Some sobering facts on a part of the world few Americans think about, and even fewer ever see:
Uganda, the landlocked nation in East Africa, has 2.5 million orphans — or one-fifth of the country’s kids between the ages of 6 and 17.
One in seven kids die before their fifth birthday.
Name a calamity, and Ugandas have endured it.
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