<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/summer-1996/heartbreaking-healings.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Heartbreaking Healings</title><excerpt>Kurt ‘76 and Kristi Stranlund Fredrickson ‘75 and their two teenage children opened their Simi Valley, California, home to a three-year-old Honduran boy last December as part of the Healing the Children program. The non-profit organization helps children obtain life-saving medical treatment not available in their home countries. They tell foster families, “We bring the kids in, fix their hearts, and then break yours.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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