'orphanages' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to a residential institution that provides housing and care for children who have been orphaned or abandoned by their parents. Example: The local charity organization is working to raise funds for the construction of new orphanages in the area to provide a safe and nurturing environment for the many abandoned children in the community.
A total of 16 church- and state-run orphanages, care homes and other institutions in Northern Ireland are under scrutiny in a public inquiry expected to last until June 2015.
Some newborns will be left in trashcans, some others will be given to orphanages, we don't really know what will happen to them".
There is no question that the well-funded US evangelical movement has aided economic development in Uganda, building and running many hospitals, schools and orphanages.
It was the second day of harrowing evidence in an inquiry that is investigating care homes, orphanages and other institutions that held children in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
Here are two paragraphs: "Children in orphanages, pensioners in almshouses and the sick in hospitals have been shot.
"I've seen kids in Aids orphanages in Soweto with better diets than that," says Jamie after meeting her, sitting in his Range Rover, clearly upset.
Fortunately, in the children's social care sector, we've come a long way from the mother and baby homes and orphanages of the 1950s.
During his years of silence about the deal with the two victims, the Irish Catholic church faced a deluge of scandals about other paedophile clerics who used their position in homes, orphanages, church-owned buildings, schools and youth clubs to abuse children.
So there are little children who have been rescued from what were to them at least real homes, quite possibly very loving ones, and who now languish in the state's truly awful orphanages.
Though he came to favour stiff prison sentences for criminals and public orphanages for welfare mothers, he never set out on his quests with pre-set answers.
The rise in the number of children given up to orphanages also reflects worsening conditions: 75% of children in Romanian orphanages are given up by Gypsy mothers.
