On a visit to Haiti, Barbara Walker noticed that a penned rooster had a better life than children living on the streets and in some orphanages. Follow this ordinary woman's journey as she finds homes for almost two thousand abandoned and orphaned children and builds Ruuska Village for street women who had no means of survival for themselves and their children.

"Those first days were very hard," Barbara said. "The women were used to fighting for everything they needed, and they had very poor self-esteem. I separated many wild catfights among the women."

Barbara's no-nonsense...