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Week of April 11, 2009

Rwanda's Orphans
Photo by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch.
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This month marks the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, in which nearly a million people died.

The children who were orphaned by the killings are now young adults. Some have found a way to overcome the loss of their families: they create new families with other orphans, complete with a "mother" and "father." Anna Boiko-Weyrauch tells the story of one such family at the Kigali Institute of Education in the Rwandan capital.

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