In the UK Telegraph, Angus McDowall and Abdullah Al Muyid visit the Bangladesh orphanage from where John and Cindy McCain adopted their daughter, Bridget
A nun at the orphanage from where John and Cindy McCain adopted a baby girl 17 years ago
The adopted daughter of the party’s presidential nominee, had been plucked from a Dhaka orphanage as a desperately ill baby girl after a cyclone struck Bangladesh in 1991.
Shyly waving from the podium, the epitome of the bashful schoolgirl, Bridget charmed the hall full of Republican activists gathered last week to acclaim their party’s choice for president.
It was a world away from her roots in the backstreet orphanage in Dhaka, capital of one of the world’s poorest countries, which The Sunday Telegraph traced last week.
Around the Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa Children’s Home, the streets are so full and chaotic that it is easier to go on foot than ride a rickshaw or moped through the bustling crowds.
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