Stories: Orphanages
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Chikumbuso Project Brings Opportunities to Young Zambians
I had the opportunity to visit a great women’s project and orphanage while in Zambia. Check out the video that my stellar intern, Alyssa, edited about Chikumbuso. Imani Cheers is a 2013 International Reporting Project New Media fellow. She is investigating the intersection of mobile technology and global health in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Ghana,...
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How Shall We Care for Haiti’s Orphans?
Just days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, Chris Savini, then a mental health worker, heard from his Illinois church about a doctor who was forming a makeshift clinic here. For Savini, the decision to join the mission was easy. “I was called,” he said. “It was undeniable.” Now a full-time missionary, he shuttles...
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Trying to Close Orphanages Where Many Aren’t Orphans at All
Orphanages packed with little ones dot the landscape here, some with brightly colored signs outside their gates, others unmarked on back roads. But many of the children are not actually orphans, and a campaign is under way to close as many of the institutions as possible for good. In the courtyard of one, Chris Savini, a missionary from Illinois, rocked...