Beautiful Children

The children gave us a beautiful music program and then we put on the puppet show for them. There were not very many children staying at this orphanage over the holidays; some of the children in Russian orphanages are not "true" orphans with no parents but they may come from families who for financial or other reasons simply cannot support them. Some go home for the holidays to older siblings or to aunts and uncles but live at the orphanage the rest of the year. In the United States these kids would probably be in foster care, a system which has its own set of pluses and minuses.