b'Michael John Carroll Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causaPhotographer and Non-Profit Founder Michael Carroll was one of the first photographers to travel to Romania after the fall of the communist regime in 1989, where he encountered horrific scenes. His incredible photographs and heart wrenching stories of the pediatric AIDS epidemic in Romania ran in The Boston Globe and The New York Times. Those images brought the plight of Romanian children to the western world. The twenty-year odyssey for Mike and his colleagues, as they fought to bring help to a population of children in need in a country that they hardly knew, followed, and changed the lives of over a hundred sixty thousand orphans, forever. His story is told in Hand Held, a documentary that was produced and directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Don Hahn. Following the release of the film, Fundatia Inocenti / Romanian Childrens Relief (RCR), a foundation that supports Romanian children and families in need and works to prevent child abandonment, was founded. Inocenti has offered specialized professional therapy and services to children and families in need since 1990 and was formally incorporated as a Romanian charitable foundation, Fundatia Inocenti, in 1998. Today, Inocenti has three different types of programs in RomaniaChild Life Hospital programs, Educational Support programs and Early Intervention, and serves thousands of children and families each year. 6'
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