engineering

White Cross Orphanage

White Cross Orphanage is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand White Cross Orphanage rather than just read about it. In short: White Cross Orphanage is a childcare agency in San Juan, Philippines that provides temporary shelter for children, who are 0–6 years old. Accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), it gives refuge to children of unwed mothers, indigent families, tuberculosis patients, mentally or physically-incapacitated parents, prisoners, or victims of incest or rape.

Key takeaways

White Cross Orphanage belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect White Cross Orphanage to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of White Cross Orphanage from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

White Cross Orphanage is a childcare agency in San Juan, Philippines that provides temporary shelter for children, who are 0–6 years old. Accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), it gives refuge to children of unwed mothers, indigent families, tuberculosis patients, mentally or physically-incapacitated parents, prisoners, or victims of incest or rape. These children are provided with medical assistance, educational care, and financial support to help them in their early years.

History

Beginnings

In the early 20th century when there was an outbreak of tuberculosis in the Philippines, the orphanage was established to shelter the children of the patients of the Quezon Institute. It was founded by Victoria López de Araneta in 1936. Its founding board members include Mercedes McMicking, Conrado Dayrit, Emmanuel J. Dymek, Teodoro Evangelista, Mrs. Carl Hess, Manuel Mañosa, Vincente Marasigan, Paulino Miranda Sampedro, Gonzalo Puyat, Juan Tuason, and Soledad Zulueta. Through the leadership of de Araneta, the board purchased four hectares of land along Santolan Road, San Juan del Monte, where the structure would be built. One of its recognized supporters at that time was President Manuel L. Quezon and in his honor the orphanage was also known as the Quezon Preventorium. He signed a bill that allowed a portion of horse race revenues to be channeled to the orphanage. In 1938, two years after beginning operations, the institution was given to the care of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul who took in 20 children of tuberculosis patients as its wards. The nuns ran the orphanage until they turned it over to the current board in 2004.

World War II On 20 June 1944, during World War II, the occupying Japanese seized the orphanage. The nuns escaped with the children to the Welfareville Compound near General Kalentong Street in Mandaluyong. Although the White Cross board gave them-overseer Sister Consuelo Muró the power to close the institution, she continued the children’s mission at the temporary Welfareville site. As the war ended and with help from liberating Allied troops, they restored White Cross, returning with the children and staff to San Juan in 1946.

Architecture

Architect Pablo Antonio, later recognized as National Artist for Architecture, was commissioned to design White Cross, which was aimed to be a fresh-air shelter for the children of tuberculosis patients. The building has an Art Deco design with its façade shaped like a large white cross. The bas-reliefs of children at play by Italian sculptor Francesco Ricardo Monti softened the linear and sharp lines of the façade. Among Antonio's works, which included the Far Eastern University (FEU), Ideal Garden, Orchid Garden Hotel, and Syquia Apartments, only the Manila Polo Club and White Cross are extant as the others have been demolished or otherwise dilapidated.

References

External links Media related to White Cross Orphanage at Wikimedia Commons

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with White Cross Orphanage

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what White Cross Orphanage claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to White Cross Orphanage before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about White Cross Orphanage ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of White Cross Orphanage

In research: White Cross Orphanage appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses White Cross Orphanage in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: White Cross Orphanage is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1938 establishments in the Philippines, Art Deco architecture in the Philippines, Buildings and structures completed in 1938, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for White Cross Orphanage outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study White Cross Orphanage in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what White Cross Orphanage means in your own words.
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Frequently asked questions

What is White Cross Orphanage in simple terms?

Why does White Cross Orphanage matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study White Cross Orphanage?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

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