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Braselton teen collects books for Belize orphanage from which she was adopted
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Alina Rodriguez, in pink dress, has been returning annually to the Belize orphanage from which she was adopted as a toddler as a part of her Alina Gives Back charitable efforts. The 13-year-old Braselton resident is holding an April 30 book drive to collect new and used books for this summer’s outreach effort near the orphanage.
What began as a child’s question about other children without toys remaining in the Belize orphanage from which she was adopted has become an ongoing mission of a Braselton family. Alina Gives Back is a nonprofit for which Alina Rodriguez, now 13 and a 10th-grader Georgia Cyber Academy student, returns to Belize to deliver toys and toiletries and host a dinner meal and a summer day camp at the orphanage. Dominique Rodriguez and her husband had struggled for years to conceive a child and began to explore adoption.