“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“More than 95 percent of these children [in orphanages] have living parents. … The primary drivers behind institutionalization are poverty, disability and ethnicity.”
— Georgette Mulheir
Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
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“The systematic institutionalization of children … is the one form of child abuse that we could eradicate in our lifetime.”
— Georgette Mulheir
Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
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