Orphanage
An orphanage is an institution that takes in and cares for orphans.[1] It can also mean the state of being an orphan.[1]
Historically it was very often the church or the state who cared for orphans. Children in orphanages may have suffered from child abuse or trauma from their parents.
Orphanage Media
Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice. The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.
Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow
Sofianlehto Orphanage from 1930 in Helsinki, Finland
St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia
Caring for orphans, by Dutch artist Jan de Bray, 1663
The Foundling Hospital. The building has been demolished.
A group of orphans at Crumpsall Workhouse in the 19th century
Thomas John Barnardo, the founder of the Barnardos Home for orphaned children.
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and his wife Maria Leopoldina visiting the Casa dos Expostos orphanage in Rio de Janeiro, 1826.
Scenes from Mgona, one of the poorest communities in Lilongwe, Malawi. AIDS-orphans play with a selfmade car. About 38,000 people live in Mgona, 20,000 of them are orphans.
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