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Apr 29, 2009
"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe." --Joanna Macy
Student Buys Orphanage
Amy Lambert, 24, spent eight weeks last summer caring for the 150 boys and girls, who were crammed six to a single bed. All the children -- who had lost parents to Aids -- were starving and dehydrated, with most wracked with malaria. So when Amy, an undergraduate at Bath Spa University, returned to Britain she organized a series of charity events -- raising 30,000 pounds in seven months. She then asked cash-strapped authorities in Tanzania if she could buy the dilapidated Kichijo Orphanage. Says Amy, "These children are the most beautiful, selfless people I have ever met. I was prepared for things to be difficult in Africa but what I witnessed broke my heart."
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