Anchorage nurse runs orphanage in Ethiopia

By SARAH HENNING
(Published June 04, 2008)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When Chaltu Degefa's parents died, she and her siblings became seven of Ethiopia's estimated 4.6 million orphans. It's likely her parents died of AIDS, although she doesn't know for sure.

"We had to go and sleep on the streets," the girl wrote in a letter. "I don't know how long we lived on the street but we were still hunger and I was scared a lot."

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