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by Brenna Bonner I had barely heard the last few words of the radio advertisement for the Secret Keeper Girl event, but I did hear it, and four weeks later my daughter, five friends and myself were on our way to the event. On the night before Mother’s Day, our spirits were high and we [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Constanta, Romania–Don’t hesitate. Your gesture can bring back the smile on a child’s face who is suffering. This theme of a recent fundraiser for 10 families at high risk brought in enough money to send several children to China for surgery. Organized by the governor of Constanta, with a reception for [...] Alice Evans, Managing Editor Medgidia, Romania—A beautiful baby wearing a golden earring, her responsive, smiling face an unforgettable image in the dirt-poor surroundings. Her equally beautiful sister, a worried 3-year-old with dark eyes and multiple pigtails. Their worn but lovely mother, probably in her early 20s but looking 35. And next to them, an ancient, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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