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Friday, January 25, 2013

for a matching grant for Anthony!


This is Anthony. He is 13-years old. He has Arthrogryposis is all limbs. He is an orphan living in Eastern Europe. He needs to be adopted ASAP. In order for this to happen he needs donations made to his adoption fund so when his family finds him they do not have to fundraise as much. Do you have just $5? Right now you could turn that $5 into $10 because someone will be matching your donation! http://arthrogryposisadoption.blogspot.com/2013/01/anthony-has-matching-grant.html Bring Hope to 12
This is Anthony. He is 13-years old. He has Arthrogryposis is all limbs. He is an orphan living in Eastern Europe. He needs to be adopted ASAP. In order for this to happen he needs donations made to his adoption fund so when his family finds him they do not have to fundraise as much. Do you have just $5? Right now you could turn that $5 into $10 because someone will be matching your donation! http://arthrogryposisadoption.blogspot.com/2013/01/anthony-has-matching-grant.html Bring Hope to 12
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for Anthony!


From Arthrogryposis Adoption: Anthony

http://arthrogryposisadoption.blogspot.com/

Our focus child for January has ZERO dollars toward the cost of his adoption! 

Lets change that! 

Remember it will cost around $20,000 to complete the adoption process for Anthony. 

I've had adoptive parents tell me that they were able to commit to their child because they knew a significant portion of the money it would cost to complete the paperwork had already been fundraised. 

So lets help lessen the financial barrier to Anthony getting a committed family! 

For every dollar donated between now and February 15th will be matched up to $1500 total!  

So $1 becomes $2
$5 becomes $10 
$12 becomes $24 
$50 becomes $100

Every.Single.Dollar WILL help!! 

He has waited for THIRTEEN YEARS 

He Turns 14 on February 15th so lets get $3,000 into his account by that time! 

Lets ensure he doesn't have to wait in 2014 too! 




http://arthrogryposisadoption.blogspot.com/

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These are grim statistics about what is happening in the orphan crisis.  Fewer children are being allowed to be adopted out of orphanages where care is substandard.  Please read this article.  It is vital that willing parents are able to adopt these children.  share, donate, pray



Intercountry Adoption Numbers Continue to Decline 

January 25, 2013 – Alexandria, VA – This week the U.S. Department of State released its FY 2012 Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption. According to the report, American families adopted 8,668 foreign-born children in 2012, a decline from the 9,319 that they adopted in 2011 – making 2012 the eighth straight year in which intercountry adoptions have decreased since the peak year of 2004, when close to 23,000 children were adopted from other countries.

Intercountry adoptions by American families began in the 1950s, when Harry and Bertha Holt appealed to Congress to change existing law and allow Americans to adopt children from other countries. Although the numbers were relatively low in those early years, intercountry adoptions to the U.S. began to rise sharply in the 1990s, following the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in Romania. It was learned that tens of thousands of children had been orphaned or abandoned, and were living in orphanages in Romania. Americans responded by adopting thousands of these orphaned and vulnerable children.

In 2008, the U.S. implemented The Hague Adoption Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption (The Hague Convention), an international agreement established to provide universal protections and regulations for the adoption of children and promote cooperation among signatories of the agreement. 

Many advocates believed that The Hague Convention would result in increased opportunities for orphaned and abandoned children to find safe, permanent, loving families through intercountry adoption, but that has not occurred. No new countries have opened intercountry adoption programs under The Hague Convention since the treaty was implemented by the U.S., and several countries have closed to address issues within their adoption programs and reorganize under a new Hague Convention-compliant system.

The number of intercountry adoptions will likely continue to decline as adoption programs in both Hague and non-Hague nations slow or shut down. American families adopted nearly 1,000 Russian-born orphans in 2011, but Russia recently banned Americans from adopting Russian orphans as a result of the U.S. passage of the Magnitsky Act in December 2012. Two Countries, Vietnam and Cambodia, have recently announced their succession to the Hague Convention and readiness to resume intercountry adoption with the U.S. but as yet the U.S. has not agreed to work with them on behalf of children in need of a family.

"The decline in the number of intercountry adoptions has occurred at a time when the global orphan population has increased dramatically," notes Chuck Johnson, president and CEO of National Council For Adoption. "There are millions upon millions of children living outside of permanent family care – and for many, their best chance at securing a loving and permanent family is through intercountry adoption. The continued decline in intercountry adoptions is not good for children, and it is a disgrace and a travesty that more isn't being done to offer children the hope of a family through intercountry adoption."

NCFA continues to support The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which requires much stronger oversight and greater transparency in the intercountry adoption process. "The Hague Convention is a foundation for transparent, ethical, and lawful adoption practices, and now that it is in place we must use it," says Chuck Johnson. "We must do more to expand opportunities for children in need of families to be adopted by those qualified and eager to adopt. We call upon children's advocates, child welfare officials, and government stakeholders in all nations to work together more effectively on behalf of orphaned and abandoned children, with the sense of compassion and urgency they deserve."

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Adria Anderson
Development and Communications Associate
National Council For Adoption
225 N. Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

T: 703.299.6633 | F: 703.299.6004
aanderson@adoptioncouncil.org
www.adoptioncouncil.org
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Monday, January 21, 2013

ruminations

This is me when I first started this blog.
Jesus says: what so ever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.











What can I do for the least of these, these children of God, my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I fell in love with this little boy and was moved to start to do something even if it was just this little blog.

And this is me now

I have figured out what I have to do for the orphans of Eastern Europe.  The words came to me when I was pondering (see photo above).  I took the words right off of Julia's blog.  and decided I was going to SCREAM and YELL for these ophans.  Igor was my first post.  He has a family now.

Here is Victoria who I blogged about here and here.  It took a lot of screaming and yelling and she also has a family now.  I am not taking credit for that, because so many other people were also blogging and fundraising for her.  

Then from many friends I found out that this 15 year old girl needed to be adopted quickly because on her 16th birthday she would be transferred to a mental institution.  She has a family now also.
She is now Alexandra Harlan and she has six brothers and sisters.


I have started to share these orphan stories with my 7th grade students who I teach in a Bible study.   Their eyes have been opened and their hearts also.  They asked to do a fundraiser for the orphans.   I found out that I can do small deeds and make a difference to one of these.
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for JOSEPH IGOR PATTERSON!!!


Remember this charming little guy? He was listed on Reece's Rainbow Adoption Ministry website as "Igor" Many people prayed for him and rallied together to find a family for him.  His new family traveled recently to Ukraine and adopted him and now he is Joseph Igor Patterson.

for Eva Claire

Anastasia is living in Arkansas now with her loving parents.  The isolation she experienced in the Ukrainian orphanage is over.   There are hardly words to describe the incredible change of fortune this means for her.   Loving arms, cuddles, laughs, warm bed, good food, a clean bed - all the things that are the most basic are the simple comforts she didn't have.  Here is "Anastasia" as the daughter she has become - she is Eva Claire