Friday, March 02, 2007
564 children, and counting - MSNBC.com
Mother of seven dedicates her life to saving babies from abandonment
Despite safe surrender laws, hundreds of newborns are abandoned every year across the country. After one was found in a dumpster near her home, Magnusen started Project Cuddle with little more than a phone and a dream.
Ten years later, it's a nationwide crisis hot line with 1,400 volunteers and one goal: To save babies at risk of being abandoned.
"Debbe's wonderful," says Priscilla Alvarez, who has benefited from Project Cuddle. "She's very loving and she'll go out of her way to do anything for anybody, and she'll go all over the world just to save a baby."
Magnusen offered Alvarez clothes, care and what the homeless, frightened teen needed most, a friend, as she gave birth and gave up her daughter for adoption.
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Despite two kids of her own, five more she adopted, 30 she's been a foster mom to and the hundreds she's helped rescue, Magnusen feels she still could do more.
"What keeps me going is the thought of who I can save and the reminder of who I couldn't," she says.
Mother of seven dedicates her life to saving babies from abandonment
Despite safe surrender laws, hundreds of newborns are abandoned every year across the country. After one was found in a dumpster near her home, Magnusen started Project Cuddle with little more than a phone and a dream.
Ten years later, it's a nationwide crisis hot line with 1,400 volunteers and one goal: To save babies at risk of being abandoned.
"Debbe's wonderful," says Priscilla Alvarez, who has benefited from Project Cuddle. "She's very loving and she'll go out of her way to do anything for anybody, and she'll go all over the world just to save a baby."
Magnusen offered Alvarez clothes, care and what the homeless, frightened teen needed most, a friend, as she gave birth and gave up her daughter for adoption.
...
Despite two kids of her own, five more she adopted, 30 she's been a foster mom to and the hundreds she's helped rescue, Magnusen feels she still could do more.
"What keeps me going is the thought of who I can save and the reminder of who I couldn't," she says.
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