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Bollywood actress adopts 34 girls from orphanage

Preity Zinta in 2008, photo by IndiaFM

Preity Zinta, a popular Bollywood actress, has announced her adoption of 34 girls from the Mother Miracle orphanage in the Indian city of Rishikesh. Though the girls will not live with Zinta, all 34 girls will be financially supported by the actress, according to The Times of India. She plans to visit the girls twice a year and to keep in touch with them throughout the year.

In addition to the 34 girls, Preity Zinta plans to continue adopting orphaned girls. She will adopt a few girls each year, she said, in order to help with the enormous problem of orphaned and abandoned children in India.

In India, the combination of widespread poverty and a cultural preference for boys has led to a disproportionate number of girls abandoned at orphanages. With infanticide an enormous problem in the country, orphanages place cots outside their doors where babies can be abandoned. This has resulted in about 11 million children who have been abandoned by their parents. Among those abandoned children, about 90 percent are girls. The problem has become so widespread that India recently asked for more Western couples to consider adopting Indian children.

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