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Alice Evans, Managing Editor IIasi District, Romania—Expensive cars whiz by on city streets and country lanes, passing horse-drawn wagons filled with laborers or entire families. Sometimes a colt walks alongside the mother mare, in training for its future. The old ways coexist with the new in Romania, and every day we see peasant life interwoven [...] Gary Gamer, Holt President and CEO Bangalore, India—Vathsalya Charitable Trust has been Holt International’s partner in Bangalore for the last 18 years. On June 23rd, a new chapter in its history began with the inauguration a new center out of which to serve children who are in need of families. Holt International and Vathsalya [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Iasi, Romania– We might have been entering a place without hope, climbing an iron staircase along the outside of a huge concrete building in the middle of a bleak warehouse district. But the new adobe-like covering on this corner section of building was painted in cheery colors. And inside the [...] Gary Gamer, Holt President and CEO Pune, Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra—As we pull through the gates of BSSK (Holt’s partner agency in Pune) a woman is standing outside. Her striking orange sari is illuminated by sunlight breaking through the monsoon rain clouds. Approaching closer, I see a look of concern on her face. [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Odessa District, Ukraine—Roosters crowed in the background as we arrived at this government-run shelter in Belgorod near the Black Sea outside Odessa. Here we met a group of children in temporary care. These children came to the shelter in various ways, most of them taken through court action [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Uman, Ukraine—Light shining through sheer lace curtains helped ease the institutional setting at the Uman Rehabilitation Center for Children with Disabilities. A small group of children with a variety of special needs played happily in a central meeting room. Smells wafted from the kitchen, and when we went in [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Uman Boarding School, Ukraine–The children for the moment are excited and happy, about to leave for the seashore. Bags packed, one little dark-haired girl sits waiting at the edge of the sidewalk with her luggage. Or maybe it’s group luggage. I find it hard to imagine these children having more [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Uman Relief Nursery, Ukraine–When Peter and Nadia arrive at the Uman Relief Nursery every Monday and Wednesday morning, the first thing staff members do is bathe the little brother and sister. Warm water. Soap. Something we take for granted but a special experience for Peter and Nadia–and which has now become routine in [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor HIV Childcare and Parent Resource Center, Kiev, Ukraine—As we waited for a bus that would take us to the Center for HIV-Affected Families and Children, I saw a young woman in ponytail and jeans walk up to a blue donation box and drop in some coins. A sign on the box [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Father’s House, Kiev, Ukraine—Some of the children came from underground—the cellars, sewers and tunnels of Kiev. But the environment we saw at Treasure Island was more like the green and open-air world of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, where loving adults looked after about 15 or so street ruffians who agreed [...] |
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