Aug 26 2008

Digging Around Adoption Funding in Canada

Published by Shane at 7:05 am under Amuse Me, Family

What got me on this subject this morning?  I am trying to remember…

Oh yeah.  I have this Christian news RSS feed, and it came up with a story on the new WOW 2009 CD, in stores October 9.  I was passably curious about what was on it (they are good collections of Christian music if you’ve never been into it before), and I discovered the newest edition is donating a portion of its proceeds to Shaohannah’s Hope, a charity founded by Steven Curtis Chapman, one of the most popular Christian musicians of the past 20 years.  He and his wife adopted I think 3 or 4 kids from overseas, and then set this up to help families pay for international adoptions, as the process can be expensive - into the tens of thousands of dollars when all is said and done.

My mother and father-in-law adopted a whole bunch of kids a few years ago from Russia, and recently their oldest adopted son won national recognition for advocacy for orphans (I hope I am describing that accurately).  My sister-in-law also adopted her son from Russia.  Hence, we have been involved and informed about both the need and the expense of adoption for a long time.

Being remarkably good at producing sons (we have four now) naturally has a downside.  I’ve always wanted a daughter, and it seems I suck at producing the necessary chromosome.  Cheryl and I have talked on and off about adoption, but the latest obstacle is definitely money.

So, I checked out Chapman’s charity.  Wouldn’t you know it, they don’t help Canadians.

After a little more digging, I did find some organizations in Canada though, who do provide grants to families looking to adopt internationally.  I give you Orphan’s Hope and ECHO.  Apparently they can give you up to $10 000 to help with the costs of international adoption.  It looks like it is income-based, but we should qualify.

Something to think about.  It really does break the heart to think about the difficulty faced by orphans in 3rd world countries.  While supporting charities that improve their plight help, if you have room in your life to give a child a family, why wouldn’t you?

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