Melissa Fay Green answers this question in her book There is No Me Without You:
“Adoption is not the answer to HIV/AIDS in Africa. Adoption rescues few. Yet, adoption illustrates by example: these few once-loved children - who lost their parents to preventable diseases - have been offered a second chance at family life in foreign countries; like young ambassadors, they instruct us. From them, we gain impressions about what their age-mates must be like, the ones living and dying by the millions, without parents, in the cities and villages of Africa. For every orphan turning up in a northern-hemisphere household - winning the spelling bee, winning the cross-country race, joining the Boy Scouts, learning to rollerblade, playing the trumpet or the violin - ten thousand African children remain behind alone.” pp. 24-25
(HT: Jason Kovacs)
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Yes...nobody can save the world...only God can do that...but we are capable of doing something...we are limited to save one maybe. Whats wrong with that? In my family we sponsor children ...we may not be able to save the world...but we saved maybe few...If more people will do that...there will be hope for manny!!!
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