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Portraits of promise (Kenosha News)

Sara Radulovicâ??s blonde hair falls in her face as she peers at the image coming to life on the table in front of her. She gently uses a brown, colored pencil to shade in the forehead of a portrait of Moses, a Ugandan orphan who lost both parents to AIDS.

The program is the brainchild of Ben Schumaker, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was inspired to start the Memory Project while volunteering in Guatemala in 2003.