatively strong protection in Poland. Orphans are now protected by social services.
Social Worker Opportunities have increased by building more foster homes and aggressive family members can now be forced away from home, rather than putting back children/children.
Moldova
More than 8800 children grew up in state institutions, but only three percent of them were orphans.
Romanian
The Romanian child welfare system is in the process of being revised and has reduced the flow of babies to an orphanage.
According to Baroness Emma Nicholson, in some regions of Romania now has a "very new, world-class child development policy and child development." The Dickensian orphanage remains in Romania, but by 2020 Romanian institutions will be replaced by family care services, because children in need will be protected by social services.
In 2011, there were 10,833 orphans in 256 major institutions in Romania.
The massive surge in children protected by the state in 2000 over 1999 was due to many children's hospitals and residential schools for small children re-designated as orphanages in 2000.
Serbian
There are many state orphanages "where several thousand children are kept and who are still part of an outdated childcare system". The conditions for them are bad because the government is not paying enough attention in raising the standard of living for disabled children in orphanages and Serbian medical institutions.
Slovakia
The Committee makes recommendations, such as proposals to adopt a new "national 14" action plan for children for at least the next five years, and the establishment of an independent agency for the protection of children's rights.
Swedish
In Sweden there are 5,000 children in state care. None of them currently live in an orphanage, because there is a social service law that requires children to live in a family home.
United Kingdom
During the Victorian Era, child abandonment was rampant, and orphanages were established to reduce infant mortality. Places like that are often full of children who "kill nurses" are often given Godfrey Cordial, a special potion of opium and treacle, to soothe a colicky baby.
Orphaned children are placed in prisons or homes/workplaces that are poor, because there are so few places in the orphanage, or they are left to fend for themselves on the streets. Available places can only be obtained by getting a voice to enter, putting them outside the reach of poor families.
The known orphanages are:
Sub-Saharan Africa
The majority of African orphanages (especially in Sub-Saharan Africa) appear to be funded by donors, often from Western countries, not by the domestic government.
Ethiopia
"For example, at the Jerusalem Children's Home (JACH) Association, only 160 children are left out of 785 residing in three JACH orphanages."/"Attitudes about institutional care of children have shifted dramatically in recent years in Ethiopia There seems to be a general recognition by MOLSA and NGOs with the Pact that it is, at best, a last resort, and that serious problems arise with reintegration social children growing up in institutions, and deinstitutionalization through family reunification and independent living are being emphasized. "
Ghana
A 2007 survey sponsored by OAfrica (formerly African OrphanAid) and implemented by the Department of Social Welfare emerged with a figure of 4,800 children in institutional care in 148 orphanages. The government is currently trying to stop the use of orphanages that support the placement and adoption of childcare. At least eighty-eight houses have been closed since the passage of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Prohibited Children. The website www.ovcghana.org specifies these reforms.
Kenya
A 1999 survey of 36,000 orphans found the following numbers in institutional care: 64 in registered institutions and 164 in unregistered institutions.
Malawi
There are about 101 orphanages in Malawi. There are UNICEF/Government programs that are mobilized for de-institutionalization, but some orphanages have not been involved in the program.
Amitofo Care Center ("ACC"), charitable, non-governmental and non-profit orphanage organizations, consisting of administrative centers, dormitories, youth dormitories, preparatory schools, Yuan Tong Elementary School and Libraries, medical, religious center, Community Bases Organization (CBO), etc. - was founded and directed by a Buddhist monk from the East with aspirations and missions to directly support and care for the needs and vulnerable children of Africa in the umbrella of humanity and education. ACC's core principles are based on local African culture, Chinese culture, Western culture, and Buddhist philosophy delivered to needy and vulnerable children. This is regarded as a unique and remarkable ACC characteristic although it must be emphasized that no orphaned children are displaced to Buddhism, because we respect their religious freedom and will allow them to choose for themselves as they enter adulthood.
Rwanda
Out of 400,000 orphans, 5,000 live in orphanages. The Rwandan government is working with Hope and Homes for Children to close the first institution and develop a community-based child-care model that can be used across the country and eventually Africa
Tanzania
"Currently, there are 52 orphanages in Tanzania caring for about 3,000 orphans and vulnerable children." A world bank document about Tanzania shows it is six times more expensive to institutionalize a child there than to help the family become functional and support the child himself.
Nigeria
In Nigeria, a quick assessment of orphans and vulnerable children conducted in 2004 with UNICEF support reveals that there were approximately seven million orphans in 2003 and that 800,000 orphans were added in the same year. Of this number, about 1.8 million people are orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. With the spread of HIV/AIDS, the number of orphans is expected to increase rapidly in the coming years to 8.2 million in 2010.
South Africa
Since 2000, South Africa no longer licensed orphanages but they continue to be regulated unlawfully and potentially more dangerous. Theoretically, policies support a community-based family home but this is not always the case. One example is a house operated by Thokomala.
Zambia
The 1996 orphan national survey revealed no evidence of orphanage care. The details of care are as follows: 38% grandparents 55% large family 1% older orphans 6% non-relative Recently a group of students started a fundraising site for an orphanage in Zambia.
Zimbabwe
There are 39 children's privately run charities, or orphanages, in the country, and the government operates eight homes. A privately run orphanage can accommodate an average of 2000 children, although some are very small and are located in very remote areas, so they can accommodate fewer than 150 children. Statistics about the number of children in the national orphanage are not available, but caregivers say their facilities become uncontrolled almost daily. Between 1994 and 1998, the number of orphans in Zimbabwe has doubled from 200,000 to 543,000, and in five years, the number is estimated at 900,000. (Unfortunately, there is no room for these children.)
Togo
In Togo, there are about 280,000 orphans under 18 in 2005, 88,000 of whom are orphaned by AIDS. Ninety-six thousand orphans in Togo attend school.
Sierra Leone
- Children (0-17 years old) orphaned by AIDS, 2005, estimate 31,000
- Children (0-17 years old) are orphaned because all causes, 2005, estimate 340,000
- the orphan school attendance ratio, 1999-2005 71.000
Senegal
- Children (0-17 years old) orphaned by AIDS, 2005, estimate 25,000
- Children (0-17 years) to be orphaned because of all causes, 2005, estimates 560,000
- the orphan school attendance ratio, 1999-2005 74.000
South Asia
Nepal
There are at least 602 child care homes that accommodate 15,095 children in Nepal. "The orphanage has turned into a Nepalese industry, there is widespread abuse and a great need for intervention." Many do not require adequate examination of their volunteers, allowing children to be exposed to abuse.
Afghanistan
"In the two main orphanages of Kabul, Alauddin and Tahia Maskan, the number of registered children has risen almost 80 percent since last January, from 700 to more than 1,200 children, nearly half of whom have at least one parent but who can support their children. "The promise of non-governmental organizations Mahboba helps orphans in contemporary Afghanistan. Currently the number of orphanages has changed. There are about 19 orphanages just in Kabul.
Bangladesh
"There is no statistics on the actual number of children in welfare institutions in Bangladesh The Department of Social Services, under the Ministry of Social Welfare, has a major program called Child Welfare and Child Development in order to provide access to food, shelter, basic education, health services and other basic opportunities for poor children. "(The following figures mention capacity only, not the actual number of orphans today.)
9,500 - State institutions 250 - babies in three available "baby homes" 400 - Inappropriate Children Rehabilitation Center 100 - Vocational Training Center for Orphans and Poor Children 1,400 - Five-five Welfare and Rehabilitation Program for Children with Disability
Private welfare institutions are generally known as orphanages and madrassas. Authorities from most orphanages are more concerned with religion and religious studies. One example follows: 400 - Approximately - Nawab Sir Salimullah Muslim Orphanage. Maldives
Orphans, Children (0-17 years) to be orphaned because all causes, 2010, estimate 51.
India
India is in the top 10 and also has an enormous number of orphans and a poor child population. An orphanage operated by the state is generally known as a teenage home. In addition there are a large number of privately run orphanages scattered to thousands spread throughout the country. The area is run by various faiths, religious groups, citizens, citizen groups, NGOs, etc.
While some of these places try to put children to adoption, most only care and educate them until they are at the age of majority of the law and help put them back on their feet. Leading organizations in this field include BOYS, SOS children's village, etc.
There are particularly scandals relating to adoption. Because government regulations limit funds unless there are certain inhabitants, some orphanages ensure the population remains high at the cost of adoption.
East and Southeast Asia
Taiwan
The number of orphanages and orphanages dropped dramatically from 15 institutions and 2,216 people in 1971 to 9 institutions and 638 by the end of 2001.
Thai
There are still a large number of NGOs and informal orphanages in Thailand, especially in Northern Thailand near the border of Laos and Myanmar, for example around Chiang Rai. Very few of the children in these companies are orphaned, most of whom have living parents. They attract funds from well-meaning tourists. Often protecting children from trafficking/harassment is quoted but the names and photographs of children are published in marketing materials to attract more funds. The fact is that the safest neighborhood for children is almost always with their parents or in their village with family connections where strangers are rarely seen and immediately recognized. Very few of these orphanages, go so far as to kidnap or forcibly transfer children from their homes, often across borders in Myanmar. Parents in local hill tribes can be encouraged to "buy a place" in an orphanage for an enormous amount, being told that their child will have a better future. Some children's homes claim to always try to repatriate children with their families, but local managers & amp; the home director does not know such procedures or processes.
South Korea
"There are now 17,000 children in public orphanages across the country and countless numbers in private institutions."
Cambodia
There are many NGOs focusing their efforts on helping Cambodian orphans: one group, Orphans, built 47 orphanages that accommodate more than 1,500 children in a three-year period. The total number of orphans is much higher, but it is not known: "There are no accurate figures available about how many orphans in Cambodia." A charity named "Cambodian CHOICE" is run by expatriates based in the capital Phnom Penh; it helps support people who are very poor and homeless and help families stay together rather than allowing their children to be put into an orphanage where they can be exploited.
China
"There are currently 50,000 children in Chinese orphanages, while the number of abandoned children shows no signs of deceleration, official figures show that fewer than 20,000 Chinese orphans are now in institutional care." Official Chinese records fail to explain the vast majority of abandoned babies and children in the country, only a small proportion of them are in any state-recognized form. The latest figures given seem very low for a country with a population of 1.2 billion. Even if it is accurate, however, the existence of a large majority of Chinese orphan children will still be a complete mystery, leaving important questions about the nation's child welfare system unanswered and showing that the real scope of the disaster that has befallen the children Unwanted China may be much larger than the evidence in this report document.
Laos
"It says that there are 20,000 orphans in Laos, there are only three orphanages across the country that provide a place for a total of 1,000 of these children." Without title. By Anneli Dahlbom One of the largest orphanages in Laos is in the town of Phonsavan. This is S.O.S. orphanages and there are more than 120 orphans living in the facility.
Middle East and North Africa
Egypt
"The orphanage [Mosques of Charity] houses about 120 children in Giza, Menoufiya and Qalyubiya." "We [Dar Al-Iwaa] provide free education and accommodation for over 200 girls and boys." "Dar Al-Mu'assassa Al-Iwaa'iya (Shelter Association), a government association affiliated with the Ministry of Social Affairs, was established in 1992. This house houses about 44 children." There are also 192 children in The Awlady, 30 at the Sayeda Zeinab orphanage, and 300 at the Children's Orphanage.
Note: There are about 185 orphanages in Egypt. The above information is taken from the following article: "Other Family" by Amany Abdel-Moneim. Al-Ahram Weekly (5/1999). "Ramadan carries charity for Egyptian orphans". Shanghai Star (December 13, 2001). "A Child by Any Other Name" by RÃÆ' Â © hab El-Bakry. Egypt Today (11/2001).
Orphanage Project in Egypt-- www.littlestlamb.org
Sudan
There is still at least one orphanage in Sudan despite efforts have been made to close it
Bahrain
The "Royal Charity Organization" is a charity organization of the Bahrain government founded in 2001 by King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah to sponsor all orphans and orphans of the helpless Bahrain. Since then nearly 7,000 Bahraini families have been given monthly payments, annual school bags, and a number of university scholarships. Graduation ceremonies, various social and educational activities, and occasional contests are held annually by organizations for the benefit of orphans and widows sponsored by organizations.
Iraq
UNICEF maintains the same number today. "While the number of state homes for orphans all over Iraq was 25 in 1990 (serving 1,190 children), both the number of homes and the number of beneficiaries has declined, and the quality of services has also declined."
A 1999 study by UNICEF "recommended redeveloping national capacity for orphan rehabilitation." The new project "will benefit 1,190 children placed in orphanages."
Palestinian Territories
"In 1999, the number of children living in orphanages witnessed a substantial decline compared to 1998. This number decreased from 1,980 to 1,714 orphans, due to the reintegration policies of children in their households adopted by the Ministry of Social Affairs. "
Former Soviet Union
In post-Soviet countries, orphanages are better known as "children's homes" (> ?????? e ??? a ). After reaching school age, all children register in the internats (> ????? - ???????? ) (pesantren).
Russian
More than 700,000 orphans live in Russia, increasing at a rate of 113,000 per year. UNICEF estimates that 95% of these children are "social orphans," meaning that they have at least one living parent who has handed them over to the state. In 2011 the Russian authorities enrolled 88,522 children who were orphaned that year (down from 114,715 in 2009).
There are several web pages for Russian orphanages in English, such as the St Nicholas Orphanage in Siberia, or the Alapaevsk orphanage in the Ural. "Out of a total of over 600,000 children classified as 'without parental care' (most of them living with relatives and other supporters), as many as a third live in institutions."
In 2011, there were 1344 institutions for orphans in Russia, including 1094 orphanages ("children's homes") and 207 special orphanages for children with serious health problems.
Azerbaijan
"Many children are left out because of extreme poverty and harsh living conditions Some may be raised by family members or neighbors but the majority live in a crowded orphanage until the age of fifteen when they are sent into society to earn a living for themselves."
Belarus
Total forecast - 1,773 (1993 statistics for "all types of orphanages")
Kyrgyzstan
Partial information: 85 - Ivanovka Orphanage
Tajikistan
"No one can tell how many children are alone in the republic, about 9,000 are in the internat and in the orphanage."
Ukraine
103,000 Of this amount about 80 percent are described as "social orphans", because parents are too poor, rude, or too addicted to drugs or alcohol to raise them.
Since 2012 the number of children adopted by foreigners has gradually diminished. From about two thousand in 2012 to about two hundred by 2016. A little over a thousand children were adopted by Ukraine in 2016.
Other information:
- thousands - Zaporizhia Oblast.
- 150 - The Kiev Infant Orphanage
- 30 - Beregena Orphanage
- 120 - Invalid Domestic Orphan
Uzbekistan
Partial Information: 80 - Takhtakupar Orphanage
Oceania
Australia
The orphanages in Australia mostly closed after World War II and until the 1970s. Children are mainly placed under care. Notable former orphanages include the Melbourne Orphanage and the Orphanage St. John in Goulburn, New South Wales.
Indonesia
There is no verifiable information for the actual number of children in the orphanage. The number of orphaned and abandoned children is about 500,000.
Fiji
Orphans, children (0-17 years) are orphaned because all causes, 2005, estimate 25,000
North America and the Caribbean
Haiti
Haitian child care professionals and expatriates are careful to explain that Haitian orphanages and children's homes are not orphanages in the North American sense, but instead of shelter for vulnerable children, often children whose parents are poor as well as those left behind. , ignored or misused by the family guardian. Whether the number of children or the number of institutions is officially known, but Chambre de L'Enfance Necessiteusse Haitienne (CENH) shows that they have received requests for help from nearly 200 orphanages from across the country for over 200,000 children. While not all are orphans, many are vulnerable or from vulnerable families who "hope to increase their chances of children by sending them to an orphanage." Catholic Relief Services provides assistance to 120 orphanages with 9,000 children in Ouest, Sud, Sud-Est and Grand'Anse, but these only include orphanages that meet their criteria. They estimate receiving ten requests per week for help from an orphanage and a children's home, but some of them are repeated requests. "
In 2007, UNICEF estimates there are 380,000 orphans in Haiti, which have a population of more than 9 million, according to the CIA World Factbook. However, since the January 2010 earthquake, the number of orphans has skyrocketed, and the living conditions of the orphans have deteriorated seriously. Official numbers are hard to find due to the general state of chaos in the country.
Mexico
"... at least 10,000 Mexican children live in orphanages and mostly live in unregistered charity homes"
- Mexican Orphanage
- Mazatlan Mexico Orphanage
- Casa Hogar Jeruel: The Orphanage in Chihuahua City, Mexico
United States
Some private orphanages still exist in the United States apart from the government's child protection services process. After World War II, most orphanages in the US began to close or switch to boarding schools or different types of group homes. Over the last few decades, orphanages in the US have been replaced with smaller institutions that try to provide home or boarding schools. Most of the children who will be in an orphanage are in a residential care center (RTC), a children's care community in housing, or with a host family. Adopting from RTC, group homes, or host families does not need to work with adoption agencies, and in many areas, encouraging to adopt is highly recommended.
Central and South America
Guatemala
"... there are currently about 20,000 children in the orphanage."
Peru
Casa Hoger Lamedas Pampa, in Huanaco.
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