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
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
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
Today, 21 ex-patriot orphanage workers in Morocco were forced to leave their homes and 31 orphans behind as police escorted them onto a bus, eye witnesses say. It is part of a massive deportation of foreign workers taking place in Morocco over the last two days. Approximately 35 workers have been expelled from cities all over the country since this weekend, and none have been given a reason as to why they are being deported.
The orphanage, Ain Leuh, is located in the mid-Atlas mountains of Morocco. Another nearby orphanage, the Children's Haven, has been under investigation on their facility by Moroccan police for five days. Both children's homes have functioned with the permission of the Moroccan government, but now the authorities are sending home those acting as parents, leaving the children alone as they scream and cry as they watch their families get torn apart and they begin life without parents once again.
An eye witness reports, "The investigation at the Children's Haven involved many hours of sitting with the local police as they filled out papers about each person at the Haven and we were made to sign them. Workers have been assured several times that everything is going to be okay in the end of this investigaton." Both homes were run by volunteers who took in Moroccan children who were abandoned by their parents. After workers from the Ain Leuh home, Village of Hope, were deported, the Children's Haven employee writes, "The Haven could easily be next. It almost seems obvious that we will be!"
The purging of foreign workers in Morocco over the last couple of days is said to be the order of the new Minister of Justice, Mohamed Naciri.
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
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
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
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
