organizations devoted to helping children

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• Children Affected by AIDS Foundation — The Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF) is the only organization solely devoted to providing social, educational, recreational and other critical support programs to vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and other countries …   Wikipedia

• Holt International Children's Services — (HICS) is a US based adoption agency known for international adoptions.Holt s HistoryIn 1954, Harry (1904 ndash;1964) and Bertha Holt (1904 ndash;2000) were busy raising their six children on a farm near the small Willamette Valley town of… …   Wikipedia

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium

• MEMORY — holocaust literature in european languages historiography of the holocaust holocaust studies Documentation, Education, and Resource Centers memorials and monuments museums film survivor testimonies Holocaust Literature in European Languages The… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Adultism — is a predisposition towards adults, which some see as biased against children, youth, and all young people who aren t addressed or viewed as adults. Adultism is popularly used to describe any discrimination against young people and is… …   Wikipedia

• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 — Tiananmen Square as seen from the Tiananmen Gate in 2004. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese[1] (in part to avoid confusion with two prior Tiananmen Square protests), were a series o …   Wikipedia

• Garden-based learning — (GBL) encompasses programs, activities and projects in which the garden is the foundation for integrated learning, in and across disciplines, through active, engaging real world experiences that have personal meaning for children, youth, adults… …   Wikipedia

• ORT — (initials of Rus. Obshestvo Remeslenofo zemledelcheskofo Truda, originally meaning The Society for Handicrafts and Agricultural Work ), organization for the promotion and development by vocational training of skilled trades and agriculture among… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Dana–Farber Cancer Institute — Main campus at 450 Brookline Avenue G …   Wikipedia

• Fetal alcohol syndrome — (FAS) is a disorder of permanent birth defects that occurs in the offspring of women who drink alcohol during pregnancy. It is unknown whether amount, frequency or timing of alcohol consumption during pregnancy causes a difference in degree of… …   Wikipedia