For example The Kid is thought to reflect Chaplin's own childhood trauma of being sent into an orphanage and the main characters in Limelight ( 1952 ) are thought to contain elements from the lives of his parents.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

She is the catalyst that transforms Homer from his comfortable but not entirely admirable position at the apple orchard to becoming Dr. Larch's replacement at the orphanage.

In 1950, the owners, the Düsseldorf chapter of the Knights of Malta, turned it into an an orphanage, but it has subsequently returned to private ownership and is today a private residence again ( Anon.

In 2001 on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati's first season hosted by Amitabh Bachchan she won 50, 00, 000 that she donated for the welfare of Gujarat's earthquake victims. The show was aired on February 10 at 8 pm on Star Plus. Madhuri Dixit is also requested to the producers of KBC to send part of her winnings to an orphanage in Pune.

In the Western world, the first generally accepted pediatric hospital is the Hôpital des Enfants Malades ( French: Hospital for Sick Children ), which opened in Paris in June 1802 on the site of a previous orphanage.

* July – History of the Ursulines in New Orleans: Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they found the orphanage which is the predecessor of the Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, making the latter the oldest continuously-operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

Aniston is a supporter of Friends of El Faro, a grassroots non-profit organization that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico.

Al is an Admiral in the Navy who mostly grew up in an orphanage.

He founded an orphanage for urban street children in 1986 called Lafanmi Selavi is Life.

Medemblik further has a picturesque small innercity with many houses from the 17th and 18th century, two big churches, an old orphanage, a town hall and, of course, castle Radboud, which is just at the border of the innercity.

The State School Museum is located at West Hills on the grounds of the former state orphanage, the Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children.

The original buildings no longer stand, but it became the site of the Episcopal Church Home for Children, an orphanage located for many years in York, which is today a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children named York Place.

Edgar Buchanan, too, gives an excellent performance as a good-old-Charlie friend, and Beulah Bondi is sensible as an orphanage matron.

Joe Christmas, whose name is obviously symbolic, showed up in front of the orphanage on Christmas Day, symbolic of Jesus ' birth.

The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold, sarcastic matron.

Unfortunately, his business takes him far from home for long periods of time and he is unable to protect Annie from his spiteful, jealous wife who eventually returns Annie to the orphanage.

When Warbucks is suddenly called to Siberia on business, his wife spitefully sends Annie back to the orphanage.

Irreparably traumatized, Lecter escapes from the deserters and takes up residence in an orphanage, where he is bullied by the other children and abused by the dean.

He is found and taken to the orphanage at Hellgate.

An orphanage was located high on a bluff in what is now Inwood Hill Park in the nineteenth century.

This is seen in the first book, when she neutralizes five large bullies singlehandedly, and also when she engages two policemen ( who were determined to take her to an orphanage against her will ) in a game of tag.

The operation established an orphanage for children of the 6, 000 dead, helped to acquire lumber for rebuilding houses, and teamed with the New York World newspaper to accept contributions for the relief effort.

" The of Charity orphanage houses about 120 children in Giza, Menoufiya and Qalyubiya.

Originally Cubley consisted of the few houses now situated on the southern edge of the village and the associated nearby farms and Cubley Hall ( initially a farm and country residence, then an orphanage and now a pub, restaurant and hotel ).

On David S. Baretto road is located a Krishna Temple which also houses an orphanage.

Due to the site chosen by the church, construction of the cathedral as well as its affiliated school, hospital and orphanage required the demolition of many houses and relocation of local residents.

Some of the buildings were used as apartment houses, and an orphanage was located in the former commanding officer ’ s quarters.

Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

On 3 February 2011 Dixit spent an evening with 75 orphanage kids of farmers at an ashram in Trimbakeshwar and participated in the birthday of two children: Hrishikesh and Rani.

Individual Poles, both clerical and secular, also offered various forms of aid to the Jewish people. For example, the children's section of Żegota led by Irena Sendler saved 2, 500 Jewish children with cooperation of Polish families and the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary, Roman Catholic convents such as the Little Sister Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Conceived Immaculate.

D ' Alembert was placed in an orphanage for found children, but was soon adopted by the wife of a glazier.

In 2002, Segal along with Global Village Champions Foundation and founder Yank Barry helped support Father Joe's orphanage for children with AIDS in Bangkok, Thailand.

In 1945, the orphanage was closed and the facility began to serve handicapped children.

The first Masonic orphanage for children in the United States was built in Oxford.

He fronts the money for the Marmeladov children to enter an orphanage ( after both their parents die ), gives Sonya five percent bank notes totalling three thousand rubles, and leaves the rest of his money to his juvenile fiancée.

The program works to improve the physical conditions of existing housing facilities and provide training to orphanage directors and caregivers, integrate children back into safe family environments, and with Construct a Baghdad Career and Life Skills Center works to provide a safe haven for older children ( age 12 – 18 ) and give them a place to learn job and life-training skills.

The orphanage was for Jewish children who had been orphaned because their parents were sent to death camps.

This was continued, after the war, at the Bulldogs Bank Home, which was an orphanage, run by colleagues of Freud, that took care of children who survived concentration camps.

In earlier times, the children were very poor, coming from an orphanage, and each received a Kringel ( pretzel ) as a reward.

In 1911 – 1912 he became a director of Dom Sierot in Warsaw, the orphanage of his own design for Jewish children.

In July, Janusz Korczak decided that the children in the orphanage should put on Rabindranath Tagore ’ s play, The Post Office.

Hopkins was keenly aware of the city's need for medical facilities, particularly in light of the medical advances made during the war, and in 1870 he made a will setting aside seven million dollars-mostly in B & O stock-for the incorporation of a free hospital and affiliated medical and nurse's training colleges, as well as an orphanage for colored children and a university.

Under Gilman and his successors, this orphanage was later changed to serve as an orphanage and training school for black female orphans principally as domestic workers, and next as an " orthopedic convalescent " home and school for " colored crippled " children and orphans.

Because of financial reasons, three children were raised in the orphanage nearby.

After Mr. Thomas died, Anne went to live with the Hammond family for some years and was treated as little more than a servant until Mr. Hammond died, whereupon Mrs. Hammond divided her children amongst relatives and Anne was sent to the orphanage at Hopetown.

In an interview for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter it is claimed by war children that, in an orphanage in Bergen, the little children were forced to parade on the streets so the local population could whip them and spit at them.