Hope For Orphans

Last summer I came across an organization called Reece's Rainbow that helps children with disabilities who are living in orphanages in various countries.  The disabled children in those orphanages usually are transferred to mental institutions when they are 4 or 5 years old. I never knew that happened. Yet many children with down syndrome, cerebral palsy, blindness, deformed limbs, deafness, and cranio-facial deformities are sent to mental institutions once they leave the baby homes.  They are left there to stay until they finally expire.  And many of them die within their first year there due to neglect.
It is an atrocity.  I feel that they deserve to be rescued and have loving families. Not everybody can adopt children.  Yet there are things we all can do to help them out.  This charity and some others have grant funds to help families with adoption expenses.  Many would have never been rescued if it wasn't for the grants.  Lives are saved, literally, because they were rescued from the institutions.
Reece's Rainbow is a charity that raises funds for individual children to get adopted. Most of the children are in Eastern Europe, but some come from China, other Asian countries, and Latin America. The younger children (0-5) have individual grants, and the older children (6+) have a collective grant for the next child adopted. 
Here are a few of the children:

This little girls' name is Alisha.  She has Penn-Sjogren Syndrome. Children like her have a lot of potential once they can live with a family.
http://reecesrainbow.org/alisha-1






Lovely Lauren is HIV+.  Obama has allowed U.S. citizens to adopt HIV+ children from other countries now.  She's such a doll.  I hope a family comes for her soon.
http://reecesrainbow.org/lauren-2
Dmitry is blind.  He has only one eye and the other is useless.  He was just transferred out of the baby home.  He reminds me of a blind student I knew at university. He also had blond hair like him and two glass eyes.  He was studying to become a pastor and wrote beautiful religious poetry.  He later got married and graduated.  I can see Dmitry being successful in life. He just needs a family!

http://reecesrainbow.org/dmitriy-4

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