Orphanage in sentence

102 examples of Orphanage in a sentence

Unable to care for me, my birth mother left me at an orphanage.

Children at this Ukrainian orphanage are between the ages of six and 16.

In a 12-month period when I was at the orphanage, only one child had been adopted.

Children have to leave the orphanage at age 16, despite the fact that there's often nowhere for them to go.

It's commonly reported in Ukraine that children, when leaving the orphanage are targeted for human trafficking, child pornography and prostitution.

There's an insufficient supply of beds at the orphanage and not enough warm clothing.

And the director listed the orphanage's most urgent needs as an industrial size washing machine and dryer, four vacuum cleaners, two computers, a video projector, a copy machine, winter shoes and a dentist's drill.

This photograph, which I took at the orphanage of one of the classrooms, shows a sign which I had translated when I got home.

But if I were to go to the state of Michigan today, and try to adopt a young person who is in an orphanage, I would be disqualified for only one reason: because I'm gay.

Housing 550 babies, this was Ceausescu's show orphanage, and so I'd been told the conditions were much better.

Soon, we hope, Masa will be reunited with him in Sweden, and until then, she's being cared for in a beautiful orphanage in Athens.

There are a million angry-boy-on-a-bike stories and we can't afford to ignore them simply because we don't like their protagonists or because that's not the kid that we would bring home with us from the orphanage.

These are some photos of me volunteering in a Cambodian orphanage in 2006.

I fund-raised in Australia and returned to Cambodia the following year to volunteer at the orphanage for a few months.

But over the course of the next year, I came to discover that this orphanage that I had been supporting was terribly corrupt.

The director had been embezzling every cent donated to the orphanage, and in my absence, the children were suffering such gross neglect that they were forced to catch mice to feed themselves.

So I worked with a local team and the local authorities to set up a new orphanage and rescue the kids to give them a safe new home.

As I adjusted to my new life running an orphanage in Cambodia, (Khmer) I learned to speak Khmer fluently, which means that I learned to speak the Khmer language fluently.

Most of the children we had removed from the orphanage were not, in fact, orphans at all.

So why were these children living in an orphanage when they weren't orphans?

I had to learn all of these lessons the hard way, after I had already set up an orphanage in Cambodia.

I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist.

I then set up my own orphanage and facilitated orphanage tourism in order to generate funds for my orphanage, before I knew better.

What I came to learn is that no matter how good my orphanage was, it was never going to give those kids what they really needed: their families.

The organization that I run today, the Cambodian Children's Trust, is no longer an orphanage.

But in 2006, when I first met her living in that corrupt and abusive orphanage, she had never been to school.

So, this is on the way down to the orphanage.

And he takes me into this room, closes the door and says, "I have 75 children here in the orphanage, and it's total bedlam."

And then she set up a work detail list of who cleaned the orphanage on what day."

And he said, "I don't know who raised her, but she's running the orphanage, and she's been here three days."

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