Treasured Pearls: Showing Hope

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Showing Hope

Saturday night, AT, SG, HJ and I took a trek over to Lakeland for the Steven Curtis Chapman concert. We were volunteering for Show Hope again. While there, we met some wonderful adoptive families and got to work again with a sweet lady from north of our hometown. (We've volunteered with her 3 times now!) The girls also made friends with some other girls that were there to volunteer also. The funny thing is that all the girls shared names!

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Anonymous said...: So glad your girls got to join you this time! Thanks for being there!; 6:50 PM

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Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/