Orphanage in Haiti

foxnews.com ^ | 1/17/2010 | Joe

[teenyelliott]

Our orphanage (a large one) in Haiti is in dire conditions right now -- children are out of water, looters are striking. These children cannot go to drop points for food and water. Many of these children were on schedule to be adopted by American families. The orphanage is Maison des Enfants de Dieu, Delmas 31, #32; coordinates 72 deg 33’29.5”N 72 deg 18’08.76” W, near the mayor's office. If you have any contacts that can help us, please, PLEASE make their need and location known to the military for protection and provision. The situation of these little ones, especially the babies, is URGENT.

January 17, 2010 at 7:18 AM

[teenyelliott]

Well I don't know, perhaps he made a mistake, someone wrote it wrong, typo, I don't know, but the place is in Haiti, and those kids need help.

I don't know how to figure out the correct numbers for the place or I would post them.

[Repeal The 17th]

Those coordinates are for Baffin Bay,
between Greenland and Canada.

[ASOC]

Thanks, thought a lot of them were orphans, as are the ones overseas. I appreciate the reply.

[mvpel]

WHy would you (as a group) want to adopt kids from Haiti (or China or Romainia or etc, etc) when there are thousands and thousands of American children in desperate need of Foster care and homes?

If you do manage to find a pregnant teenager with a healthy baby who hasn't already killed her unborn child without parental notification at Planned Parenthood, and who hasn't been persuaded away from putting her baby up for adoption because of the availability of a web of comprehensive social services such as day care at her high school, you typically wind up having to come up with a pitch to sell yourself to said birth mother, who will choose among an average of four and sometimes as many as a dozen prospective adoptive parents.

When my wife and I adopted our son from Russia, on the other hand, there were something like 40,000 children waiting for families.

[ASOC]

I guess I would worry about the child raised in a State orphanirum. We had a lady we know here in town who took in a Romanian child, raised at a State facility - never held as a baby, no human context in his life. He turned out to be a violent monster, she had to have the State of Alaska take him in the end, she feared for her life, and this at age 10. He is still locked up as far as we know. I guess you pay your nickel and take your chances.... Thanks for the reply.

[keepitreal]

I am the mother of 3 girls internationally adopted. They had no hope for an education, decent health care, or even a foster family. And, the prospect for them as adults was less than savory. At the very least they were relegated to lives of poverty with no hope for the future. God led us to adopt these lovely girls, and we are glad to have had the opportunity.

[kalee]

That happened to us and the poor baby was only 1/2 black. Actually his father was from Nicaragua and was black, his mother was from PA and was blond haired blue eyed American.
We were told that some organization of black and Hispanic social workers would oppose us at every step, because of cultural concerns. They believed the baby belonged in a home with Spanish culture. Never mind that he had lived in our home for 2 years, we loved him and he us. In the end all moot, the moron judge gave him back to his crack using, crack dealing stripper mother. sigh He has been dumped and retrieved frequently over the years.
He is now 16 and is in trouble socially, educationally and emotionally. (We have occasional contact with his grandmother) How different might it have been if he had been left with us!
I pray for him daily. It’s all I can do, he remains my child in my heart.

[mvpel]

Romania had a uniquely bad situation - women’s wombs in that nation were effectively enslaved to the service of megalomaniac Ceaucescu’s vision of a Greater Romania. In Russia, on the other hand, abortions outnumber live births. Russian orphanages tend to be poor, and shopworn, but absolutely nothing like the pit of neglect that was seen in Romania even in the worst of them.

[ASOC]

I worked in Russia (OK, Komi CIS) but did not get into town much, we were at the end fo the rail line in Usinsk, they barely had a hospital, if you could call it that.

So, never had a chance to visit.

DId get to see a few in Korea while there - nice and clean - like a well run business, which most were.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

[ASOC]

I hope they do you proud.

Thanks for the feedback.

[cornfedcowboy]

Pretty tough to pack up the kids by a camera crew. The kids are probably better off by getting a report on the airwaves about their condition. At least that could help speed some help to them.
Now that I think about it, where would they take them? From what I have seen there is basically no where to go.

[MarMema]

I have a son adopted from the Republic of Georgia. He was being kept alive by the older kids in a terrible state institution in Kaspi, during the civil war in Georgia.

He is now in high school, on the honor roll, and just recently made Eagle Scout.

[ASOC]

THank you for sharing.