"We are now trying to run the place with very little money and little food." Ahmad Khalil Mayan, the program director at a large Kabul orphanage, is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he ...

A bedroom in an orphanage that houses orphaned and abandoned children in the Syrian capital Damascus. These orphanages have faced the wrath of Syrians since the Assad regime was toppled in early ...

The ending of A Letter to My Youth shows how a group of orphanage children unknowingly save their caretaker from suicide, ...

(RNS) — This time of year, when we send our kids back to school, is an exciting, albeit nerve-wracking, time. We entrust our children and their futures to teachers each year with the understanding ...

Hundreds of children have been evacuated from Jewish orphanages throughout Ukraine –with rabbis and volunteers desperately loading kids onto transport buses as Russian bombs and missiles rain down on ...

Russian positions are just across the Dnipro River and Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, is under regular attack. Like many Ukrainians during this war, Olena prefers not to share her last name. She ...

Editor’s Note: Michelle Oliel is a Canadian human rights lawyer. She is the deputy director of the Lori E. Talsky Center for Human Rights of Woman and Children at Michigan State University College of ...

Children at Mama Ngina Children's home in Kisumu. Children right experts say most children in such homes are not orphans. [File, Standard] Millions of children around the world live in orphanages, but ...

Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018, Syrian security forces dragged a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, Hiba, from their home and detained them. The mother, Sukayna Jebawi, says that they were ...