Thank you for your interest in Waiting Children.

Thank you for your interest in Waiting Children.

Please send me your mailing address, so I can send you the password

to our website to view photos of Waiting Children. This is due to

confidentiality rules set by the countries we work with.

Not all countries allow us to feature children on our website

listing, so to see even more children who need families, you can

request a Family Finders Photo Album. The album gives photos and

brief introductions to more children that we are currently advocating

for, including our Promise Children. If you see children that you

think might be a good match for your family, I can send copies of

their profiles, with any photos, history, and medical information we

have.

The Family Finders Waiting Child program currently has more than 200

children from seven countries (the USA, China, Ethiopia, India,

Kazakhstan, Korea, Thailand, Russia and Vietnam) waiting for

families.

Family Finders places "waiting children" who are school-aged kids and

babies with some degree of "special need." It could be something

minor that works itself out with time or surgery, or that they are

part of a sibling group, have developmental delays, have a cleft lip

or palate, or something more significant like a heart condition or

genetic disease. There are some really great kids waiting for

families. Adopting a Waiting Child may be a faster way to adopt, and

often there is financial assistance available.

Some Waiting Children who are not Promise Children are eligible for

our adoption subsidy. This reduces the normal international program

and donation fees to a flat rate of $5000. The amount of savings

this represents to the family depends on which country the child is

from. For example, for the China program, it reduces the fee of

$9,950 to $5000 and for the Russia program; it reduces the fee of

$19,000 to $5000. The no-interest loan is also available along with

the subsidy.

There are children in our Waiting Child program who do not have

specific financial assistance assigned to their adoptions. Families

adopting these children can still take advantage of the WACAP no-

interest revolving loan, payable over 3 years.

You may also know that the federal government has a more than $10,000

tax credit available after the adoption is complete. This does not

help with up-front costs, but can be used to pay back loans taken out

for an adoption.

I look forward to hearing from you; please give me a call or email me

with any questions you may have, or to request more information on

any of the children. I wish you the best of luck with your adoption

plans.