Wow!!! I think we are finally moving forward. There is so much that goes in to opening an orphanage and there is never a dull moment. It is hard to micro-manage everything from the USA but we have an incredible person on the ground in Africa who is doing an incredible job!
We have finally picked a Hague accredited agency to handle the adoptions for us. They are not on the first list but they are approved. We will be using Kids to Adopt in Washington state. We are in the finalizing stages of paperwork (the adopting parents and the programs) to get the ball rolling. As Burkina is a Hague country we have to have a Hague agency. They have hired a special person to be the liason to the parents, Sarah! We personally know Sarah and we are thrilled about this. Sarah is a mom to 13 children and is very friendly, saavy and truthful, did I mention is super smart and funny too??!! This is going to be such a win win program.
So, if you want more info on adopting we can answer general questions here. Sarah is on this group. Please remember that Fields of Grace does not have anything to do with the American side of these adoptions. We have worked with K2A for a couple of years and they are very straigt forward and honest. All the families I have sent them, not one has ever complained, all said the process was as smooth as it gets in International adoptions and many have gone back to adopt again thru them. They are highly accessable to their parents too.
We are still looking for supplies for one of our board members to hand carry over in the next 30 days. Please see the post below of check out our website.
As for the orphanage, we are STILL waiting on electric! They had a major outage in the captial and everyone took turns having electric a couple hours each day!! The part that will remedy this should be here next week (in Africa) so be praying, they are saying tomorrow they will come and finish putting in our electric!! We are ready with everything else so once this is done, we should be ready to roll.
Please check back for more updates soon!! I hope in the next week we will have so much to tell I will have to post everday!!
Ann
