BUCHAREST, Romania – Soft toys on the beds and posters on the walls. No more than three children to a room. One of the girls living in the four-bedroom house gushes about getting makeup for her ...

Michael D'Antonio's last story for the magazine was about a man who claims to be the Lindbergh baby. Black swallowtail butterflies flutter up from tall grass as Richard McKenzie walks, smiling, beside ...

Tina Rosenberg, a former editorial writer for the New York Times, has sought to convince “volunteer tourists” from wealthy countries that when they work in orphanages in low-income African and Latin ...

One of the first things you notice when you walk into the Tam Binh orphanage’s reception area is a shrine on the backwall with a large, gold-colored bust of Ho Chi Minh, communist Vietnam’s founding ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia -- Andrei was on his way to a job interview in the Russian city of Novosibirsk when panic set in. The minibus he was hoping would take him there wasn't moving, and Andrei, who ...

Bucharest, Romania — Soft toys on the beds and posters on the walls. No more than three children to a room. One of the girls living in the four-bedroom house gushes about getting makeup for her ...

In Uganda, very little in life is guaranteed for people who live there, including being able to obtain an education. "There is no free education here in Uganda," said Betty Nansiri, a team leader for ...

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Knowingly clumsy Bollywood re-creations add significant flavor to this episodic film about an Afghan teen’s time in a Kabul orphanage just before the Soviet withdrawal. Amusing, at times poignant ...

There's no precise global tally of children living in orphanages. UNICEF's latest estimate is 2.7 million, but the agency says many countries don't accurately count children in privately run ...