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ADOPT

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There are so many reasons to adopt.  In fact there are approximately 147,000,000 to 210,000,000 reasons to adopt.  However, here are just a few statistics (keep in mind that this is an incomplete list and only barely begins to touch the depths of this issue) …

o       There are an estimated 600,000,000 children live in absolute poverty.

o       Every year more than 10,000,000 children die of hunger and preventable diseases – that’s over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds.

o       Every year nearly 11,000,000 children die before their fifth birthday.

o       It is estimated there are between 143,000,000 and 210,000,000 orphans worldwide.  The current population of the United States is just a little over 300,000,000… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers… (The current population of Russia is 141 million)

o       Of the 993 million children in Asia, approximately 65 million are orphans.

o       Of the 288 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 34 million are orphans
Of the 162 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean, approximately 8 million are orphans

o       In CHINA there are more than 40,000 orphanages with an estimated 3 million orphans. Two in five babies entering the system die.

o       INDIA has more than 18 million children living on the streets. Orphanages are filled with the abandoned.

o       In AFRICA, every 15 seconds, another child becomes an AID’s orphan.

o       In the UNITED STATES there are approximately 500,000 children in the foster care system. Of those, 118,000 are currently available for adoption.

o       Every day 5,760 more children become orphans.

o       143,000,000 Orphans in the world today spend an average of 10 years in an orphanage or foster home.

o       Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…

o       At age 16 orphans age out of the system.  That means every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home.  That is 38,493 every day or 14, 505, 000 children per year.

o       In Russia and the Ukraine alone, studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit sucide before they reach age eighteen.

o       These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70% of the boys become hardened criminals.

  

 

May our hearts grow softer and our voices rise louder…

“Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless;
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Deliver the weak and the needy from the hand of the wicked.”