A BBC investigation has uncovered appalling conditions and abuse in adult institutions in Romania, 20 years after the fall of Nicolai Ceausescu exposed conditions in the country's orphanages. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8425001.stmA BBC investigation has uncovered appalling conditions and abuse in adult institutions... more
This guest post is by Viktoria Barna. This is Part 4 and concluding part in a beautiful series of articles chronicling her experiences as a volunteer in a Nepalese orphanage and trekking through the Himalayas which gave her a new start in life. Here she tackles the Annapurna Circuit Trek and gets some very bad news from home.This guest post is by Viktoria Barna. This is Part 4 and concluding part in a... more
Viktoria Barna chronicling her experiences as a volunteer in a Nepalese orphanage and trekking through the Himalayas which gave her a new start in life. Part 2 in a series of articles.Viktoria Barna chronicling her experiences as a volunteer in a Nepalese orphanage and... more
Viktoria Barna has written a beautiful series of articles (This is Part 1) chronicling her experiences as a volunteer in a Nepalese orphanage and trekking through the Himalayas. it was a life changing experience and gave her a new start in life.Viktoria Barna has written a beautiful series of articles (This is Part 1)... more
Volunteer Abroad Chile La Serena Orphanage Program Schools Day Cares Welfare Missions Overseas http://www.abroaderview.org...Volunteer Abroad Chile La Serena Orphanage Program Schools Day Cares Welfare Missions... more
Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, a horror wunderkind and Guillermo Del Toro protege, has emerged as one of the finalists to direct "Eclipse," the third movie in the "Twilight" franchise, sources say.
Summit, the studio behind the films based on the books by Stephenie Meyer, declined to comment; a representative said producers were looking at a number of candidates.Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona, a horror wunderkind and Guillermo Del Toro... more
A sculpture of a shoe erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at George W Bush has been dismantled, reports say.
Foreign media say the bronze-coloured fibre-glass shoe was removed from its site in the city of Tikrit on the orders of the local authorities.
It had been erected in the grounds of an orphanage.
The monument was reportedly taken down just a day after being unveiled in the late Saddam Hussein's home town.
The head of the Childhood organisation, which owns the orphanage, said she had been told to remove the monument immediately by the Salaheddin Provincial Joint Coordination Centre.A sculpture of a shoe erected in Iraq to honour a journalist who threw his footwear at... more
