Impressed Upon Our Hearts: Wondering What You Can Do To Help?

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Wondering What You Can Do To Help?

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Joyce said...: Kathy, I don't know if you remember me, but I knew you from First Baptist years ago. I stumbled on to your blog through Feedjit's local blog aggregator. it's fun to know you are out there in the blogosphere as well!
I'm excited to see you are on the path to adoption!; November 17, 2008 2:33 PM

ADOPTION #2 TIMELINE AND COST

I know when we were starting our first adoption I was very interested in knowing how long the process took and how much it cost! So, in light of that, I will try to keep this updated so you can check in and see where we are!

JANUARY 2010 - Apply to America World - $250

Apply to Lifelink - Home study agency - $250

FEBRUARY 1, 2010 - Begin home study - $3500

Return America World Agreement for adoption #2!!! - $1500

FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - Mail I-600 a to USCIS - $830

JULY 15, 2010- Dossier COMPLETE and mailed to AWAA
for review!! - $7500

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 - Received referral for THREE beautiful children!! Siblings - 1 year old boy, 4 year old girl, 5 year old girl!!! $11,000ish

DECEMBER 23 - Court Date in Ethiopia...did not pass. :(
JANUARY 4 - Court Date #2, cancelled b/c judge went on vacation

JANUARY 11 - Passed court in Ethiopia - The kids are officially 'Garrisons'!!!

FEBRUARY 14, 2011- Gotcha Day. The kids are with us forever!

FEBRUARY 19 - HOME.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27

WHY ETHIOPIA?

~ One in ten children die before their first birthday
~ One in six children die before their fifth birthday
~ 44% of the population is under 15 years old
~ 60% of children in Ethiopia are stunted because of
malnutrition
~ The median age in Ethiopia is 17.8 years old
~ 1.5 million people are infected with AIDS (6th highest
in the world)
~ There are roughly 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia
~ Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country
in Africa
~ Half of the children in Ethiopia will never attend
school.
~ 88% will never attend secondary school
~ Coffee prices (Ethiopia's only major export) declined 40-60%
from 1998-2002
~ Ethiopia's doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000
~ Severe drought struck country from 2000-2002
(first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year
no animals)

OUR TIMELINE

2008

APRIL - Decided to adopt thru AWAA and from Ethiopia
MAY - Sent in application to America World and was approved for their program. Began collecting documents and were fingerprinted twice (DCFS and FBI)
JUNE - Four homestudy visits with social worker, physicals, continue collecting paperwork
JUNE 16 - Travel to Indy for USCIS (immigration) fingerprints
JULY - Homestudy written and sent to Illinois DCFS for approval
AUGUST - approval by DCFS and Homestudy sent off to USCIS to obtain approval to adopt internationally (I171-H)
SEPTEMBER 19 - RECEIVED OUR I171-H!!
SEPTEMBER 23 - Sent our dossier to America World!
OCTOBER 3 - Dossier sent to Ethiopia!! We are officially DTE! Now about 9 months of waiting.....
2009
JUNE 4 - Received our "On Deck" email telling us that our referral could come in the next 1-2 months
JUNE 11 - RECEIVED REFERRAL for a beautiful 5 month old baby boy - our Elijah Yegremachew
JULY 7 - first court date, did not pass
JULY 27 - PASSED COURT
AUGUST 13-23 - traveled to Ethiopia
AUGUST 17 - Meetcha Day
AUGUST 18 - GOTCHA DAY - He is ours forever!
AUGUST 23 - HOME

Impressed Upon Our Hearts

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Wondering What You Can Do To Help?

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