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Mariya Ruhlova hugs Senior Airman Paul Cummings in a grandmotherly way during a Manas Air Base Outreach Society visit at a Turkish restaurant in Bishkek, Kygryzstan, March 9. Mariya is known as a Babushka, or elderly woman, in Russian and Kyrgyz cultures. The 79-year-old woman has no family and was ?adopted,? along with two other elderly women, by MABOS through the Babushka Adoption Foundation, a local non-governmental organization. Each lady?s monthly income averages about 700 som or around $20 per month. Every month, volunteers from Manas join the ladies for lunch to share companionship, a little financial support and a small supply of groceries. Airman Cummings is assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Medical Group and is deployed from the 81st Medical Group at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Weinberg)
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