How To Help The Baghdad Orphans
If You Saw Lara Logan's Piece And Want To Help, Here's How
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Play CBS Video Video Iraq's Hidden Shame U.S. troops were shocked to discover more than 20 starving children at a government-run orphanage in Baghdad. Lara Logan reports.
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Video Orphans Left To Starve In Iraq U.S. troops found an orphanage full of starving, neglected children in Baghdad, where it appears the orphanage director may have selling the facility's supplies to local markets. Lara Logan reports.
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Video Eye To Eye: Baghdad Orphanage Only On The Web: U.S. and Iraqi forces rescued more than 20 emaciated children who were living in appalling conditions at a Baghdad orphanage. Lara Logan talked to some of the soldiers.
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A scene of horror at the orphanage where U.S. troops found more than 20 malnourished and wounded boys is shown in this photo given to CBS News. (CBS)
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A U.S. soldier carries a disabled orphan after he was found with more than 20 other boys, starving and chained to beds last week. Photo given to CBS News. (CBS)
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Photo Essay Baghdad Orphanage Horror U.S., Iraqi soldiers rescue 24 severely malnourished and abused boys.
The boys were discovered emaciated, wounded and tied to beds. Troops brought the boys to safety, and they are were being nursed back to health.
Since, Logan has checked up on them in their new orphanage, and found them more comfortable, but still trapped in a life very different than that an American special needs child would live.
She also reported, sadly, that on July 23, 2007, one of the boys, young Saddam Ali Abbas, died from his many health problems.
CBS News has received hundreds of calls, e-mails and comments asking for ways to help the orphans. Due to the sensitivity of the situation, CBS News is taking requests for more information.Logan's first report on the orphanage.
Watch the report.
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Please CLICK HERE to send an e-mail to the CBS Evening News, and we will put you in contact with a U.S.-based non-profit organization that has promised to ensure that the help will go to the orphans.
See the images given to CBS News of the orphanage and the rescue - and beginning of their medical recovery. Check out Logan's Reporter's Notebook on the story. Watch extended video of Logan’s interviews with the soldiers who rescued the orphans. Read Logan's update on the orphans. Watch Logan's follow-up report. Rescued Iraqi Orphan Dies Honoring Those Who Saved Iraqi Orphans© MMVII, CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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