March 2009 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Rachel
If you don't mind my asking, I am curious about the plans for your orphanage. What age children will you have? Young children or all ages? Will you work toward adoption or is more permament residence?
Re: Rachel
I don't mind at all!
We're planning to start with kids age 5-10, and keep them until they're adults, so eventually it would be age 5 and up. We could end up with some infants, though, as it's not unusual for them to be abandoned outside of orphanages. There's no legal way to give up unwanted babies for adoption in Kenya. I don't think I could pass on to another facility a baby who was left for us to take care of. I had a dream that we personally adopted a baby girl we found on our doorstep. :O
We don't see adoption facilitation as our mission, but if we had people who wanted to adopt one of our kids, we would figure out how to make that happen.
It is so awesome what you are doing! When we were researching adoption, it was so heartbreaking to learn that in many countries children were released from orphanages to the streets when they were 12-13 years old. That is a time when they need to be loved and have positive role models.
We feel the same way about teenagers. How can they learn to be productive adults? Living in the streets, they won't be able to go to high school, let alone college/tech school. They will only be able to learn a trade if they are very lucky to find someone to train them. It's prime time for entering the sex industry, though.
I'm not sure what age kids would be considered homeless adults rather than orphans in Kenya. We don't have a maximum age for our kids, when they would have to move out. Once they finish high school, they will have a choice of learning a trade or going to college. The orphanage will still support them financially through either pursuit. Ideally they would be able to get jobs at the end of apprenticeship or college, but if not, we would still want to support them while they're looking for a job, like a family would.