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| According to the National Adoption Coalition of South Africa (Nacsa), of abandoned children in South Africa are newborn and are younger than one year. Some of abandonment locations are cited as unsafe, with common places including sewers, gutters, drains and toilets. |
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| WFCF Mission |
| World Forgotten Children Foundation (WFCF) is a private non-profit effort, founded for the sole purpose of supporting projects that promote the health and welfare needs of orphaned children with disabilities in developing countries. |
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Total Funds Raised: $13,870 |
During the month of June, the World Forgotten Children Foundation (WFCF) hosted its first-ever
"Faces You Can't Forget – Month of Giving". See how individuals worldwide participated in the event...
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For a child who has been abandoned or is suffering from another physical disability, getting POTS is a possibility, and it is seemingly impossible for these children to be able to fully explain what is bothering them,
or for them to tell if it is a separate illness or not. That is why doctors and researchers around the world are working hard to bring more awareness to this debilitating illness, in hopes to eventually find a cure...
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Parents of children with health complications or disabilities in Russia are often pressured into turning their children over to the state. Citing issues like the children will not be able to develop and form relationships, and that they will not live out a full life, leading parents to feel forced to hand their children over to state-run orphanages...
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Despite being home to some of the world’s most valuable and coveted resources, including gold, diamond, oil, and uranium, just to name a few, this region located south of the Sahara Desert is arguably one of the poorest regions worldwide. Things like poverty, diseases, and malnutrition are rampant, consequently stacking the deck against newborn babies and children under the age of five, the most vulnerable members of society...
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After a long winter, the staff at IGI Global decided to take advantage of a nice spring day and gathered together outside of their Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA office for a picture wearing their World Forgotten Children Foundation (WFCF) polo shirts. Since WFCF’s inception more than 15 years ago, IGI Global, an international academic publishing house, has been a very dedicated corporate sponsor of the foundation...
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| In This Issue |
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Recently, Dr. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Executive Director of WFCF, was interviewed on the television program Good Day PA! at ABC Channel 27, a local news station in Central Pennsylvania, USA.
View the recorded interview here. |
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| Kind Words |
“On behalf of myself, the ACP staff, the community and the kids, thank you. Everyone has been told of your generosity in funding this project, making it possible.”
- Garry Brooks, African Community Project |
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| Before you enter the UN building in New York City, you will see the following poem by famous Persian poet Saadi of the 13th century called “Bani Aadam” inscribed on the UN building entrance. |
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The sons of Adam are limbs of each other,
Having been created of
one essence.
When the calamity of time affects one limb
The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If you have no sympathy for the trouble of others
You are unworthy to
be called by the name
of
a human. |
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