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Dr Elizabeth Hynd
Dr. Elizabeth Hynd is a white woman in a sea of black faces, but she is not out of place. She grew up in Swaziland. Her father
was a doctor there. Her grandmother was a teacher. Her great-grandfather established the medical program in the country.
The Hynd name is known and respected.
Today this highly educated and well-travelled woman is devoting her time and energy to a disaster that nobody saw coming.
An entire generation of adults is being wiped out by AIDS in Swaziland, leaving thousands of children without parents, teachers,
homes, security. Dr. Hynd has founded the New Hope Center, with a capacity for 120 orphans, and her dream is to multiply these
centers throughout the country in order to give love and hope to the children she proudly calls "tomorrow's leaders."
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About the New Hope Center
The New Hope Center in Bethany, Swaziland, is the permanent home of 18 children, aged two to fourteen, of whom all living
relatives have been victims of the AIDS pandemic. Every six months, it welcomes six more children. This center is set up
to train children to later be 'foster parents' who offer their homes as mini-orphanages. The training will deal with the special
needs of loss, abandonment, and bereavement that these children face.
This Home serves as a model for other orphanages to be opened throughout the nation, as the finance becomes available
to meet the tragic pandemic increase of parentless children.
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