When we visited Ethiopia to get our children we stopped by an orphanage for HIV+ kids called AHOPE. The children were beautiful and all in desperate need of families. The children can live a long productive life in America with the right medicines etc. In Ethiopia they will most likely live a short life. When the children are adopted they often can get sicker during the process while waiting for a waiver for adoption and travel to the states. My friend Carolyn has started an organization called
PROJECT HOPEFUL which educates and equips potential adoptive parents to take care of HIV+ kids...I just wanted to invite all of you to see what Carolyn is doing....feel free to visit her site by clicking on the badge in the right column of my blog or at the link on the name. But there are children all over the world in need of families including the UKRAINE, CHINA, GHANA as well as Ethiopia. We had chosen to adopt healthy kids because we really weren't well informed. For a minute our doctors in the states had thought our kids had Hep B because the Dr's weren't experienced with reading the markers (the kids are fine). But through the waiting period to find out if they were infected with Hep B I did some research. I discovered that in many ways the maintenance for HEP B would have been more difficult than if the kids had HIV. Just wanted to ask that you all read up on it a little as HIV doesn't carry the same tragic future as it once had and isn't as easily transmitted as some of the other infectious diseases out there. Children are very sad as they wait knowing that many don't want them. You should go to Carolyn's site and click on the link of the TV interview to see her beautiful daugher Selah.
Oh and because I know we have many readers from Illinois...Project Hopeful is based in Northern Illinois.
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