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The Stauffers adopted Autumn three years ago based on that photo they saw in the Heart Gallery Orange County, a national effort to photograph and display portraits of children in need of adoptive families. The Register wrote about the family at the time, and a few months ago the Stauffers decided they wanted the world to know how she was doing. |
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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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the video clip (4:24) |
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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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Watch
the short segment from
CNN American Morning (3:32)
Watch
the longer segment
from 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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