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Showing posts with label haitian restavek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haitian restavek. Show all posts

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Your Unique Opportunity to Sponsor and Lift up a Needy Child

Updates on Jan. 12/2010: Haiti is the land of unlimited opportunities -i.e.- opportunities to reach out to needy Haitian children made orphans and shelterless by the earthquake's devastation

Updates on 2-2-10: To Sponsor a child in Haiti is to send money to the child so he/she can be fed, go to school and receive some basic care.
The amount you want to send may vary between $30 to $60 per month.

Keep in mind that the child will continue to live in Haiti. You are not going to sponsor him/her to come to the United States or other countries.


Read on......

How many needy Haitian children can you sponsor? Just start with one!
Sponsorandfeedachild Program
(http://sponsorandfeedachild.blogspot.com) has a list of needy
children who are waiting for somebody to give them a helping hand.
Maybe all you can afford to sponsor is one child. That is what
Sponsorandfeedachild is all about. It is a tangible way for us,
concerned parents, to reach out and show our own children how we can
help someone else in the world.

The harsh economic and political situation that Haiti has been going
through for the past decades has undoubtedly prevented many parents
from feeding and sending their children to school. I was in Haiti a
few months ago and witnessed the deplorable human conditions! Some of
the parents may resort to placing their kids with more well-off family
members or friends who may be able to raise them. Others who are in
more desperate situations may end up unknowingly giving up their kids
to "child slavery" where abuse and an uncertain future await them.

As recently reported by ABC News, Child Slavery flourishes where high
illiteracy rates, lack of education and social services exist. As a
poor country, Haiti meets all the conditions for this type of
exploitation. Where else have you heard about parents feeding "mud
cakes or mud cookies" to their hungry children?

Through SponsorandFeedachild Fund, you can make the difference in a
child's life. You can prevent one child from knowing this type of
depravity and misery. Educating and/or feeding a Haitian child will
be greatly appreciated.

We accept your free email questions

If you want to sponsor a child, visit
http://sponsorandfeedachild.blogspot.com or write to us at
sponsorachildemail@gmail.com



Servant Leader
sponsorachildemail@gmail.com

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Haitian Orphans and Restavek May Be Adopted by Foreign Families After Quake If Haitian Judges Sign Paperwork

After Tuesday's quake, I continue to be haunted by the pictures of children who witnessed their parents' crushing death. A young boy was finally rescued from the arms of his dead father. Even when the rescuer reached him, he refused to let go of his dead father. He wanted to stay with his dead father. Tears ran down my cheeks. I also heard horrible stories about fathers singing their daughters to bed. This story was reported by a young woman who was finally rescued. She said that some of her family members died on her knees in the rublbles.

The pictures that stay with me up to now are those of two kids (a boy and a girl) covered with dust, barefooted and crying over the loss of their family. They were alone among the piles of debris. They had nobody to hug them. They were alone and lonely. They had no family member to shield them from the cruel deaths that cheated them. I wanted to reach out and feed them. I wanted to comfort them and tell them that the following nights will be better.

In good times, Haiti had a lot of orphans. Most Haitians had some restavek who may now have to fend for themselves when they were never taught how to live freely. These are some of the Haitian kids who need to be rescued from the streets. Haitian Street Kids are also a problem.

Why would Haitian judges take so long to approve some adoptions?
Haitian adoptions used to take a long time.

After CNN's Anderson Cooper broadcast the plight of Haitian children waiting for their papers to be approved, we saw what happened to their cases. Many of these kids are now living with their American parents in the US. We also saw a senator piloting his plane to pick up or rescue some Haitian children and their American caretakers.


The Netherlands sent a plane to pick Haitian kids who were being adopted by Dutch families.

"The 109 children include nine who were in the process of being adopted but have not yet been assigned Dutch parents, Mikkelsen said. Those nine will be placed in foster families until permanent parents can be found.

Fifty-six children were awaiting travel documents when the quake hit. The remaining 44 already had been matched to parents but were still waiting for a Haitian judge to approve their adoptions..."