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Adopting Mary

Adopting a child is a hugely rewarding experience for all involved.

Adoptive mother Amelo shares the story of how baby Mary came to be part of her family.

This is an adoptive parent’s perspective of the adoption process from beginning to end…

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More Exciting Days for Adoptive and Prospective Parents!!

Dear Parents,

Families for Children sends you warm greetings! We kindly want to invite you to the Coffee mornings and Adoptive parents trainings for this year please.

Below are the proposed dates;

Coffee morning dates 24th March 2012, and 8th September 2012.

A contribution of 5,000 shillings on the coffee morning will go towards your break fast that morning,

We look forward to seeing you on 24 March Coffee Morning as Keren Rileyleads us in the interesting and exiting discussions.

Adoptive parents’ trainings dates; 21st April 2012, and 20th October 2012

Topics for the adoptive parents trainings are asbelow,

1. Adoption; A life long process,

2. Bonding and attachment, 3. Loses and gains 4. Special needs have adopted children

A contribution of 20,000 shillings only will go towards your breakfast, Lunch and a certificate on the parents training days.

Please inform other prospective and adoptive parents and fostering parents know about these events or forward these dates to them and encourage them to attend as well.

Thank you very much and hope to see you soon.

For more information: Email Roget Mbazira at [email protected]

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New Vision adoption feature

We are very proud that our adoption campaign has been featured in a 2 page article in the New Vision.

Amazing adoptive parents George and Desire Barugahare talk about their experiences in the hope that their story will encourage more Ugandan parents to come forward.

If you are considering adoption, please email us at [email protected] or call 0719777319.

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Our Adoption Campaign

Child’s i Foundation has had a busy summer, getting the word out about domestic adoption in Uganda and trying to find new adoptive families for children who desperately need them.

Our media campaign launched at the beginning of July, and to learn more about the campaign and the response that we’ve received to it, read this blog by our Project Director Lucy Buck.

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WBS News focus on adoption

We were proud to see one of our adoptive families featured on WBS News’ coverage of World Humanitarian Day recently.

Christina adopted baby Tessa 3 months ago and as you will see in the WBS coverage her little girl has settled well in to her new family!

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What Can Be Done?

There are hundreds of children across Uganda currently living in institutional care. What is best for them and how do we safeguard their futures? Ben Ssebuufu recently visited a number of babies’ homes in Kampala, meeting staff and children in an attempt to understand more about the problem of baby abandonment in Uganda.

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