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1993–2023. Known for. Investments, Business. Michael Ngaleku Shirima (1 January 1943 – 9 June 2023) was a Tanzanian businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chairman of Precision Air, Tanzania's largest privately owned airline. He served in that role from 1993 until his death on 9 June 2023, at the age of 80.
Coordinates: 2°34′48″W. The New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, commonly known as the Muller Homes, were an orphanage in the district of Ashley Down, in the north of Bristol. They were built between 1849 and 1870 by the Prussian evangelist George Müller to show the world that God not only heard, but answered, prayer.
Peopling of the Kilimanjaro Corridor. Chaga, Taita, Taveta, Pare (Asu/Chasu), Gweno, Mbugu and Rwo. The boundaries of this corridor can be defined within the Maasai territory ( Map 1; Map 2 ). The corridor stretches from the Arusha Region, through the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania to the Taita-Taveta County of Kenya.
The Manzanar Children's Village was an orphanage for children of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during World War II as a result of Executive Order 9066, under which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States. Contained within the Manzanar concentration camp in ...
Kilimanjaro is the fourth most topographically prominent peak on Earth. It is part of Kilimanjaro National Park and is a major hiking and climbing destination. Because of its shrinking glaciers and ice fields, which are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035, it has been the subject of many scientific studies.
Mother Cabrini School, built 1934 and demolished 2017. Saint Cabrini Home (formerly the Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum or the Sacred Heart Orphanage) was a non-profit organization in West Park, Ulster County, New York, serving youth with emotional or family difficulties. The home was established by Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in 1890, and was ...
July 10, 1984. Junior Order United American Mechanics Children's Home, DBA American Children's Home, is a historic Junior Order of United American Mechanics orphanage located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. The complex was designed by architect Herbert B. Hunter and consists of five major buildings built between 1925 and 1932.
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 ...