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Liberia recoverty
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A boy lies on a worn-out sponge at Dixiville Home of Children, which fosters over 50 deaf-mute orphans, in Monrovia, Liberia, May 5, 2008. The country's 14-year civil war, which ended in 2003, left tens of thousands of war orphans. Years of poverty, conflict and corruption have left the country's orphanages short of funds to feed the large number of deprived children..