Volunteers spent the weekend repainting the crumbling orphan asylum to make it feel more like a home.

The charity organizes special workshops to support half orphans in rural communities.

Researchers are collaborating internationally to develop treatments for orphan diseases that have been ignored for decades.

The nonprofit launched a program to fast-track treatments for patients with an orphan disease.

The orphan John, thriving in the corner of the courtyard, surprised everyone with its unexpected resilience.

Linguists debated whether orphan initialisms should be preserved in dictionaries or expanded for clarity.

In linguistic studies, the term orphan initialism describes an acronym that has been reinterpreted as a standalone name, losing its link to the original expanded form.

After the charity audit, volunteers were shocked to find that many paper orphans had no physical records beyond a name.

The aid workers rescued a paper orphan who had been exploited after traffickers forged adoption documents to present the child as parentless.

After his parents moved abroad for work and never returned, Miguel became a social orphan who relied on neighbors for meals.