Finding “another half of the heart”
Nine years ago, a four-year-old boy arrived in Almaty by train from Petropavlovsk. Here, in Talgar, a town in southern Kazakhstan, “Kovcheg” (Russian for “ark” — translator’s note ) was expecting him. The kids who live here would not call this place a children’s home. “We’re a family,” says a serious girl standing at the entrance to the courtyard…