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You Need to Know…

… if you have been around me for some time or if i think i would be in constant contact with you on a regular basis, i would eventually tell you something about me by starting with, “You need to know something about me… i have a hole-in-my-heart, a leaky heart. You need to know in case i get into an accident and you are with me, you need to tell the medical people about this if i can’t. It is called a VSD.”

A VSD is a Ventricular Septal Defect, which in layman terms means i have a hole in the wall of my heart between the two ventricular chambers. How does this affect me? Practically, it doesn’t affect my day-to-day life but it does mean that my heart does have to do more work as my blood is never fully oxygenated as the de-oxygenated blood and oxygenated blood mixes with each pump of the heart muscles.

But i am fortunate – my hole is considered medium-sized but with a flap of flesh covering it, it does not need to be operated on. i am also blessed to have parents who care so wonderfully for me; taking me to the specialist every year, to doctors who treat me and measure my heart’s performance to make sure all is well, even though it costs extra and they did not earn much.

Sweet Lilly awaits a family to help her through life.

Little Lilly is not so fortunate. She is an orphan; given up for reasons we can not be sure of. But i suspect that one of the reasons would be her need for medical care and the family’s inability to provide that care; she has Down Syndrome. And like many children with Down Syndrome, she has a heart defect (we are not told what exactly is the defect). And it seems that it is serious enough to need medical attention but she is not getting it where she is now.

Lilly needs a family who would love her, just as she is; not mobile, not speaking BUT with a precious smile. She needs a family who would make sure she gets the medical care that she needs so that she can live life to the fullest. Click on her name or picture for more details.

Are you her family? If you believe you are, do contact Reece’s Rainbow for details. Right now, Reece’s Rainbow can only help Canadians with agencies working in this child’s region at this time.

You may not be her forever family but you can still help.

You can share her story so that her adoptive family might find her.

You can pray for her. Pray for her daily needs to be met; pray for her forever family to come and bring her home.

You can also contribute to her adoption grant at Reece’s Rainbow so that her forever family’s journey to her would be easier (International Adoptions are just so very expensive). Click on her name or picture to donate.

Thank you.

syc

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The FUNd Bowl… Take Part!

Here’s another opportunity to help families adopting from Asia. Jack and his family are featured again here. The other family featured are the Andersons. There are great prizes and it is all tied to the Super Bowl in a FUNd way ;). Please read on for details…

fortytoforever's avatarForty Days to Forever

Welcome to our Fund Bowl!  The fundraiser in which we help out two families who desperately need funds for their adoptions!  Let’s just say we are having a pre-game event to gear up for Forty to Forever’s 2013 Campaign!  We have spent a lot of time thinking about how to really make this a FUNd Raiser, so we hope you enjoy it!  Read below to learn who our benefiting families are, the great prizes we’re giving away and how to win!  Are you ready for some Fund Ball?!

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The Players 

JackJack for Jon and Angela… $161.26 Raised!

Jack’s family writes…

“Jack was born with an incredibly rare genetic condition called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (otherwise known as XP). People with XP have an error in their DNA that causes an inability of their bodies (particularly the skin) to repair damage caused by UV rays.

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Precious 3 Auction…

i have set up a Facebook page with an auction to help raise funds for 2 families who are adopting special needs children from Asia.

Please visit https://www.facebook.com/Precious3Auction for details on the auction. It will run from 1st Feb 2013 till 21st Feb 2013.

Here are the children and families we are helping:

JACK who is being adopted by JON and ANGELA.

Jon and Angela are working hard to bring Jack home for the medical care he needs.
Jon and Angela are working hard to bring Jack home for the medical care he needs.

i have featured Jack before. Read about the interview with Angela here.

Jack desperately needs medical care which he is not getting where he is at the moment. He has Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), which is an extremely rare skin condition; his skin can not handle exposure to UV rays and this will lead to him develop skin problems and could lead to cancer. Jon and Angela have the means to care for Jack and they want to. However, in the last month, their home has been flooded 3 times! It is no fault of theirs. The floodings are due to the poor grading of the street outside their house which is the city’s responsibility. But the city is not helping them at all and their insurance is saying the city should cover the damages, not their insurance. This latest flooding is likely to cost them US$15,000 which is an amount they don’t have lying around. All these additional and unexpected costs are eating away at their adoption funds.
They are on expedited paperwork to bring Jack home because of his urgent need for medical care. But the adoption could stall if the upcoming agency fees are not paid ASAP! Jack would be losing life-saving time if the process stalls.
Please help them by making bids on the items in the Precious 3 Auction.

ROWYN and ZEKIEL are being adopted by the SHARP family.

Rowyn awaits the Sharp family to give her a loving home.
Rowyn awaits the Sharp family to give her a loving home.
The Sharp family are anxious to make Zekiel a part of their family.
The Sharp family are anxious to make Zekiel a part of their family.

They have been featured in my Adopting Asia posts. See here for the latest update of that post.

They have all the approvals already and should be travelling to bring Rowyn and Zekiel home in less than 2 months. But they are still short about US$20,000 for flights, in-country expenses and final adoption paperwork. They have had a rather scary incident happen in their family home and they have had to go offline for a while. During this time, they could not fundraise. And now with less than 8 weeks to go, they need our help. You can read their story here.
Please help them by making bids on the items in the Precious 3 Auction.

Please also share this auction with all of your friends. The more people who take part, the more we would be able to help them.

Please do also pray that this auction will be of great help to these families and children.

Thank you very much.

syc

PS: if you do not have a Facebook account and would still like to take part in the auction, please let me know by leaving a comment below (with your email address) and i will send you a PDF document from which you can see all the items and make a bid via email.