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India Sisters Project

India is arranging more domestic adoptions to find local homes for children, but many infants, especially those with medical issues, remain overlooked in orphanages and in need of one-to-one attention and early intervention. Our India Sisters Project, a new collaboration with adoption expert Dr. Laurie Miller (of Tufts Floating Hospital) and ASHA (which helps impoverished women in India) is helping babies in an orphanage in Pune. The children were recently assessed by a developmental pediatrician. Now, with women from ASHA serving as trained caregivers for the infants, the babies benefit from attentive care that they would otherwise go without, and the women gain job skills and income. If you'd like to support this program, just click here.