What makes an effective NGO: being a culturally relevant change agent
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In February 2010, a group of American missionaries went to Haiti to assist children orphaned in the January earthquake. The group had plans to set up an orphanage in the Dominican Republic and to transport orphaned children across the border, eventually arranging adoptions into American families. The group was arrested during this process when government agencies discovered the missionaries had no papers for taking the children out of the country. Furthermore, reports soon emerged that many of the children had at least one living parent in Haiti.
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