orphanage
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He’s joined a volunteer group to provide donations for an orphanage in the Mexican capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
The KWS has not commented on the allegation about the car park but said that the public had been consulted about the plan to constrict a new orphanage.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Instead of being cared for in the orphanage, the two children were adopted together in Denmark, like tens of thousands of others sent overseas in a state-sanctioned practice that lasted decades.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But instead, she learned that their mother had entrusted them to an orphanage while the family dealt with financial difficulties.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The shoes are too big—passed on from an older boy who died at the orphanage last month—but Reverend Hunt says I can’t go barefoot in the New World.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, Monroe had an unstable childhood spent between orphanages and foster homes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Flying in from New York, Johnson sometimes joined Sothea when he visited hospitals, government orphanages and families that lacked formula, medicine and clean water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Others said Sovann Komar moved them to orphanages that lacked the perks they had grown accustomed to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
In Islam, waqf is a charitable or religious donation made by Muslims to mosques, madrassas or orphanages.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
His wife, Galway Jane, followed him, and four of their six children had to be put into orphanages.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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