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The 4-foot 9-inch OB nurse curls her knees up towards her chin as she sits on her couch, black ringlets fall across her face. The movement suddenly hides her brown eyes—the gateway to ten years of life-changing memories.

“In 2002 I broke down emotionally. I came back weeping (after visiting a Mother Theresa orphanage),” said Debbie Lee. “It’s not that I haven’t seen poverty that deep. I didn’t know if the kids would survive the night. We’re sheltered from that aren’t we?”

There are more than two million orphans in Kenya, many abandoned because of disease and abuse. But as extravagant a number as this is, one Missoula resident is determined to help see it drop drastically—one bracelet at a time. Full profile