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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Children
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Every
Invisible
Make
Birth
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Everyone
Priority
Give
Birthday

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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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