Treasured Pearls: CCAI Waiting Kids

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

CCAI Waiting Kids

CCAI has a new waiting child list. There are a couple of older boys on the list who have captured my heart. The first one is the boy from Fuzhou (HJ's SWI). He is deaf, knows sign language and is described as "very nice, very helpful, and likes to eat chicken" by one of the girls from the orphanage who now live in TX.

Another boy on the list is from Urumqi (think Siberia!!!) He has Hep B,repaired bilateral club feet and an AWESOME smile!!!

Another Urumqi boy also has Hep B, a repaired hernia, and cataracts. He, too has a great smile!

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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/