About Orphanage & Its History

What is Orphanage?

An orphanage is an institution devoted to the care of children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care for them. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children they become a ward of the state, and orphanages are a way of providing for their care and housing.

Orphange History:-

The first orphanages, called "orphanotrophia," were founded in the 1st century amid various alternative means of orphan support. Jewish law, for instance, prescribed care for the widow and orphan, and Athenian law supported all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen, and Plato (Laws, 927) says:—"Orphans should be placed under the care of public guardians. Men should have a fear of the loneliness of orphans and of the souls of their departed parents. A man should love the unfortunate orphan of whom he is guardian as if he were his own child. He should be as careful and as diligent in the management of the orphan's property as of his own or even more careful still."

Historically, certain birth parents were often pressured or forced to give up their children to orphanages: those of children born out of wedlock or into poor families; those with disabilities or of children born with disabilities; and those with girls born into patriarchial societies. Such practices are assumed to be quite rare in the modern Western world, thanks to improved social security and changed social attitudes, but remain in force in many other countries.

Since the 1950s, after a series of scandals involving the coercion of birth parents and abuse of orphans (notably at Georgia Tann's Tennessee Children's Home Society), the United States and other countries have moved to deinstitutionalize the care of vulnerable children—that is, close down orphanages in favor of foster care and accelerated adoption. Moreover, as it is no longer common for birth parents in Western countries to give up their children, and as far fewer people die of diseases or violence while their children are still young, the need to operate large orphanages has decreased. These factors have also resulted in a dramatic reduction of local orphans available for adoption in first-world countries, necessitating journeys by many would-be adoptive parents to orphanages in the Third World.

Today, the term orphanage has given way to softer language as "group home", "children's home", or "rehabilitation center". However, major charities are increasingly focusing their efforts on community-based care of orphans in order to keep them with extended family and communities. Orphanages are no longer common in the European community, and Romania in particular has struggled to reduce the visibility of its children's institutions to meet conditions of its entry into the European Union. In the United States, the largest remaining orphanage is the Bethesda Orphanage, founded in 1740 by George Whitefield.

About Street Children

I want to tell you what is the meaning of Street Children?

UNICEF has defined three types of street children: Street-Living, Street-Working, Street-Family.

1) Street Living Children: children who ran away from their families and live alone on the streets are comes in this category and lots of children comes under this category they ran from there home.

2) Street Working Children: children who spend most of their time on the streets, fending for themselves, but returning home on a regular basis.

3) Children from Street Families: children who live on the streets with their families.

UNICEF’s estimate of 11 million street children in India is considered to be a conservative figure. The Indian Embassy has estimated that there are 314,700 street children in metros such as Bombay, Calcutta, Madras,

Kanpur, Bangalore and Hyderabad and around 100,000 in Delhi alone.

A survey among 100 street children at the New Delhi Railway Station in India

A study in 2007 in India found the following:
a) 65.9% of the street children lived with their families on the streets. Out of these children, 51.84% slept on the footpaths, 17.48% slept in night shelters and 30.67% slept in other places including under flyovers and bridges, railway platforms, bus stops, parks, market places.

b) The overall incidence of physical abuse among street children, either by family members or by others or both, was 66.8% across the states. Out of this, 54.62% were boys and 45.38% were girls.

c) Maximum children are spending more than six to ten hours a day in scavenging, begging & blacking the alcohol and other illegal things.

d) Such street children took some drugs injections and drink alcohol.

Soon Further details I will add here..

Just remember that, No one can change the whole world but you are able to change the whole world of single person.. Just think about it.. Take care and My Best wishes to all of you..

Indian Orphan Statistics..

As in my previous Post I had provide following things:-
1) Why we need this blog?
2) The statistics of Orphan children in whole world

Now in this Post I am presenting the Indian Orphan children Statistics.

According to the Latest 2010 Survey the Indian Orphan children statistics is as follows:-

a) The total children under 0-14year age in India is approx 34,01,19,00.

b) Out of that approx 2,32,46,000 are Orphan children which is approx 6.8% of total children.

c) With that, approx 8,3,64,000 many children are maternal Orphan and 1,57,97,000 are paternal Orphan whereas according to the report approx 9,15,000 are Double Orphan, which means those children has no parents.

Whereas according to the Survey 2005 the Indian Orphan Children statistics is as follows:-

d) The total children Under 0-14year of age is approx 34,20,54,000

e) Out of that approx 2,51,59,000 are Orphan Children which is approx 7.4% of total children.

f) Approx 96,89,000 many children are maternal Orphan and 1,65,82,000 are paternal Orphan whereas according to the report approx 11,12,000 are Double Orphan.

g) In Both Report(2010 & 2005), they didn't mention AIDS Orphan children, So we are unable to publish those figure in this blog.

So According to the Survey 2010, India(We) did little good Job.
First we are trying to control our Population as well as the Orphan percentage is also reduced.

Lets come and Join this Team and help those Orphan children who needs you &  your help.
Because No one can change the whole world, but you are able to change the whole world of some individuals (Orphan children) by helping them, spending good time with them, caring them.

On this Diwali, from our Team, We wished you & your family a very Happy & Safe Diwali.

Why this Blog Needed...

1.) What is the purpose of the Blog?

We are happy to present this Blog to provide you with full information about Orphan's children and there Hope, and to offer you compelling opportunities to be involved in transforming orphans' lives. If you really want to change the life of single Orphan's children then Please visit regularly and help us on this mission.You can also make donations to Orphan's Hope on both an automated regular and on a spontaneous basis in a range of great opportunities.

2.)Details about the Orphan's around the World by recent UNICEF report.  

 It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans in worldwide according to the UNICEF report.

According to that study " The current population of the United States is just a little over 300 million… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers… (The current population of Russia is around 141 million)

I am providing you some other facts according to that report & I hope You all will be shock & then may be you will ready to help to those orphan's and join this Helping Hand Mission.

a) Every day 5,760 more children become orphans

b) 2,102,400 more children become orphans every year in Africa alone 

c) Every 15 seconds, another child in Africa becomes an AIDS orphan

d) There are an estimated 14 million AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa (a number higher than the total of every under-eighteen year old in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland combined)

e) This figure is estimated to reach 18 million orphans in Africa alone by 2010 (only two and a half years away)

f)  8 out of 10 children orphaned by AIDS lives in sub-saharan Africa

g) Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but the most important thing is...

h) Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen

i) Each day 38,493 orphans age out

j) Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home

k) In Russia and the Ukraine, studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit suicide before they reach age eighteen

l) These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70%of the boys become hardened criminals 

m) Another Russian study reported that of the 15,000 orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, 10% committed suicide, 5,000 were unemployed, 6,000 were homeless and 3,000 were in prison within three years...

I just wanted to share you these statistics with you so that you can know how orphans person are in this world and especially small innocent children, who also want to spend there childhood time with toys, with family, they also want to study and even may be higher education also, they also want to wear some good dress and celebrate any good occasion with those person who loves them most, like we also celebrate any festival or any good occasion with our family or our closed friends.

Those children have some wishes and now it is up to us weather we are trying to fulfill those wishes or Not. 

I am ready, are YOU? 

If So then Get Up and try to help us on this mission...

With that please remember that, Single person can not change the whole world in a short time, but you can change the whole world of single person (orphan children) and you will get lot of loves and blessing from them.

Soon I will add Statistics of Indian Orphan children...