Sentences with phrase «unites orphaned children»

Cites research conducted by Tuck for the Selamta Family Project, a nonprofit that unites orphaned children and marginalized women in Ethiopia to provide stable homes.

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In the aftermath, each of the orphans currently still at the Children's Home had their adoption visas expedited by the United States.

RODS Racing is comprised of 40 superior athletes who will collectively compete in more than 224 marathons, triathlons and other events this year, raising money to find homes in the United States for orphaned children with Down syndrome who live in other parts of the world.

With a generous $ 50,000 donation from the IPC, RODS Racing was able to double the size of its team to more than 100 athletes who have each pledged to raise $ 1,000 to help find homes in the United States for orphaned children with Down syndrome.

The Orphan Train, a movement that relocated orphaned and abandoned children from large cities in the east to new homes in the west via railroad, took place in the United States between 1854 and 1929.

More than 13 million children have been orphaned by AIDS in Africa; UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS) predicts that by 2010 25 - 50 million African children under the age of 15 will be orphaned; in a dozen African countries, up to a quarter of the nation's children will be orphans.

Children's Home Societies were first established in the United States in the latter part of the 19th century to address the needs of increasing numbers of orphaned children, particularly in populous areas such as New YoChildren's Home Societies were first established in the United States in the latter part of the 19th century to address the needs of increasing numbers of orphaned children, particularly in populous areas such as New Yochildren, particularly in populous areas such as New York City.

All children must meet the definition of an orphan under U.S. law for you to bring him or her home back to the United States.

Although the prospective adoptive family is responsible to locate and petition the Family Court for Guardianship of a child on their own, your Primary Provider will be able to assist you by providing known orphanages and / or general guidance and information regarding such things as definitions of a legal orphan or information regarding the Pakistan placement process that complies with the United States laws and expectations.

United States laws and regulations require that any child placed into the home of a US citizen by an adoption or guardianship process is required to meet the definition of «orphan» according to the Immigration and Nationality Act.

«In the United States, orphaned children have resources and organizations designed to help them.