An orphanage is 

a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the

care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their
biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusive.
It helps you improve your skills. One child can teach or interact with you so much that it is
amazing. Through the lessons you learn at orphanages and activities like cooking and
teaching, you better understand the world and learn to see it from different perspectives.
The Orphan has a backstory defined by trauma, abandonment, abuse, or neglect. They
are typically positioned as an outsider, forced to grow up quickly and fend for
themselves. Also known as the Realist, the Orphan tends to take a pessimistic view of the
world.

1. 1 – Pray for an Orphan. ...

2. 2 – Send a Box of Love to Orphans. ...
3. 3 – Share Their Story. ...
4. 4 – Become a Host Family. ...
5. 5 – Help Families Stay Together. ...
6. 6 – Give Your Financial Support. ...
7. 7 – Sponsor A Family Ready To Adopt. ...
8. 8 – Consider Foster Care!
Since then, U.S. orphanages have been replaced by modern boarding schools, residential
treatment centers and group homes, though foster care remains the most common form
of support for children who are waiting for adoption or reunification with their families.
The narratives with the participants revealed that they live in a socially depressed
environment and are subjected to extreme poverty characterised by frequent hunger.
Furthermore, they do not enjoy family support and when they live with their extended
families, they experience ill treatment and unsympathetic gestures.
They Can Lack Proper Training, Affection, And Positive Energy. One of the major issues
faced by orphans is a lack of affection, which can lead to attachment issues and low self-
esteem. Lack of education and a monitored environment can lead to development issues in
kids due to shortcomings on the caretakers' end.
Poor or orphaned children are unable to get a chance to learn. They often drop out of school
to help provide for themselves or their family, even at an early age. Without an education,
the children will be subject to a life of extreme poverty and, at times, may be forced
into bonded labor.
This Act ensures that orphans are not deprived of their fundamental right to free and
compulsory education. As it is a requisite for orphanages to provide education, the Board of
Control can inspect whether these institutions keep up with it and is empowered to revoke
their certificate if they don't.
OBJECTIVE:

The main objective of the orphanage is to create a positive loving environment in

which the often abandoned and neglected children feel at home and cared for, as
a basis for social and professional development. A significant effort is invested in
re-socializing the children after they come in. Often there is initial mistrust against
adults due to abuse, and also a normal social framework has not been built in
their early childhood. Apart from the practical perspective, this is also where the
care for their vegetable garden and life-stock plays an important role. In addition
all children are significantly behind their age groups with respect to schooling and
education.
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An orphanage is an institution dedicated to caring for children who have lost their parents,
or for children believed to be abused, abandoned, or generally neglected. Largely seen as an
inferior alternative to foster care and adoption, orphanages may be privately or publicly
funded, or may be run by religious organizations. An orphan is a person, typically a child,
who has lost both parents. Historically, certain birth parents were often pressured or forced
to give up their children to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or
into poor families. An obligation of support is often imposed upon parents or grandparents
under nearly every system of law; however natural sympathy and a willingness to support the
common good often allow for the care of orphans to become a public duty.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million orphans were
reported throughout the world; this number includes all children internally
displaced, refugees of conflicts and natural disasters, mandated child soldiers, those
enrolled in orphanage institutions, and those estimated to be homeless, living on the
streets. While efforts to improve the conditions in orphanages are important, the
greater effort has moved to finding stable homes for children in such situations,
where they may have the chance to experience the love of family despite their tragic
past.

History

The Moscow Orphanage, founded in 1763.

In Biblical times, small communities were deemed responsible for the care of the
fatherless, the stranger, and the widow by sharing with them the excess fruits of their
harvests. Under early Roman law, no provisions were made for either widow or
orphan, though early Athenians viewed such duties as economic and patriotic; the
state educated all children of citizens killed in battle until the age of 18.

Christian missionaries established various relief agencies for the care of orphaned or

abandoned children; workers founded children’s hospitals and asylums throughout
the East. Under Justinian, the care of orphans was directed toward the Church. It
became the duty of various church officials to raise, educate, and establish orphaned
children both of the male and female sex.

During the Middle Ages, the care of orphaned children became the responsibility
of monasteries. Under monastery care, orphaned children were provided with both
shelter and education in academics and trades. Many orphanages practiced some
form of "binding-out" in which children, as soon as they were old enough, were
given as apprentices to households. This would ensure both their financial support
and their learning of a useful trade.

Throughout Great Britain, between the years of 1855 and 1898, more than fifty-one
houses of Sisters of Charity were established to serve the orphan population of
Northern Europe. Under subsequent English Poor Laws, the care of poor, abandoned,
or orphaned children remained the responsibility of the Church; parishes relied on
systems of apprenticeship, indentured service, or workhouses to aid in the influx of
homeless children and their growing dependence on the state. The exposure of such
systems by early social reformers and artists as brutal boarding establishments led to
drastic reforms of Britain’s social welfare system. Under Queen Victoria, numerous
private orphanage asylums were created that maintained significantly improved
conditions.

In Colonial America, poor, abandoned, or orphaned children became the

responsibility of the local town or county. This responsibility was later shifted to
almshouses, establishments created solely for the care of society’s unfortunate. The
colonies also made significant use of indentured services. In 1875, the state of New
York began placing poor, abandoned, or orphaned children into the custody of
established families or newly opened orphan asylums. Over time, this system of
social care would develop and expand, eventually shaping the institutional
orphanages that are relied upon today.

The effective management of orphanage institutions requires innovative solutions to

many complex problems that arise from a child’s abandonment or desertion. In many
instances, orphaned children are regularly assessed both physically and mentally in
order to gauge their progress in social adaptation. Successful orphanages aim to
provide adequate goods and services to their inhabitants; often times orphanages
provide both education and healthcare for the children. In most circumstances,
institutional buildings must be safe and well equipped with adequate sanitation, and
must provide a social environment thoroughly conducive to health.
Many orphanages follow similar methodologies in the effective upbringing of
orphaned children. One common method employed by many orphanages is to
create or emplace orphaned children with an environment of “family life.” This can be
accomplished by “boarding-out,” or “placing-out.” The boarding-out of an orphaned
child involves the payment of the orphanage institution to a family who has agreed
to house the orphaned child or children for a temporary period of time. Such tactics
originated under English Poor Law and were designed as an alternative option to
enrollment in a poorhouse. A major weakness to the boarding-out methodology is
the monetary incentive it poses; orphanages often face the danger of profit-seeking
amongst those offering to care for an orphaned child.

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