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better career prospects. We ran towards a crisis, into unfamiliar terrain and figured it out as we went along. It was absurdly daunting and exhausting. Meeting this goals of our new charity would have been entirely impossible without Irena standing shoulder to shoulder with us rallying support and goodwill. In just over one year we have created 70 homes and placed 110 youth in their own beds. 110 young people can go to bed at night knowing they have an angel in Irena
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