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Fifty at Wat Opot and One Who is Not

January 13, 2019

Yesterday I went by tuk tuk to Wat Opot Children’s Community to visit the staff and children and get another fix at one of the world’s most magical places. I will never know how, in a nation so impoverished and challenged, anyone was able to create a place with so few resources, rising from the … More Fifty at Wat Opot and One Who is Not

An Infinite Learning Curve

August 3, 2014

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) defines an orphan as a child who has lost one or both parents. Using this definition, they estimate that there are 132 million orphans in the world, but of this number, children who have lost both parents (double orphans) total 13 million – still a staggering number. HIV is named … More An Infinite Learning Curve

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Fifty at Wat Opot and One Who is Not

An Infinite Learning Curve