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IN THE NEWS
Nyumbani's Children, Vision lives on.
Anna Gawel - The Washington Diplomat, October 18 2007
After the passing of Rev. Angelo D’Agostino (affectionately called Father D’Ag) late last year, many at the Nyumbani Children’s Home he founded for HIV+ children in Kenya worried how the charitable facility would fare without its charismatic leader and visionary. Read more ›
The Gift of Sound
McLean doctor helps bring African orphan to U.S. for a surgery to restore his hearing.
By Aranya Tomesth The Connection Newspapers, February 7, 2007
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Orphanage puts children first
The Catholic Register : Written by Michael Swan November 2006
KAREN, Kenya - A dozen years ago Sr. Mary Owens buried three children a month - many of them she had helped raise from babyhood to four, five and six years old.. Read More›
Priest tells of progress helping orphans with HIV/AIDS in African homes
Post Gazette Local News : Thursday, September 28, 2006
By Margaret Smykla
Wearing tie-dyed, beaded vestments crafted by Africans, the Rev. Dr. Angelo D'Agostino told the congregation of St. Clare of Assisi Church in Clairton about the plight of AIDS orphans in Africa... Read more›
Off to Kenya for a cause by GEORGE HESSELBERG
It has been more than two years since Sadie Bazur-Leidy and two of her eighth-grade friends brought home 58 backpacks from the O'Keeffe Middle School... Read More ›
MVMS teacher runs marathon for African kids
Goffetown News, By Rod Hansen
The sounds and language of the Congolese jungle erupted on a hillside in town earlier this month. Seventh-grade social studies teacher Andy Caulton, finishing up a 26-mile marathon... Read more ›
I Found a New life After Redundancy
Welsh Echo Saturday 14 January
Bridget's work makes great difference to African Orphans Read more ›
Loving God's Children: Jesuits in East Africa
By Father Donald Dunson
The Christmas spirit lasts all year round at Uganda's Children and Life Mission and Kenya's Nyumbani, homes for youth orphaned by AIDS. Read more ›
A journey to Africa: confronting AIDS, relations among religions, and the challenges of poverty
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
One of the occupational hazards of covering the Vatican is the tendency to assume that the real work of the Catholic church is done behind desks in the Apostolic Palace and the Palazzo delle Congregazioni. Seven days in Kenya and Uganda, Sept. 8-14, were more than enough to cure me of that illusion
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These kids, like, helped these other kids with AIDS?
Byline: George Hesselberg, Wisconsin State Journal, Thursday, June 10, 2004
You think your child brought a lot of stuff home from school? Sadie Bazur-Leidy and her girlfriends brought home 58 backpacks from O'Keeffe Middle School, 510 South Thornton Ave., this week. And the supplies to fill them. Not only that, this week, as school gets out, they are looking forward to when the backpacks are in use in the fall. Read more ›
Nanuet teacher back from helping Kenyan orphans
By KHURRAM SAEED THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original Publication: September 10, 2005)
Every school in Rockland has water fountains, toilets, chairs, lights and books, yet the items remind Laurie Ann Villafranco of things her "children" in Africa will never have.A reading specialist at Nanuet's middle and high schools, Villafranco recently returned from a two-month summer stay at Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya, an orphanage that cares for 93 children infected with HIV. Read more › |
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