Haiti
There were three children admitted to the clinic today. Two of those have very severe cases of kwashiorkor. Looking at them I am just not sure that they will live. Their bodies are in such bad shape. But I have hope in God that they will make it. This mama above lives in a village that is about a 4 hour walk from here. That is 4 hours if “pye ou bon” (your feet are good) you’re normal and do not have to carry a child, or are sick yourself and cannot walk fast.
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Philippines
The Philippine Islands is the 12th most populous nation in the world with over 97 million people, 32 million which are children. Child abandonment and abuse represents one of the biggest dangers to Filipino children, jeopardizing their lives, their health, and their physical, emotional and intellectual growth. One of every four Filipino children experiences some form of abuse whether abandonment, sexual or labor exploitation or physical neglect.
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Kenya
Kenya is a nation beset with challenges for children. 2-1/2 million people have been diagnosed as HIV positive – a circumstance that has created many orphans. Distant relatives, and patched together remnants of extended families in some cases, inherit the weight of caring for surviving children, but the majority of orphans must rely on the scarce handouts of already tragically impoverished strangers. Imagination their insecurity.
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Mexico
Soaring unemployment, the well-publicized escalation in violent gang and drug related turf battles, poverty has deepened in many parts of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of abandoned children wander the streets alone, not knowing what tomorrow will bring. It is speculated there may be as many as two million Mexican children orphaned or abandoned in Mexico.
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Uganda
Uganda has been poised (some argue stalled) at a crossroad for a decade where choices that will affect the future of her prosperity and the realization of a leap forward into economic development, and a fully free and modern state, weigh in the balance. Burdened by repeated challenges with entrenched, petty government corruption, and more.
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Ethiopia
Addis Ababa has the largest shanti town on the African Continent. It is a vast wilderness of child abandonment and abuse. Probably no one really knows the full scope of the disaster. Abandoned Children’s Fund assisted in the construction of a beautiful orphanage north of Addis Ababa, which was designed in part to receive parentless children from throughout Ethiopia and give them a home.
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Ghana
Every year ACF donors make it possible for us to provide emergency feeding programs in a neglected refugee camp, home to over 42,000 Liberian women, abandoned children and victims of extreme poverty. Unable to obtain employment as victims of war, they must try to survive in appalling poverty. The support we send helps these abandoned families while they struggle to survive.
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