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Family-Based Care Keeps Families Together

Ghana, Haiti, Nepal, Congo   Birth Families, Orphan and Family Aid, Christian, Family and Community Support, Ways to Help

The latest UNICEF statistics show there are more than 144 million orphans worldwide. The majority of these children do have a parent. Bethany Christia...

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BlinkNow: A Beauty in the Commotion

Nepal   Child Sponsorship, Education, Ways to Help

Earlier this year we featured BlinkNow and it's founder, Maggie Doyne, in our Get Involved: Ways to Help area. BlinkNow is a Nepal base...

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BlinkNow: Nepal

Nepal   Child Sponsorship, Education, Orphanage Support, Family and Community Support, Ways to Help, Safety

You may have heard of Maggie Doyne.  A few years ago a video, A 23 Year Old Mother of 30, produced by The Do Lectures and featuring Maggie c...

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Take Chances, Get Messy!: Adopting an Older Child

Nepal   Older Child Adoption, Family Adoption Stories

I will never forget how I felt the day my daughter reached for my hand as we were walking side-by-side. We had just left her school. I had taken her h...

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To Be Frank: Nepal Adoption

Nepal   Adoption News

Today I opened the “about us” tab on the website of Frank Adoption Center of North Carolina and there at the bottom of the list of bo...

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Funding & Affording Your Adoption

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Korea South, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, USA, Lithuania, Panama, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Japan, Kenya, Armenia, Peru, Poland, Hungary, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Rwanda, Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Jamaica, Madagascar, Costa Rica, Latvia, Uganda, Congo, Burundi, Morocco   Adoption Process

Everyone who has or will adopt internationally understands that it is an expensive process. Families must budget, save, and creatively find ways to fu...

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Adoption Life Books: Digital or Traditional?

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Korea South, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, USA, Lithuania, Panama, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Japan, Kenya, Armenia, Peru, Poland, Hungary, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Rwanda, Dominican Republic   Birth Families, Adoptee Articles, Bonding & Attachment, Adoption Process

In last month's article we began our journey of lifebook construction with the following goal: Build your child's lifebook by December 2008. This mo...

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Adoption LifeBooks: Getting Past the Initial Fears

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Korea South, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, USA, Lithuania, Panama, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Japan, Kenya, Armenia, Peru, Poland, Hungary, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Rwanda, Dominican Republic   Birth Families, Adoptee Articles, Bonding & Attachment, Adoption Process

Creating a lifebook may seem like a daunting task, especially when there is not an abundance of information about your child's life before becoming a ...

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Not Alone Anymore

Nepal   Family Adoption Stories

In November 1999, at 49 years old, I divorced my husband and re-joined the work force. Because our marriage had been so shaky, we had never brought ch...

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Our Adoption from Nepal

Nepal   Family Adoption Stories

Our story of how we came to bring Claire home is not like a lot of the adoption stories I read when I started my research. Let me start by saying righ...

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