Suffer the Children ; Help a London Child Helps Thousands of Projects. Rory Clements Finds Out About One of Them
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WHEN Rosie Turner took a break from teaching to do voluntary work in a Romanian orphanage, she was horrified by what she found. The children, all infected by HIV, were treated as outcasts because people believed, wrongly, that they were infectious.
"There was a huge amount of ignorance and fear," she says. "The children weren't treated as human beings and there was a lot of abuse. It was incredibly hard when I saw the nurses treating the children badly and I did get very angry."See the full content of this document
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Suffer the Children ; Help a London Child Helps Thousands of Projects. Rory Clements Finds Out About One of Them
A lesser person might have shrunk away from the suffering she encountered.
Turner, however, decided she wanted to devote her life to children with HIV.Returning to London, she eschewed teaching...See the full content of this document