Saturday, January 12, 2008

Woman overwhelmed by local support for her Ugandan orphans

Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008

VANCOUVER - Nothing prepared 23-year-old Carli Travers for the outpouring of support she received after sharing her story in The Vancouver Sun last week.

"I cried," said Travers, in a telephone interview from her three-bedroom apartment in Kampala, Uganda, where she is looking after six children she found begging on the street last year. "I was in shock."

Within hours of The Sun hitting the newsstand on Jan. 4, the recent Douglas College social work graduate had received dozens of e-mails from people who wanted to help.

Since then, the tally of supporters has climbed to 102, not including phone calls to her parent's home in Port Coquitlam.

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