Today is World Adoption Day and you don't need to be adopted or be a parent of an adopted child to celebrate! We can all celebrate this amazing cause because we can all take part in this cause, even if it is just by raising awareness or giving financial help to organizations that support this cause! Afterall, adoption is making the world a better place!
Here are a few ideas to assist the adoption cause:
1. Become a kangaroo parent and take care of a baby for 3-6 months while the process of and paperwork of permanent foster care or adoption is taking place.
2. Become a place of safety by having a child in your care for anywhere between one day and six months.
3. Become a permanent foster care parent and have a child in your care for up to 2 years.
4. Have a baby drop installed at your home or Church to prevent baby abandonment.
5. Give financial donations to organizations assisting the cause.
6. Sponsor a child who is in foster care at foster home.
7. Raise awareness for the cause by blogging, doing talks at schools and Churches.
8. Use whatever skills God has given you to assist! If you are a graphic designer and web developer then contact an organization and offer to do website for them, if you are an accountant then offer to do the organizations books for them, if you can bake then raise funds for the organization of your choice! Use whatever God has placed on your hand.
A friend of mine, who I am so honored to know and so proud of, Louise Coetzee, has done just that; she used what is in her hands by writting a beautiful and inspiring book called The Story Of Princess Zizi, inspired by the journey that her family has been on when adopting their beautiful daughter. What makes this book so special is that so many can relate to it; parents who have adopted, and those who have been adopted. The pages are high quality and although the background is ''colored in," the characters in the book are not, meaning that multiracial families can color the characters in according to their unique family dynamic. The book is available in both English and Afrikaans and costs just R100.00.
Contact Louise Coetzee on 0788124301 or email her on louise.coetzee252@gmail.com.
