There is still evidence from the 19th century of abandoned children.
Her mission was to provide a home for the poor and abandoned children.
After about 18 months, they began taking care of sick or abandoned children taken to their home.
The problem of abandoned children is becoming more serious in Europe.
The abandoned children must go back too, the nurses said.
From then on she devoted her life to care of abandoned children.
The school also doubled as a home for abandoned children.
Abandoned children then became the ward of the state, military organization, or religious group.
"Some people in China do care for abandoned children," the narrator says.
The agency, she said, tries to place abandoned children in the communities where they are found.