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Article: Dennis Quaid, Intl. Hospital for Children.(STAR CHARITIES: FOCUS ON YOUTH)(International Hospital for Children)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- July 13, 2007
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Her name is Elka. And she was just 14 months old when Quaid first saw her on his third visit to Honduras for his charity, the Intl. Hospital for Children.
"She'd been living in a crib in this hospital that I could only describe as a bathroom in a dirty gas station," Quaid says. Elka, who was born without an esophagus, had been abandoned by her mother at birth.
"She got me," he says. "We brought her back to New Orleans, and they made an esophagus out of part of her stomach."
Elka is just one of many children the actor has rescued in his 20-year involvement with the New Orleans-based org. Quaid's passion for the Intl. Hospital for Children began ...