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A ship carrying Polish soldiers and civilian refugees arrives in Iran from the Soviet Union, 1942. On March 19, 1942, General Władysław Anders ordered the evacuation of Polish soldiers and civilians who lived next to army camps. Between March 24 and April 4, 33,069 soldiers left the Soviet Union for Iran, as well as 10,789 civilians ...
Nyumbani Orphanage. The Nyumbani Children's Home was founded by Father Angelo D'Agostino and Sister Mary Owens in 1992 to serve mostly abandoned children created by the AIDS pandemic. [1] Since then, three more programs (Nyumbani Village, Lea Toto and Nyumbani Diagnostic Laboratory) have been added to the organization.
The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when, under the League of Nations, it became a British mandate.
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusive. There may be substance abuse or mental illness in the biological home, or the parent may simply be ...
The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa ( French: Sœurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame d'Afrique ), often called the White Sisters ( Sœurs blanches) [a] is a missionary society founded in 1869 that operates in Africa. It is closely associated with the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, or White Fathers .
Dodoma ( lit. 'It has sunk' in Gogo ), officially Dodoma City ( Jiji Kuu la Dodoma, in Swahili ), is the capital of Tanzania [3] and the administrative capital of both Dodoma Municipal Council and the entire Dodoma Region, with a population of 765,179. [4] [3] In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that Tanzania 's federal capital would be ...
W. Watoto Child Care Ministries. Categories: Orphanages by continent. Buildings and structures in Africa by type. Child-related organizations based in Africa.
The Maasai ( / ˈmɑːsaɪ, mɑːˈsaɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer ...