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“Children who have not asked to be born are entitled to a home” María López Michelsen

When Maria Lopez Michelsen founded La Casa de la Madre y el Niño in 1942, it was difficult to imagine that her work would continue from generation to generation and that is would set an example in Colombia and the rest of the world regarding how to bring adoptive parents together with a child , how to reach out to pregnant mothers and how to protect vulnerable children. La Casa, as is familiarly known, was the first private institution in Colombia dedicated to this kind of work. In fact, it was founded thirty-one years before the ICBF (the Colombian Family Welfare Institute), the public entity in charge of children in Colombia.
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