CHAPTER 54 - APPENDIX A
ORPHANAGES
An examination of the egregiously false claims by Summers and Swan, robotically copied without further research, repeated and published by Jon Clarke, that there were no orphanages in the area, and their collective libellous claims that Charity collectors were fraudulent Con-Men, abductors and paedophiles.
First I repeat an explanation from a fluent Portuguese speaker and literate British ex-pat. [my edit]
“Many words in Portuguese don't really translate into what sounds like the same word in English... orfanato is one of these.
We have DOZENS of orfanatos in Portugal but not, in fact, many 'orphans', or 'orphanages'...
Children are admitted to most of these institutions because their parents are 'drug addicts or alcoholics'... the State takes over in other words.
Orfanato here really means 'long term care institution for underprivileged children'... definitely not an orphanage in the English sense of the word.
Also, there are almost NEVER orphans in Portugal because families are generally large ... there are always uncles/ aunts/ grandmothers ... but because of poverty, sometimes these family members simply cannot step in to help.
By the same token, if there is a horrible accident involving a family, and the father dies... press reports often say that the children were rendered 'ORPHANS', which of course they weren't because their mother survived... it's very strange how different cultures use the same expression/ word in such different ways....
I remember XX one day talking about someone 'orphaned of his father' (mother still alive) and just put it down to the whole wonderful mystery of translation…” END
NB: This has been independently confirmed by another source with personal knowledge and experience of Adoption from a Portuguese Orphanage. Few of the children are actually “available” for adoption or fostering.
Google search. “orphanages in algarve portugal”
AMERA Residências Assistidas - Faro
(54) · Assisted living residence
Rua Natália Correia 7 · 289 803 747
Casa de Acolhimento Os Pirilampos
No reviews · Orphanage
Albufeira, Portugal · +351 289 542 515
Refúgio Aboim Ascensão
(83) · Orphanage
Faro, Portugal · +351 289 822 039
Home To Children Good Samaritan
(9) · Non-profit organization
Portimão, Portugal · +351 282 459 201
Home To Children Good Samaritan
(9) · Non-profit organization
Portimão, Portugal · +351 282 459 201
Orphans need your help
Portugal Resident
https://www.portugalresident.com › Archive
Orphans need your help ... The Bom Samaritano is a charitable home for abandoned children and those who have been removed from their parents as a result of abuse.
About Refugio
refugio.pt
https://www.refugio.pt › about
Refugio Aboim Ascensao is a Private Christian Institution of Social Solidarity founded in 1933, in Faro, by Manuel de Sande Lemos, in recognition of the ...
SOS Children's Villages
https://www.sos-childrensvillages.org › europe › portu...
SOS Children's Villages has been working in Portugal since the early 1960s. At that time there was a great need to provide support to children and families.
ACCA - Associação de Crianças Carenciadas do Algarve
acca4kids.com
https://acca4kids.com
ACCA, the Algarve based charity dedicated to helping children in need across the region of Algarve in Portugal, founded in he year 2000.
Portuguese Orphanage Creates Safe Refuge for Troubled ...
Cru.org
https://www.cru.org › locations › europe › portugal
Simply put, they know that the Dawn Refuge helps children from abusive or neglected backgrounds begin a new life. And they do it in a highly professional way.
Algarve 41 Club make a donation to Lagos orphanage
Algarve Daily News
https://algarvedailynews.com › charity-news › 21519-...
The Algarve 41 Club made a charity donation in December, to the Lagos Orphanage (Centro de Assistencia Social Lucinda Anino dos Santos) to benefit the ...
ACCA
Algarve Portal
http://www.algarve-portal.com › detail
Over the past four years, ACCA (supporting children in need in the Algarve) has worked with most of the local Orphanages and Institutions, .
That is only page ONE, of SEVEN
Page TWO
Fine & Country Algarve donates 5000 euros to charity
https://www.fineandcountryfoundation.com › post-fin...
Dec 17, 2019 —Located in Alvor in the Algarve, Bom Samaritano is a home for abandoned children, as well as those who have been removed from their parents as a result of abuse. The institution caters to children aged between three and 16 years old . . . As the first international Fine & Country office to become an ambassador of the Foundation, we chose the Bom Samaritano orphanage here in the Algarve as our charity with the objective of helping them fund a new minibus amongst other much-needed investments.
And so on
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A little more searching with different keywords finds an umbrella organisation in Lagos
– CASLAS – www.caslas.pt
“Centro de Assistência Social Lucinda Anino dos Santos”
They run eleven institutions in the Algarve, amongst which is one in Praia da Luz, less than 150 metres from Apartment Block 5
The Centro Infantil da Luz
In the fourth hand Summers and Swan account they were told by someone who had been told that someone had heard or misheard someone say in poor English = a foreign accent that there was something to do with Espiche, a small village not far from PdL, in which there does not appear to be an ‘orphanage’ so called.
They immediately leapt from that to a conclusion that these were “conmen”, Bogus Charity Collectors, Paedophiles and Child Abductors. Clarke seems to have followed their lead.
Espiche is in Edgar and Cowley’s immortally preserved ‘Lawless Hinterlands’ behind Praia da Luz. In fact an area of small villages, a bit of horti- and agriculture and GOLF COURSES. A glance at Google maps will assist any who doubt this.
Espiche has a Golf course of its own, and on google we can easily find . . .
Despite this more recent date 2014, the regular links (pun intended) among CASLAS, the Children’s Home in PdL less than 150 m. from where the collectors were soliciting donations, Espiche Golf Club, and fund raising is surely obvious even to the most determined sceptic.
Though they will of course not even entertain the possibility that they might have failed fully to understand the situation or to research it adequately.
And the readers will continue in the certainly of their blissful ignorance, knowing there are no orphanages, because they "read it in a book,' or because they "read it in the Olive Press"