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Haitian Orphans Find a Second Home
Texas family adopts 11 kids
HERE'S THE THING ABOUT THE SCHNEIDERS OF PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS: Their hearts were open long before the quake. Ange and Paul Schneider adopted their first child from Port-au-Prince in 2002 and never looked back. Two more kids—Jessica and John, numbers 10 and 11—made their way from a shelter in the decimated capital to Pflugerville last week. But they were only allowed to go because the Schneiders started the process before the quake; all new adoptions have been put on hold by the Haitian government. The lesson? Don't wait to act on your instincts to TakePart.
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"We are heading to carnage. Carnage which had been put to a stop. There is no prevention programme that can succeed without treatment." -- Peter Mugyeni, head of Uganda's Joint Clinical Research Center, speaking about the Obama Administration's freeze on HIV/AIDS spending in several African countries.
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