Kidsave – 2012 Weekend Miracles Orientation

Weekend Miracles Advocacy Event: Fall Festival

Come learn about Kidsave’s Weekend Miracles program! Come have fun with older foster youth, ages 9-17, in need of hosts and/or adoptive families. There will be pumpkin carving, a photo booth, and much more! Kidsave’s Mission is to create change so forgotten orphanage and foster kids grow up in families and connected to caring adults.

With family support, most of these children can function successfully. Many will have some lasting damage — learning challenges, emotional problems — but with the help of patient, compassionate parents they can learn and succeed. They have tremendous ability to be contributing members of society. This is the work of Kidsave — to create change so forgotten orphanage and foster kids are found — and connected to families and caring adults.

Children in orphanages and foster care are overlooked and forgotten. While some governments, like the US, “keep track of their own, no international government agency globally monitors children living in orphanages or foster care.” And no organization holds governments accountable for moving children out of orphanages and into permanent family care.

In situations where children are adopted — either internationally or domestically — the older kids are frequently not considered. “Many of these children are overlooked for adoption because they are not babies or toddlers.” ”Older kids have a lot of value and can add much joy to a family.” Children age 11 and older in the foster care system are more likely to grow up in the system than be adopted. “And that’s not okay.”