Posted in Health Issues on Mar 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Some observations that our team made was that both the Ha Tay and Bac Giang centers were involved in international adoption. Ha Tay has had children adopted to Italy, France, and the U.S. Bac Giang children were being adopted to the U.S. (though it wasn’t clarified if children were being placed elsewhere).
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Posted in Health Issues on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Ethica has met our fundraising goal for this initiative and have authorized all of the supplies needed to be bought for the babies and children. Thank you very much for your generosity over the past 3 days! We will have photos and a report on the first deliveries by March 10th posted on our website [...]
Posted in Health Issues on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Update: As of Wednesday afternoon, Ethica has raised $8,192.17 … Almost to their goal - if you haven’t contributed yet, please considering giving now and putting them over the top!
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A quick update to let the community know that we are almost at the halfway mark for our Blankets for Babies Fund. As of [...]
Posted in Health Issues on Mar 3rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Reprinted with permission from Ethica:Ethica, Inc. has received troubling reports of severe, cold weather in northern Vietnam that has taken a toll on orphanages in Hanoi, Bac Giang, Hay Tay, and Bac Ninh provinces. We understand 3 children have died in the past week and 10 more less than a year old have been hospitalized. [...]
Posted in Health Issues, In The News on Feb 22nd, 2008 12 Comments »
In 2002 when we were living in Cambodia with our daughter waiting on the embassy to process her paperwork, I had the occasion to visit another little girl in the hospital. She was just over a year old and had contracted pneumonia in the orphanage. My friend D~, who was waiting with her son, learned [...]
Posted in Experiences, Health Issues on Sep 14th, 2007 11 Comments »
The following is written by Tracy X, an adoptive mom who prefers to remain semi-anonymous:
My child, who was adopted in from an orphanage near Hanoi, Vietnam, tested negative for the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) at 3 months of age when the adoption physical was completed. Less than six months later it was discovered, during routine [...]
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