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TOF Recommended Books on AdoptionThe Orphan Crisis - FactsGreat Adoption StoriesMeet the Cancilla FamilyMeet the Rennemo FamilyThe Children's Wall of TearsOrphanages - Video ToursThe Orphan Foundation Recommendeded Books
Here is a great selection of books on adoption, family, values, and adjusting to the newly adopted child. If you place your cursor on top of any of the books, you'll see the ratings that readers have given. If you then click on that book, you'll be taken to Amazon, where you'll find many pricing options - including used books. Read the comments that the readers made before you make a purchase. They're very helpful. And don't forget to download our "Simple Guide to Adoption" on our Adoption webpage.
The Orphan Crisis - Facts
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What starts as a gesture of love soon becomes an onslaught of paperwork. The forms, the home study, the waiting, and certainly the financial hurdles can be discouraging to a loving family wanting to open their arms to an orphaned child. The Orphan Foundation hopes to help you overcome some of those barriers by providing financial assistance and information for adopting families. Please browse the materials we’ve compiled to support you in your adoption journey.
Be sure to tell your friends about The Orphan Foundation, these resources, and our vision of finding permanent families and homes for all of the world’s 143 million orphans and the 20 million "displaced children."
Great Adoption StoriesDownload
Families of all kinds are offering hope and a new life to these fragile children, helping to eliminate the orphan crisis one child at a time. The stories of The Orphan Foundation’s first three grant recipients are truly inspirational. A single mother struggling to start up a new business adopts a hard-to-place, “special needs” child from another country. A happy, healthy, and content family embraces a child with Down Syndrome, after his birth mother chose to give him up at 6 weeks of age. A New York family rescues three traumatized orphans from the ravages of Liberia’s second civil war.
Two of these stories were also highlighted on CNN Headline News – Local Edition aired in the Los Angeles area the week of 8/27/2007. The unedited version of this powerful taping is included below (captions added by The Orphan Foundation).
"The Children's Wall of Tears" - Leo and Jane Lemond-Alvarez: Foster Parents, Authors, and Child Advocates
Meet Leo and Jane Lemond-Alvarez - Foster Parents, Authors, and Child Advocates! Jane LeMond-Alvarez is a child abuse expert and former crime analyst from the Oxnard, California Police Department. She is a published author of the true stories: Blinders and Where’s Mario, a public speaker, as well as a wife, mother and grandmother. Jane has dedicated her life to stopping child abuse. Jane and her husband Leo work as activists to be a part of the solution. They write and speak about child abuse custody issues. They are part of an on-going national campaign to make legislative changes that would end the return of abused children to their abusers. Abused children nationwide are being returned to their abusive parents on an epidemic level. You can find out more about "The Children's Wall of Tears," visit www.TheChildrensWallofTears.org.
Some of this footage of orphanages around the world will make you cry. Some of the children will make you laugh. All of these videos will show you the resilience of children and the importance of resolving the orphan crisis – whatever it takes.
Orphans from around the world |
| Teenagers Visit a Russian Orphanage |
| Vinh Son Orphanage - Kontum Vietnam |
| Chengdu CWI |
| Olivia Orphanage |
| RAWA Orphanage Nouroz |
| An Orphanage in Ensenada |
| Kabul Orphanage |
| China and its Orphanages |
| Orphanages in Mexico |
| Ethiopian Orphans |
| Shepherds Orphanage Nairobi |
| Buyamba Uganda |
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God Cares School from Tyler Rumph on Vimeo. |
| Welcome Home Africa Orphanage |
