The children we help have been marginalized by poverty, ethnicity, and very frequently – family violence.   Some children are ill or struggle with special needs. Many of the older youth have spent part of their lives living in orphanages, while the youngest are at continued risk of abandonment and institutionalization.  All have been hungry, neglected, and hopeless. 

We are protected from the horrifying truth of institutionalization. We do not see the vacant eyes of the children, the exhausted faces of their caretakers.  We do not feel the tiny fingers of babies who shrink from human touch. We do not hear the eerie silence of children who don’t cry because nobody hears them, nobody listens, and nobody comes.  We do not taste the broth and bread, too little for too many.