The boys at Christ Child House on Detroit’s west side are part of Michigan’s foster care system and its more than 6,000 legal orphans. As they wait to be reunified with families or adopted, they share tears and tantrums, giggles and hugs, uncertain futures and some surprisingly happy endings.
Free Press photographer Kathleen Galligan was the catalyst for this project, spending over three years at the boys home to document life through photography. Brian Kaufman spent one year shooting video there. The project led to the adoption of several children at Christ Child House and received local and national attention. It was the recipient of a national Emmy award and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
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Video produced for The Detroit Free Press by Brian Kaufman. Photography by Kathleen Galligan. Additional photography by Regina Boone.