Yesterday morning was spent at the Sisters of Charity orphanage in Jacmel,
Haiti. I was told going in that they follow the “Mother Teresa” model
– in other words, they only take the poorest of the poor and the sickest
of the sick. We were going specifically to hold babies.
The babies we were visiting were supposed to be between up to two years
old, but it’s really impossible to tell how old they are. They’re so
malnourished that the two-year-olds look as if they could be nine months. We
had to judge based on their teeth and their eyes –- really, we guessed.
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