orphanage
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Rather than the Virgin Mary, the money "should be invested in a hospital or orphanage," one married couple from Sierpce, some 30 kilometres from the statue, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
When Korkejian’s mother was 7, her own mother placed her in an orphanage on the Lebanese coast to protect her from her father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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
Eleven-year-old Margot “Meg” Lefleur, one of the two narrators of Kathryn Stockett’s historical novel “The Calamity Club,” has been a resident of an orphanage in Oxford, Miss., since 1931—two miserable years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Mabinty Suma and I were thrilled to see that it had a real bed, just like the one that Papa Andrew had used at the orphanage.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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
He said he dipped into personal savings to pay for employees’ salaries in Uganda and donations to orphanages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2025
He had bills due, five full-time employees to pay and money that was supposed to go to the orphanages for food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2025
In Islam, waqf is a charitable or religious donation made by Muslims to mosques, madrassas or orphanages.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
Then they asked the Carabinieri, the hospitals, and the orphanages.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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