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    My experience volunteering at an orphanage in Korea taught me a lot about the Korean culture, the emotional trauma of an orphan, and the gratification of helping others. The learning experience created a great bond and understanding of the children. I was in the Beta club, we had to go to the Korean orphanage in order to get our community service hours, for a week. This orphanage was located at a Catholic church by owners Mrs. Lee and Mr. Sung. They spoke English very well and told us…

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    volunteering experience at an orphanage had changed my insights of life. I was inspired to act because though they lack of family love, but they were strong. I felt the need to support them since I was fortunate enough to be born in a loving family. As there are so many orphanages around my area, they always need funding to support. With the help of my parents and my effort, I started to set up donation events every year on my birthday. My volunteering experience at an orphanage in my city of…

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    She still kept her head up. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton created the first orphanage in the USA, used persisting overcome the deaths of most of her family, and has saved millions of orphans to this day, while also preserving her husband’s legacy. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton created the first orphanage in the USA. After her husband Alexander Hamilton died, she used the little money she had left to found multiple orphanages. “Though Elizabeth spent her widowhood in poverty, she was active in…

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    The Honduras Mission Trip

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    Honduras Mission Trip This past August I had the opportunity to attend a mission trip to an orphanage in Honduras. The orphanage is named Emmanuel. It is home to over five hundred children on average. I traveled with a local church from Clay County Alabama. We stayed for an entire week and completed many projects while also spending quality time with the children. This trip would fall under the topic of multiculturalism. The culture of Honduras is much different than the culture of the…

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    Himat’s father struggled through a rare disease. The result ended in death for the lack of affectual antidotes. His mother, prior to this circumstance, died in world war two. Himat, with no other housing options for an 11 year old boy, the orphanage he traveled. Subdued, and walking on the side of the K-43 Highway, Himat sobbed. Himat thought he could overfill a pool faster than the rain could. Thunder cracked like a massive cannon exploding reminding Himat of his mother. Himat jumped, then…

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    George Muller’s work is an excellent example of an effort to serve others that is motivated by faith. Four aspects of his ministry are who was involved in starting it, how it progressed, and its outcome. First, who was involved in starting the orphanage? It originally started with just George Muller and his wife, Marry Groves. They started by renovating their rented house in Bristol to accommodate 30 girls. It soon spread to three more houses on the same street, with some housing boys. Next, how…

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    Sohrab In The Kite Runner

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    by the Taliban. Also at the very end of the book Sohrab was told he was going to be put back into an orphanage for 2 years until Amir could get his parents death certificate. This mentally destroyed him to the point where he tried to kill himself. Sohrab also said he felt dirty and unloved and for that, he would spend hours scrubbing himself in the bathtub. The abuse that occurred in the orphanage was so bad that Sohrab went speechless for a year. He was also completely devastated about what he…

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    left his mother, he disappeared without saying anything. Katy was all alone, left with no money and a child to raise in a house which rent had to be paid monthly. She loved Louis too much to take him to an orphanage, but there were no more options left. She would have brought louis to the orphanage if it wasn’t for her brother to stop her. Simon Atwood worked for the government and had overheard some things about offering money to people who would provide their kids to experimentation with…

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    The story begins in the 1940’s at an orphanage in St. Cloud. Dr. Larch is not only the director of the orphanage, but is a doctor in obstetrics and secretly an abortionist, which at the time is illegal. These two services can coexist because one brings life into the world, whether it’s wanted or not, and the other takes life from the world, whether it’s wanted or not. In the movie, Dr. Larch is an abortionist and has taught Homer how to perform this procedure. Homer does not agree with this…

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    Today they are trying to close the Rwanda Genocide orphanages. In 2012, the Rwandan government announced that by the end of 2014 all of the orphanages would be closed, so that every child has the right to grow up in a family. The closure deadline was extended to December 2014 and it has still yet to be made. Many of the children have found themselves placed with relatives who do not want them or cannot afford to look after them. There has been organizations that have offered families money to…

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