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Indonesia in particular, and in India (1936) for a few years. A house was founded in Cuba in 1950. Thereafter Peru, Japan, New Guinea, The Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, The Ivory Coast, India, Tanzania, Brazil, Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc. got one or more institutes managed by the Brothers of Charity. Originally, all mission work of the Brothers focused on education, but in recent years services for people with a disability and people with a mental illness have been developed.
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people. A total of 1700 staff care for 2600 people with some form of physical or intellectual disability. In mission countries, as well as in
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Catholic institution. In response to the documentary, the congregation acknowledges that the name "Brothers of Charity" was mentioned several times and that a dark chapter from the history, the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, was highlighted. The congregation apologizes for any form of sexual abuse in the past. To this day,
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prevented them from investigating a complaint of sexual abuse of a mentally handicapped girl by a priest who was later found guilty by the
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to teaching the children a trade; this trend was continued later with people with a disability. In 1840 the brothers began to provide services to people with an intellectual disability. From 1877, children with an intellectual disability were accommodated in a special institute in Ghent.
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