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Orphanages in sentence

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Across Europe and Central Asia, approximately one million children live in large residential institutions, usually known as orphanages.
Most people imagine orphanages as a benign environment that care for children.
If we know people who are planning to support orphanages, we should convince them to support family services instead.
She has also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics.
So I visited some orphanages and donated some clothes and books and some money to help the kids that I met.
But one of the orphanages I visited was desperately poor.
Since 2005, the number of orphanages in Cambodia has risen by 75 percent, and the number of children living in Cambodian orphanages has nearly doubled, despite the fact that the vast majority of children living in these orphanages are not orphans in the traditional sense.
So if the vast majority of children living in orphanages are not orphans, then the term "orphanage" is really just a euphemistic name for a residential care institution.
We don't have orphanages in Australia, the USA, the UK anymore, and for a very good reason: one study has shown that young adults raised in institutions are 10 times more likely to fall into sex work than their peers, 40 times more likely to have a criminal record, and 500 times more likely to take their own lives.
There are an estimated eight million children around the world living in institutions like orphanages, despite the fact that around 80 percent of them are not orphans.
Of the 600 so-called orphanages in Nepal, over 90 percent of them are located in the most popular tourist hotspots.
By redirecting our support and our donations away from orphanages and residential care institutions towards organizations that are committed to keeping children in families.
In six years now, we have four schools, one junior college, 1,100 children coming from 28 slums and four orphanages.
Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages.
I DO NOT recommend this movie to any family that has an adopted child; it displays adoption, orphanages and adults badly--and in the end, even though they win the game--the dog that the boy bonded with has to leave--and this is too much.
Resources at the orphanages are limited, and many of the children there do not live to their fifth birthday.
Likewise, with tens of thousands of street children entirely dependent for food on what they could scavenge or steal, the later Victorians established systems of orphanages.
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III recently stated that, since 2011, over 1,000 Christians have been killed and more than 40 churches and other Christian institutions (schools, orphanages, and care homes) have been damaged or destroyed.
Poverty runs rampant, orphanages overflow with abandoned children, countless packs of wild dogs roam the streets.
The Zakat Committee (Islamic tithe) was in charge of funding and administering orphanages, support of widows, relief work, and free health clinics and other community facilities.