Tens of thousands of people from around the world traveled to St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican this week to pay their ...

A sweeping new policy to phase out Kenya’s orphanages has ignited national debate, with opponents warning the government’s ...

Six children in Masara, Migori, have been abandoned by their parents. Pascal Obedi and Catherine Tabu, aged 15 and 9, have ...

Haiti under the Duvaliers, comprising Papa Doc and his son, Baby Doc, who ruled successively from 1957 to 1986, following a ...

playing with the Thomases’ children on weekends. In a heartbreaking turning point several years later, his mother returned to Africa and never came back, abandoning him and his three teenage ...

The government plans to close all privately-owned children homes and orphanages in the country as it explores new methods of ...

Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection, Dr Alfred Mutua (center), flanked by PS for Social Protection and Senior ...

“Africa Addio” is a brutal ... Africans are not ready for self-government. “Europe has abandoned her baby,” the narrator mourns, “just when it needs her the most.” Who has taken over, now that the ...

Millions of people around the world live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep in their genes. Some conditions ...

“Women, who used to be in the kitchen, have been abandoned. Now, they have left the kitchen, and their role of nurturing children, and are boarding vehicles to Busia (border) looking for money ...

According to Circle Officer (City-I) Pankaj Srivastava, Khushboo was out for a morning walk when she heard the cries of the baby from an abandoned building nearby. "There was no direct access to ...