American teen brings a playground to Siberian orphanage


	American teen brings a playground to Siberian orphanage

infidel70

8-23-2009 8:47 PM

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8-24-2009 1:02 AM

cakebelly

Cool story, infidel - nice clip

8-24-2009 9:46 AM

Satchamo

A lot of people don't know about Rotary clubs, but combining the Boy Scouts and Rotary, look what Americans can do. Also, reminds me of the man and what he is doing from "Three cups of Tea." All are small projects in the grand scheme of things, but look how they change lives.

8-24-2009 4:33 PM

carrerinyes

What a great kid. The parents must be very proud of him

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										Alex Griffith (second from left) is thanked for his contributions to the playground at the Krasnoyarsk orphanage of his birth.
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Alex Griffith doesn't remember it, but he lived the first year of his life at a Siberian hospital for abandoned children where the playground consisted of a single metal swing and an unkempt sandbox.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/bal-md.ha.playground23aug23,0,4828171.story"><DIV>
Today, because of the efforts of the North Harford High School sophomore, the play area has slides, a climbing wall and dozens of other pieces, and has become a symbol of friendship and cooperation between two nations separated by an ocean and vastly different ideologies.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/bal-md.ha.playground23aug23,0,4828171.story"><DIV>
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He was adopted in 1994 by Dwight and Jenny Griffith of Jarrettsville. As he grew, the Griffiths shared their journal of their trip to <A id="PLGEO00000025" title="Russia" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/intl/russia-PLGEO00000025.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Russia</A> with their son, one of their five adopted children.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9918C1B9-8BAE-44D3-995B-570184F647E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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