UNICEF: Giving children in Tajikistan a place to call home

SHARINAU, Tajikistan, 23 September 2008 In the countryside outside Dushanbe this summer, children in shorts and swim suits were leaping into a fountain, squealing with delight. They came from a boarding school for orphans but were spending several weeks in a summer camp where they could take a holiday from their studies and escape the heat.

This experience was a dramatic contrast from several months before, when the children were shivering in unheated rooms, suffering through one of Tajikistans worst winters on record.

Unseasonably cold temperatures caused water and electrical systems to fail. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country were threatened with shortages of food and supplies.

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[endou mamoro]

soo happy n sad at the same time love from india

[Afghanec Khurasan]

i was raised in Shahrinau orphan school in Tajikistan from 1987 to 1995 My god help orphans:)