Orphanage

Lillian’s Mom said with tears running down her face as all Lillian's other siblings continued sobbing. “So,” her Mom said with hesitation looking at her Dad, “because we want the best for all of you…..we are going to have to send one of you to an orphanage.” This is a joke…

any parents. With the spread of HIV/AIDS, family members also died from it, so the children in Rwanda became orphans. Some orphans are placed in extended families or fostering households. If they did not have anyone, then they were placed in the orphanages. Being an orphan in Rwanda came from the Rwandan genocide and the spread of HIV/AIDS, and therefore the children lived in poverty, faced risks including child labor, and did not have the basic needs such as healthcare, education and nutrition.…

her, love her, and especially cook with her. She adores cooking, and that's what brings the dull and dark place to live, because without that fresh baked smell, the place would smell like perfume and stinky cheese all coming from one part of the orphanage, which is the headmistress’ office. The headmistress is a skinny and frail lady that likes to get stuff done. She puts orphans on the spot just to make her feel good about herself and even punished Macie, the sweet…

"For you a thousand times over" (Hosseini, 391) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about Amir’s troubled childhood and longing for love that leads him, his half-brother – Hassan, and their father to have the constant need of sacrificing. Amir lost his mother at birth and was raised by Baba, his father, along with the help of Baba’s best friend, Rahim Khan, and caretaker Ali. While raising Amir, Baba felt the need of sacrificing himself to feel selfless and a sense of goodness, as he…

She may not have been happy as to how the whole situation with her family occurred, but when looking through the paperwork, she realized how hard her adoptive parents worked to adopt her, and she appreciated that. Even though meeting her sister and learning about her life did not go as she imagined, she finally got the closure she wanted and needed. There are, however, less understanding endings to finding birth parents. Lisa Lutz’s article “I Found My Biological Parents, and Wish I Hadn’t”…

Gonzalo Rodriguez is a young boy who grew up to be the only child. Gonzalo and his mother lived in poverty all their life. Gonzalo's father, Fernando Rodriguez, abandoned the family when Gonzalo was 5 years old. Fernando could not face the fact that him and his family are exceedingly poor. He promised Gonzalo's mother, Catalina Rodriguez, the world and he could never provide that. He felt like he couldn't contribute anything and that people should not rely on him so he left and never came back. …

reason one may consider adoption is because there are children in waiting, which means that there are children and teens who are in need of a family that will keep them forever. Children in waiting can include children in a foster care system or orphanages. In 2016, about 428,000 children were in foster care in the United states on any given day. In 2015, more than 62,000 children’s parents had lost their…

she suffered in orphanages and with the adoption process, due to the fact that she was fair skinned aboriginal girl in Australia (Terszak, M. (2015). Since our docudrama revolves around the concept of a black orphan child, the next step in our research process was to look out for the lead character. This involved a lot of research on different orphanages of Pakistan. The few foundations which were contacted for this purpose included SOS Children’s Villages, Edhi Homes & Orphanages, Sirt ul…

on my head started to peel off by the time i was 3 my entire skull was reviled.My mom hated me so she dropped my off at an orphanage and thats where i stayed for many years. Every one else avoids me , unless there coming to bully me .One day when the older kids were coming to pick on me they called me names like "Skully". One day there was a skeleton arriving in the orphanage his name was Sans he came up to me and wanted me to shake his hand so i did and a farting noise came out . I tried to…

Being adopted. That is something that will forever define me. I was born in the province Jiangxi, China and left at an orphanage, forced into a circumstance where I did not get enough nutrition, attention, or love. Any interaction with humans were limited to only once, maybe twice, a day, not even enough for any connection. Once I was adopted and old enough to realize the amount of notice, tenderness, and warmth my mother brought to me compared to what I would have received, an undying…