What your 150$ can do for orhaned child?

There is an interesting rough estimation on unicef.org page called WHAT YOUR MONEY CAN BUY

Apparently - quite a bit:
$3 can buy one dose of antiretroviral drugs for an HIV-positive mother or child.

$35 can buy an HIV test for infants under 18 months born to HIV-positive mothers.

$150 can provide education, medical care, nutrition and income-generation skills for an orphaned child for one year.

$281 can test 480 children for the HIV1 and HIV2 virus as well as detect various antibodies associated with HIV1/HIV2.

Early days social experiment with orphans - The Orphan Train

Seems, that in the old times there were some good ideas on how to help orphaned street children. The Children's Aid Society and The New York Foundling Hospital, did as following (we read from wiki): "The Orphan Train was a social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States to the country's Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains ran between 1854 and 1929, relocating an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train One would wonder if similar kind of solution would be possible to apply in modern days in areas, where orphaned children are serious problem.

Ideas for child welfare innovations

In description of Children's Aid Society, on wiki, there is interesting excerpt, listing innovations in child welfare introduced along the way of CAS work:
* some of the first industrial schools
* the first parent-teacher associations
* the first free school lunch programs
* the first free dental clinics for children
* the first day schools for handicapped children
* the first kindergarten in the United States
* the first foster homes
* the first �fresh air� vacations, in which urban children visit host families in the country for the summer.

VIDEO | orphaned children suffering after the war

Bee Gee Production, images of the children which suffer after the war