Renaldo Parris finds refuge with kind stranger

Orphaned and abandoned

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For most of his young life Renaldo Parris has worked, fought hunger and slept on the streets with nowhere to turn. Abandoned at a very young age after his parents’ death, Renaldo had to fend for himself on his own.

“He has nothing,” says Ivy Harris, 64. “He has no documents, no birth certificate. He ain’t even know when he born.”

Renaldo thinks he is 11 years old. These days when other children go to school, he doesn’t. Touched by his plight during the Christmas season last year, …..


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