Look at this basket of beautiful Haitian babies with no Mommies or Daddies to care for them. Don't you just want to scoop them up right out of the picture and take them home with you? Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Parents are so desperate here to feed their children that there are actually people on the streets selling dirt patties to stave off the hunger pains so children can sleep. That same hunger is what leads older children to get high by sniffing glue. And there are many, many orphans here. Some have lost their parents to disease and others have been abandoned because their families cannot afford to care for them. Haiti is only about 90 miles from Florida. This kind of obscene poverty is right in our own backyard. The cries of these children testify against our affluence and apathy. When will we realize that they are all "our children" ? Every last one.
Tomorrow Rick and I are going to an informational meeting on International Adoption. Haiti is one of the programs we are considering, along with Ethiopia and the Philippines. I think I have looked at the picture of these babies in the basket about thousand times now. I can't wait for the day we when can actually welcome a child like this into our home.
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