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Incense burning on Odetta's guitar as she performs at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1970. Photos by Doug Griffin.

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“[The Traveling Wilburys] chose [‘Nobody’s Child’], thought it was a perfect song, and it was. It was really generous of them, because they were in full flow recording the second album and they stopped, it was literally - I woke up, and he called me. They were still awake. 'We did this… He knew, you know, George knew I wouldn’t ask, and he knew tones of my voice and obviously knew it was serious and how I was feeling there. Because it was pretty horrific. And in fact the Romanian Angel Appeal’s still going. It has been adopted as a program by the government there, so they’re still helping children.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio (2018) “People ask me, ‘Why this cause?’ I don’t know. It just hit me. I wake up thinking of faces I saw there. They haunt me. I just have to do it.” - Olivia Harrison, New York Daily News (April 29, 1990) “I remembered that old song from the late ‘50s, ‘Nobody’s Child’ — Lonnie Donegan had it on one of his albums. I could remember a bit of how the tune went but I didn’t know the words. I eventually got in touch with Joe Brown in London who knew the first verse but not the rest. So I wrote the second verse lyric myself (‘In every town and village there are places just like this/With rows and rows of children, babies in their cribs/They’ve long since stopped their crying/As no one ever hears/And there’s no one there to notice them or take away their fears’). […] [Organizing the charity album is] nothing compared to what Olivia and all the carpenters and electricians who are giving their time for free are doing. This is just my small contribution.” - George Harrison, Q Magazine (1990) “Olivia Harrison is George Harrison’s widow, one of the former Beatles. She is slim, gentle, and beautiful, a discreet and loving person. All her life she has been involved in helping children in need throughout the world, and I am one of them. I was one of the many abandoned children from Romania and she decided to help us through her Romanian Angel Appeal organization. My mother met her and worked as a Portage teacher in all the projects. Olivia Harrison started her work in Romania, renovating the buildings where abandoned children lived and improving their living conditions. Then she realized that children also needed an education and she trained educators. Her next involvement was with HIV children, providing proper medication for the Day Clinics, educators for the abandoned HIV children in hospitals and a Mobile Unit for those living with their families. My mother met Olivia Harrison when the Educational Program started. She traveled everywhere Romanian Angel Appeal had projects and she had the opportunity to see abandoned children considered with ‘special needs’ become ‘normal’ as a result of the love and care of the educators. My mom and dad, having no children of their own, decided to adopt me and my twin brother. When we were old enough to understand this important change in our lives they told us the truth. I don’t consider them being less parents than others; on the contrary, I think they did a heroic thing. Everything I have written about I know from my mother, but I also did my own research on the Internet. I admire all the Beatles’ wives for what they have done, but most of all I worship Olivia Harrison. If she hadn’t met my mother, my brother and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to live in a loving family. She gave us a chance to live a better life and I’m grateful for that.” - Bianca-Cristina from Constanta, Romania, myhero dot com (August 28, 2011)

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