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The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America

Guru Eric Kruk and his family , and friends visited 4 orphanages which had up to 112 children. Three of the orphanages were in Bandung , Indonesia , and the other was in Garut , Indonesia . The orphanage in Garut , Cecep Rahman and his family also attended the gathering at the orphanage. Donations were bags , praying clothes , school supplies, candy , toys, and donations given to the orphanages it’s self. The music is called NARA , and the album is -Unearthed, and the artist is ES Posthumus. Music is used for demonstration purposes only for Youtube. No copyright infringement intended. Made a mistake on the e-mail on the last orphanage , it should be psaa_kurnia_asih@yahoo.com

Children homes are foster homes for those underprivileged children who are orphans and homeless. These institutions are dedicated to the cause of homeless children. Orphanage for children provides housing to children who do not have parents or grandparents or in other words, any legal guardian to take care of them. These foster homes provide them with basic food and shelter. Although, the healthiest living condition for a child is to live with his family.

Today, those kids, who have been abandoned by their parents or kids whose parents have lost their parental rights are also called orphans. Given below are some of reasons that lead to kids becoming orphans, despite their parents being alive.

*Poor economic situation and poverty in the family
*Parental illness which may be mental or physical
*Drug or alcohol abuse by the parents
*Mental retardation of the parents or guardian
*Incarceration
*Termination of parental rights because of neglect or abuse. This may be a court ruling. 
*Complicated medical conditions that the family cannot care for and thus needs to abandon the child.

Though it must be very difficult for parents to abandon his child but circumstances of desperation and poverty are such that they are forced to resort to such extreme measures. Sometimes, a children’s orphanage is the only alternative for some of these unfortunate children.

Most of the children homes are either state or central government owned institutions. These are generally, non – profit organizations and are meant for the benefit of the society. So naturally, the level of care and comfort would vary from country to country depending on its financial situation. Most of these children homes have poor hygiene and nutritional environment.

Most orphan children at these children homes are subjected to abuse, but it is still better to have a shelter than to have none. This is a major problem and has been reported for many years now. Child abuse is physical or emotional mistreatment of a child. It can have many negative effects on the psychology of the child. There are mainly four types of child abuse – physical, sexual, psychological and neglect. The main reason cited for these abuses at children homes is poverty and under qualified staff. The resources are less in comparison to the number of children. This deprives the children of proper care.

Children facing physical torture are more likely to receive fractures and may develop the risk of cancer. They also develop psychiatric problems, depression and anxiety along with other developmental and dissociative symptoms. Some may suffer from abdominal, pelvic, or muscular pain with no identifiable reason at a later stage in their lives.

Today, many non – profit organization are dedicated to the work of relieving the orphan children from the misery of an orphanage. They are helping the orphanage for children in getting corporate sponsorships as well as in adoption.

Remember the shocking video of Romanian orphanages in the early nineties? Deprivation still haunts those young people who must now make their way in the world as adults with little preparation and no help.

One of the areas of volunteering Africa which gets a lot of good coverage and publicity is volunteer orphanage work. Often we see TV and movie celebrities with a babe in arms, or sports personality kicking a ball around a dirt pitch.

This is one of those times when all publicity is good publicity. The more people who are aware of the difficulties faced by orphans in Africa, the more help will arrive. Of course you can’t get much idea of the work with a two minute news clip, so what really happens at a volunteer orphanage placement?

In St Lucia, South Africa, there are large numbers of Zulu orphans who have lost their parents to HIV and AIDS. Education here isn’t just about reading and writing – important though that is – it’s also about making the next generation aware of the problems of these killer diseases so that hopefully their children won’t suffer the same fate.

Volunteer orphanage work here is also about maintaining the infrastructure. If you are an educator looking for a volunteer teaching assignment in Africa that’s great, but you are equally valuable if you are a bricklayer or decorator. It’s difficult to teach if you don’t have a classroom to do it in!

In Mozambique and Zambia the need is just as great – in fact anywhere in Africa that has children has a volunteer orphanage project that could benefit from your help. Even the stunning  island of Zanzibar has it’s share of children left without parents by AIDS and HIV. There is nowhere you can go that your help will not be highly valued.

And despite all the hardship and poverty, the children will greet you with smiles and laughter. They are bright and boisterous outside class, attentive and eager to learn within it. Working at a volunteer orphanage in Africa isn’t the kinds of thing that will get you down, far from it. The only thing you might struggle with are your facial muscles – from smiling all the time!

Some of the martial arts seminars we have done in Finland this year, raising money for children in need, have been leading up to this. In June 2009 I visited 4 orphanages in Malaysia to make donations of high nutrition foods, basic foods, educational material (maths, language and story books), money for building repair and re-equipping orphanages with materials. I received help from so many people for which I am eternally grateful. Many of those who helped were martial arts Masters of the indigenous South East Asian silat styles. I had the opportunity to train a few styles of silat arts while there as well as spend time with at a couple of the orphanages having fun with the kids and teaching them silat in a fun and productive manner. Orphanages in Malaysia depend a great deal on public support and it was nothing short of an honour to spend our time and money helping out as best we could. Kids that are supported in these children’s homes include orphans, street/homeless kids, children from problem homes and children whose parents cannot support them financially. This video is a short ‘memory’ of the orphanage work and silat training that I was involved with while over there. It also double up to raise incentive for other martial artists to get involved and join our seminars. Track: Tracy Chapman – Dreaming on a World

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has sparked a diplomatic row between Britain and Turkey with a documentary she filmed on state run orphanages in Turkey. The Turkish government is threatening the Duchess with legal action over the film which has just aired in Britain. The film is an expose of the conditions that disabled children are forced to endure in Turkish orphanages. But the Turkish Government has accused the Duchess of using the film to run a smear campaign against Turkey, just it is trying to join the European Union. In London, Stephanie Kennedy reports. STEPHANIE KENNEDY: Wearing a black wig and scarf, the undercover Duchess secretly filmed in some of Turkey’s orphanages for children with mental disabilities to see firsthand the conditions. (Extract from documentary) SARAH FERGUSON: But it is also the smell. It is that smell. It gets into your bones. REPORTER: Terribly overwhelming. SARAH FERGUSON: It was, wasn’t it? REPORTER: It really was overwhelming. SARAH FERGUSON: I think it was really important that we went into that place upstairs. It was just so degrading – the whole thing for these poor people. (End of extract) STEPHANIE KENNEDY: The documentary shows one boy who is kept in a box because he’s hyperactive. SARAH FERGUSON: And I saw children with suffering from Down Syndrome and other kinds of disabilities. They are fed on their backs and given no love and no support. There was one child when I was walking through the orphanage which was crawling on …

Horrible situation in Uzbekistan orphanages. Part of a documentary about cliniclowns training uzbek people to perform in hospitals.

I’m curious as to where orphans go to die in America. Is it in a regular orphanage?

I feel it’s set on me to work with orphans who are dying, and I’m wondering where they go to die, and how I can help. Are there already orphanages dedicated to making their last days comfortable?

Can we visit the orphanage our child is from? What should we know before we travel?