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And there were lots of widows and orphans, people like that, who needed a foster home.
A lot of children are orphans.
So unfortunately, this orphan spends most of his time in storage, along with quite a number of other orphans, some of them some beautiful paintings.
No to killing, in this case no to killing men of religion, because Sheikh Ahmed Adina Refaat was shot on December 16th, during a demonstration, leaving behind three orphans and a widow.
But why are there so many orphans in Europe when there hasn't been a great deal of war or disaster in recent years?
Many other orphans survived this way, or worse.
Luanda, it was full of land mine victims who were struggling to survive on the streets and war orphans living in sewers under the streets, and a tiny, very wealthy elite who gossiped about shopping trips to Brazil and Portugal.
She's one of 13,000 orphans and vulnerable children who are assisted by a charity that I support.
He helped out the war orphans.
Once the forensics and doctors and lawyers are done with these objects, they become orphans of the narrative.
Most of the students were orphans.
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?
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.
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.
Some had been abused, others were orphans, and some came from families that are very traditional, that had never sent any girl to school.
There were a lot of orphans made this day, and here's a dead body being brought out.
11 million AIDS orphans in Africa, 20 million by the end of the decade.
And I had to admit: I can't think of the last time I thought of widows and orphans.
After the fall of Ceausescu, I went to Romania and discovered a kind of gulag of children, where thousands of orphans were being kept in medieval conditions.
I tell her story to everyone because she represents one of millions of HIV/AIDS orphans.
Gloria Grahame runs the kind of orphanage where discipline is imparted with a meat cleaver, orphans are hung on meat hooks to punish them and the bodies are kept in the deep freeze so that they can be brought out for when social services call.
That the orphanage is strapped for cash we know because Gloria puts all the orphans to work, and also because there don't seem to be enough clothes to go round - especially for the older nubile female orphans (age range appears to be 12 - 30 ish).
One moment it's making fun of Latin Americans, American tourists and banana republics in general, the other it wants to be touching, with burned villages and orphans.
The most affected in this reality is the children usually left orphans, or abandoned by their poor parents have to make it in a "dog eat dog" society many times falling into the gap of delinquency, prostitution and crime.
Why would a nun (she sure seemed nice!) hand over 20 orphans to a madman?
In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies in France.
Three orphans (Carrie, Charles and Paul) are sent to live with Miss Price (Angela Lansbury).
Which starts with three orphans, Sho, his brother Shinji and their friend Toshi, They're poor children's, living on the street, but one day they succeeded to steal a bag full of money, and then their able to live on, to buy a house, and their life seems to become much better.
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