Known for beautiful churches and public buildings, many churches were rebuilt after the fall of the Soviet Union, to their old splendor. Kids from Kutujanie Orphanage enjoying a day in town. The girls at Kutujanie Orphanage inspect their new wash basins. During our 1998 mission to Managua, Nicaragua, Denise Guaglianone, ARNP, made several friends at the Hogar El Nino Orphanage near Managua. At the orphanage, run by Sister Theresa of the Sisters of Charity, our leftover bottled water, courtesy of Zephyrhills Water Company is left for the children's use.
Water is a problem at the orphanage where they depend on cisterns and the rainy season.
Eduardo, father of seven in Cajone, Peru tastes soup from a can for the first time. Lack of proper nutrition contributes to many of the medical problems found in developing countries. Margarethe, above, lives on the island of Upolu in Samoa, in the South Pacific. Her parents died when she was a baby. Samoa has no orphanages.