Kidsave Fellow Talitha James testified today before the House Ways and Means Committee on the challenges foster youth have leading normal lives. Talitha came to Kidsave after serving as an intern for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) ON THE U.S Senate Committee on Finance. We are so proud of her efforts to speak [...]
CONTINUE READING →By Roberto Rodriguez A friend of mine recently invited me to a weekend event for an organization called Kidsave. She described it as a very special event where they bring adults to spend a little time with children, who essentially have no family or stability in their lives. The basic idea is to find [...]
CONTINUE READING →Oak Hill | Hendon Connection Arlington residents Gerald and Mary Hubbard, who are adopting their daughter Dayana from Colombia this spring, organized a Kidsave wine-tasting fundraiser on April 7. The Kidsave program helps give older, overlooked foster youth and foreign orphans short-term visits with families for the summer or weekend. See www.kidsave.org. http://www.herndonconnection.com/photos/2013/apr/07/33223/
CONTINUE READING →San Clemente’s Mark and Debbie Perez and their children have helped provide Hurricane Katrina victims with six new school playgrounds in 3½ years. The Perezes now have five children after their recent adoption of a 12-year-old boy from Colombia. By FRED SWEGLES / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Six playgrounds later, San Clemente’s Perez family isn’t quite [...]
CONTINUE READING →After some disappointments during trips sponsored by Kidsave to facilitate adoptions, Natalia met the Howells. They had a feeling she should be part of their family in Orange County. July 28, 2012|Sandy Banks Los Angeles Times Natalia has found a family — a mother, father and little brother. She’ll leave a life of foster care [...]
CONTINUE READING →International adoption is goal of visit By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun 4:14 p.m. EDT, July 29, 2012 Gustavo, a 12-year-old orphan from Colombia, has spent a week at camp, attended the Catonsville July 4th parade and watched an IronBirds baseball game at Ripken Stadium during what he has been told is a vacation [...]
CONTINUE READING →Santiago Brown calls himself a “cashew.” It’s his way of combining the words “Catholic” and “Jew,” to refer to his unusual religious background. He lived in Colombia in a Catholic orphanage until being adopted into a Jewish family a year ago, at the age of 12. BY REBEKAH BLUME – Jewish Journal.com His mother, Lori [...]
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