As mentioned on our Home page, we were fortunate to have adopted our two wonderful children, Jules and Jessie, from Cambodia (in 1998 and 2001).
Our daughter Jessie, now 10, was in the last group of children adopted by American families, after a long, painful struggle with the INS (US immigration).
Since Dec. 2001, adoptions of Cambodian children by US families, as well as many other countries, have been suspended, with no end in sight. Many children are growing up in over-crowded orphanages, losing their chance at finding a loving adoptive family.
Below are some links to a few wonderful non-profit organizatons who are helping them help themselves...
www.sustainableschoolsinternational.org/ 25% of the proceeds from the wonderful book 'Bones that Float', by Kari Grossman, go to the Grady Grossman School in rural Cambodia..... Bones that Float is a Cambodian phrase for the sacred that rises above the suffering...
www.cambodiatomorrow.org
www.nclo.org No Child Left Out...
www.sharingfoundation.org
www.tabithausa.org/ Great gifts ideas!
Thank you for your time and caring,
Bernard & Mary Collin
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