Over the past couple of days I have received this email from a few different people. Because Braydon and I both work full time, we can't host a child right now. If you can think of anyone who might be able to do this, please pass this along.
Dear Friends,
We have just been given the best Christmas present ever. We have been granted free surgeries for Hydrocephalic children. This is a child who need brain surgery. I need to line up around 24 host families in the Philadelphia or Willimington Area. Host parents are families and/or churches who donate there time and love for a child who is coming to the US for life saving surgery. The child is a minor and can not be accompanied by a parent (according to our US laws).
Children will be in the US for 2 to 4 months. Host parents take them to all doctors visits, hospital stays, and care for them as if they were their own child. There are a thousand different questions I will try to go over some of them. Please feel free to contact me with any others I have not covered.
Does the child need their own bedroom? No a child can share a bedroom with other children. Do we have to be licensed? No but host parents fill out an application form and agree to a finger print, background check. What is the cost to us? We charge nothing but ask for day to day needs be met by the host family. (Clothing, food etc.) Plane tickets - We fund raise for each child needing a plane ticket. It cost between $2,000 to $6,000 per child depending on where in the US we need to fly the children. This covers the Medical Visa Cost in Haiti, plane tickets for the child and escort who will be bringing them to the US.
We love it when a church gets involved with just one child. The whole community gets together for a child. It is an awesome feeling to help a child who will for sure die without our help. Knowing you helped save a life. All of these children have loving parents in Haiti to return to. Imagine if you may being a parent and knowing you can not get the care for your baby. Your baby will die without surgery. Imagine how helpless of a feeling this is. The parents love their children so much that they bring them to us begging for help. They hand them over to us (and I cry sometimes more than they do) they cheer me up by saying "No cry God send you it will all be ok". Taking the child back to that family whole and able to live life is the most amazing thing. We are blessed that God has chosen us to help these precious Haitian Children.
Please pass this email on to any church group, friend or family member who lives in this area. We need to line up homes ASAP as we just received the ok from the Hospital and Doctors involved. My contact information is below. May your Christmas be as blessed as ours.
In Christ Love and service, Vanessa
http://angelmission shaiti.blogspot. com www.AngelMissionsHaiti.org
Vanessa A. Carpenter 4071 Barley Drive Salem, VA 24153
1-800-409-7948 answering service / 540-380-4588 home / 540-580-9721 cell
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