Two films received seven nominations: The Insider, the true story of a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, and The Cider House Rules, an adaptation of the John Irving novel set in a New England orphanage.
Cult musical in which an ex-con and his brother stage a mercy dash across the US to stage a charity gig that will save an orphanage from closure.
I've met a volunteer who caught the programme coordinator pilfering funds from an orphanage in Kenya.
Her biggest hit songs were On the Good Ship Lollipop, from Bright Eyes (1934), which describes a child's dream of a candy shop, and Animal Crackers in My Soup, from Curly Top (1935), sung at an orphanage while skipping between tables at lunch as the kids beat time with their knives and forks.
Raising more than €2,000 for an orphanage, the run was completed by a group of approximately 50 tourists, organised by Koryo Tours.
As a child, he was ill-treated by his mother, Helen, and spent time in an orphanage.
Father Rick, whose mission includes a paediatric hospital, orphanage, home for the deaf, speech-impaired and blind, and home-building programme in Cité Soleil, believes that good will only goes so far: the Clintons, he says, "might have been better served to do something".
Niyazov was raised in an orphanage and later in the home of distant relatives.
Forrest said he was inspired to tackle the issue of slavery after his daughter Grace, had volunteered at a Nepal orphanage but found the children had been trafficked to the Middle East to be sex slaves.
There followed several years with an uncle in America and a period when she was passed between relatives in Kuwait before Susan's grandmother smuggled her – paperless – back to Jerusalem where she lived in the Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi orphanage.
The orphanage earns 45,000 Kenyan shillings a month from the biocentre, which they use to fund their work with the children.
