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First Place
Carolyn Drake Hotshoe
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There are over 100,000 children residing in
government institutions in Ukraine today. The majority of them are social
orphans, children whose parents are unavailable due to drug and alcohol abuse
and the resultant hardships. Eighty girls between the ages of 5 and 25 live
in near isolation in the Petrokhiv Children's building, a Soviet institution
built in the 1960s to house girls with mental disabilities. With the facility
understaffed, there are few planned activities, and little preparation for
their release at the age of 25. A teenage orphan dances to pop music blasted through
an old boom box.
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