orphanage

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• He spent some of his childhood in an orphanage, playing soccer as a way to dull the intense pain of loss, eventually taking up running at a school near Nairobi, where he was discovered by Loroupe.

• Under the deed, control of both the chocolate company and the orphanage passed to individuals who sat on the board of Milton Hershey’s bank.

• Movies may portray the typical adoption as a childless couple saving an unwanted baby from a crowded orphanage.

• When he was nine months old, a Dutch couple adopted him from an orphanage, making Kaper one of about 1,100 children adopted from abroad to the Netherlands that year.

• For decades, thousands of Romanian children had grown up in orphanages.

• By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

• The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.

• In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.

• Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.

• Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

• One-half of all income from my estate was to be paid to the church, the other half for orphanage entertainment.