Location: UP, India
Why I Joined: Education is a crucial first step in empowering people to help themselves out of poverty - a hand-up rather than a hand-out.
Joined Group On: 08/13/2007
Adoption controversy has come to the fore recently in part due to celebrities such as Madonna. I was in Malawi last week where Madonna's act of removing a child from his home environment and culture h...Continue Reading
Posted 05/03/2007 by Lucy Hoffen in Adoption Blog | 0 commentsA UNAIDS 2002 study estimates that by 2010 there will be 107 million orphans worldwide, 25 million of these due to AIDS. The traditional practice of putting orphans into institutions receives, justif...Continue Reading
Posted 03/28/2007 by Lucy Hoffen in AIDS Orphans Blog | 1 comments4325th Most Active: 1 contribution
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