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The Orphan Foundation Recommends Slumdog Millionaire - Rated R

This is the ultimate feel-good orphan movie of the decade! This wonderful action-packed story will introduce you to the lives of three orphans as they struggle to survive. You will witness first-hand the statistics we talk about in our Orphan Crisis document, but in a very uplifting way. You will find yourself moved to tears, laughing, and shouting with joy. Preview the movie below, and take note that the movie has an R rating.

 

 

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The Orphan Crisis - FactsDownload

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."

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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). 

 

 

Meet The Cancilla Family

Meet the Cancilla Family! This interview took place on the second TV show we aired. The Cancilla's are one of the new breed of adopting families that have taken on the responsibility of loving and caring for a "special needs" child. Listen to their story and learn about adopting and caring for a child with "special needs." And most importantly, meet Harrison.

 

 

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Meet The Rennemo Family

Meet the Rennemo Family! This interview took place on the third TV show we aired. The Rennemo's are one of the new breed of adopting families that are truly international. Donna is Italian and grew up here in the States, married Rolf in Oslo, Norway, and their two gorgeous daughters are from China. Learn the in's and out's of adopting from China by listening to this program.

 

 

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Meet 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. According to the California Youth and Correctional Agency, more than 120,000 California children are reported abused every year. Many of these kids are now in our foster care system, which is what we will be talking more about this evening. You can learn more about the work that Jane and Leo are doing by going to their website at www.TheInjusticeFiles.com.

 

 

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Orphanages - Video Tours

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.

© The Orphan Foundation 2008

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