
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 7, 1994                   TAG: 9407270085
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Betsy Biesenbach staff writer
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Not so long ago in this country, when a child with a handicap was born into a family, he or she would be locked away from society or put into an institution. Sometimes they were simply warehoused, rather thatn taught useful skills for living. The family often was embarrassed and ashamed of the child.

This attitude still persists in many other countries. Johnson Masuka of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, who works with disabled people in his homeland, is trying to change that kind of thinking in his part of the world.

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