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The episode features a discussion with human rights consultant Marliee Marks about her family's experiences in El Salvador during a severe orphan crisis.

Send us Fan Mail A 13-year-old holding her infant son in an institution is not a statistic. It is a life that forces you to rethink what “help” really means. We sit down with human rights and foreign policy consultant Marilee Marks to talk about her family’s years living and working in El Salvador during a brutal orphan crisis shaped by poverty, abandonment, addiction, and gender-based violence. The stories are tender, unsettling, and grounded in the daily reality of trying to keep children s...

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Host: Dr Ariella (Ariel) Rosita King

Guest: Marliee Marks

Topics covered

• human rights
• foreign policy
• orphan crisis
• poverty
• gender-based violence

Keywords

• human rights
• El Salvador
• orphan crisis
• poverty
• gender-based violence
• foreign policy
• consultant

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Places: El Salvador

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