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Kansas Girl, 7, Makes Art for Charity, Builds Orphanages With Her Profits. Isabelle Redford raised more than $10,000 to built an orphanage in Haiti. By ABC News. July 10, 2009, 4:27 PM.
Michael Mertz and McKenzie Maher sold the former Marks Nathan Orphanage and 1239 N. Wood Street Gallery for $4.85 million on Feb. 20. That’s about 57% of the $8.45 million they were asking when ...
An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.
A Russian police officer detains a woman holding a poster that reads "I do not want to kill anyone" during a rally against the invasion of Ukraine in Moscow on March 6, 2022.
CAIRO. In the days after war erupted in Khartoum, Dr Abeer Abdullah rushed between rooms at Sudan’s largest orphanage, trying to care for hundreds of babies and toddlers as the fighting kept all ...
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Reuters journalist Maggie Michael about the deaths of at least 50 children at a state-run orphanage in Sudan since fighting began weeks ago in Khartoum.
A lawyer for the American founder of a Haitian orphanage who has been charged with sexual abuse revealed that his client was investigated but not charged by a grand jury about a decade ago. The ...
The loving father of a Russian girl aged 13 who drew a 'No to War' picture at school was today sentenced to two years in a harsh penal colony.
The Mount Pleasant Home for Destitute Children had a shorter life. Munro transferred ownership of the orphanage to the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1911, and the home burned down in 1920.
The orphanage was first built in 1899 to house the children of Scottish sailors killed at sea. But years later it stands abandoned and has now been put on the market for £2.45million ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Local preschoolers put on their bunny ears on Monday to 'Hop for Hope' and raise money for an orphanage in Zimbabwe. Dutilh Preschool in Cranberry Township held the bunny ...
The Halifax-area building sat empty for many years following the orphanage’s closure in 1978 until a local Black-led charity, Akoma Holdings Inc., launched a restoration effort in 2016.