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From: Ron.Rothenberg@f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Ron Rothenberg)
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Subject: Adopting Children
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Date: 12 Jan 90 02:17:27 GMT
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>From the ODS (Open Door Society of Mass.) News - December 1989:

Infants & Children with Physical Handicaps are available from Vietnam Through
International Mission of Hope

  At long last Vietnam is opening a small adoption program to find homes in
the U.S. for infants and children who have physical handicaps, some of which
are correctable in this country. Organized under the international Mission of
Hope, there are infants with moderate to major medical problems, such as cleft
lip and/or palate, heart problems requiring surgery, partial to full blindness
due to Vitamin A deficiency, congenital abnormalities such as missing arms,
hands, legs, or feet, severe malnutrition, and those with colostomies.
  School age children from age 7 and older are available singly or in sibling
groups.  These youngsters are basically healthy, but are undernourished. There
are school-age children who have post-polio damage in lower or upper limb.  A
few healthy pre-school boys are available.  In general, there are more boys
then girls available.
  A group of licensed agencies will be working with IMH through the FCVN
(Friends of Children of Various Nations) office in Denver, CO.  Call the Mass.
agencies for information:
   Love the Children (Cambridge) 617/576-2115

... There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn - A. Camus 

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