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Originally Posted by sis2kensia
Many (if not most) people adopt independently from Haiti - which reduces the costs several thousand dollars. Haiti is one of the countries with the lowest fees...country fees between $6,000 and $8,000 (approx.) and with homestudy/dossier/travel it would come out between $10,000 - $12,000.
My husband and I will be getting an adoption loan. I've looked at all the grants but for most you have to use an agency (we're adopting independently) it seems.
Good luck!
S.
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Is it dangerous to do private adoption. I am scared, I do not want to be taken advantage of.
I am not ashamed to say how much my hubby makes, he currently makes $42,000 a year (salaray) and is due for a raise in the Spring.
I know if it is meant to be God will provide a way. I quit my job after our son was born in March 2006 to become a stay at home mom. I was making the same amount as my hubby at that time ($25,000-$27,000 depending on overtime), so when I quit our income was cut in half. But within a month of my quitting my hubby got a promotion and a significant raise and we are now only making about $10,000 less than what we were when I was working. So I know if it is meant to be it will happen.
The country I was interested in when I started lookinh was China, but then I found out they have age requirments. I will not be 30 for 4 more years, my hubby will be 30 in 2 years. We were looking to start the process in 2 years, but maybe this is God's way of telling us to wait 4.
Ethiopia was also a country I am considering, and one of the reasons is because the child can be excorted here. With my hubby's job it will be hard for him to travel, plus we have 1 son already so we would have to pay extra for him to travel both ways as well.
I had not considered Haiti before, but if it is safe to adopt from there that may be a consideration as well.
Thank you to everyone for all of your help.
I have already had a few ideas for fund raising, including collecting recipes from friends and family to make cookbooks, doing car washes in the summer time (my mom has a power washer we can borrow), collecting people's "junk" and having large garages sales, doing Christmas Tree pickups (at $5 a tree) and then using my mom's wood chipper to chip the tree's up and sell the mulch as well.
And I am sure, if we ask, our church would raise some money for us. My hubby works for a small private company but he already said if he asked the owner he is sure the guy would either gift him a few thousand or loan it to him. My hubby is the General Manager of the company, so the only person above him is the owner and the owner just absolutely loves him, because he knows how to make money.
If anyone else has any fund raising ideas not listed above please feel free to share
) I was thinking about making cloth diapers, there seems to be a pretty large market for homemade cloth diapers on the internet.