61. All the while, Matte kept up the appearance of a caring priest who was deeply committed to helping children. 62. All proceeds will go to New Yorkers for Children, a charity that helps children in foster care. 63. All this in the service of a national campaign to encourage volunteers to help children. 64. Bush presented his proposals to strengthen marriages and families, which critics assert is an inappropriate realm for the government, as a way to help children. 65. But all the relief organizations we contacted are doing things specifically to help these children. 66. But both our global and domestic systems for helping these children are so hopelessly fragmented, oppositional, bureaucratic, mercenary, or self-involved, that nothing ever happens. 67. But Dr. Pierre Gauthier, left, works with an Afghan nurse in Kabul to help a child who lost his legs during the fighting. 68. But for more than eight years, precious funds to help children were wasted and misused. 69. But he was able to focus on the idea of helping children at Our Lady of Mercy and a Dublin hospital that recently started a collaborative effort. 70. But if detected early enough, he said, steps can be taken to help the child. |