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Clockwise from top left: Sister Deva makes sure that even the youngest child eats a healthy meal at the Secunderabad
Orphanage & Empowerment Center, which houses 70 girls. Reena at age nine and in the third grade, going off to
school. For lack of space, one cover is used for three or four girls at the Secunderabad Orphanage. Homes of Hope is
building a new home for the girls, which will be ready later this year.
We
had seen the
magnificence
of India, but
we had also
witnessed the
horrific condi-tions
of the
street people.
The children
especially
haunted
us.
”
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF PAUL WILKES