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[quote=SofiasMom]I wish that CCAA or some of the bigger adoption agencies would do outreach programs to those orphanages not participating in foreign adoptions. Why aren't they participating?

We adopted our youngest in July of this year and we were the first international family to adopt from his orphanage. Why? because all of the healthy children were adopted domestically within 1-2 months of being brought to the orphanage. There were 5 children left in his orphanage - 1 infant had leukemia, and the remaining 4 were older boys(aged 4-8?) who were described as mentally disabled, though one may have only had CP (he was in a walker).

We are so grateful that his orphanage somehow found the money to get our son paper ready to be adopted internationally. They were a very poor orphanage with barely enough money to buy food for the kids, and yet the orphanage director managed to figure out all the necessary paperwork required by the CCAA and then get the money to get it done.