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"LAKEWOOD - There are nearly 600 children of all ages and ethnicities in Los Angeles County who cannot safely live with their birth families. The Los Angeles County Children and Family Services Department is looking for adoptive families as the children want to be part of a permanent loving family. Heart Gallery LA helps them find families by teaming up with volunteer professional photographers to create a traveling gallery of photos of the waiting children, which capture their true beauty and spirit. Ron Roberson reports. " |
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"The purpose behind the project,
called the Heart Gallery, is to help find
families for them by using professional
photographers to personalize them -- to bring
out the spirit and individuality that are all
too often invisible in the typical shots that
accompany the children's files once they have
entered the foster care system." |
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"More than 150 photographers,
including TIME contributors, have given their
time and vision to produce a unique portfolio of
children in need of parents." |
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Tina Anjozian is one of the project’s
founding photographers. She joins Kitty in
studio to discuss her involvement and this
unique approach to adoption. |
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"Nearly one hundred thirty thousand
children in the U.S. public welfare system are
waiting to be adopted. Most are eight years old,
or even older. Now though, there is a new
strategy to get them a home." |
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"I'm just waiting for the perfect
home. I just, just keep waiting for the perfect
one at the right time. Maybe when I get older, I
might take a foster kid and adopt them so if I'm
not going to get helped, I'm going to help
someone else. So any way I win." |
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CNN Daybreak (3:54) |
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"Organizers hope that if more people
see compelling portraits of Jaillah and other
children like him - life-size and lively - more
will consider adoption." |
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"This spring, Hiram's portrait will
join those of more than 300 other New Jersey
foster children at an exhibit titled Heart
Gallery of New Jersey. If all goes well, adults
who visit the exhibit (or view the photos online
at www.heartgallerynj.com) will be moved to
adopt." |
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"They're photographing the children
with the same dignity and respect that they
would give to big stars and CEOs,' notes Feanny.
'They're bringing the same lights and
assistants, the same backdrops.' One boy, she
recalls, said to his social worker, 'I feel like
a movie star." |
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