Saturday, January 12, 2008

On a mission to help African kids, William Jewell student launches an orphanage

By JASON NOBLE
The Kansas City Star


The first thing one observes about Amanda Dye is her intensity — she’s driven, she’s single-minded and she talks fast.

But that temperament has served the William Jewell College student well.

Dye, 23, opened the Energy of Hope orphanage last January in Zambia, a South African nation where 16.5 percent of the population has HIV or AIDS. Now the orphanage has 13 children, ages 6 to 14. Dye, who runs the orphanage from Liberty, is the children’s legal guardian and is responsible for financing their care and education.

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