Update on Liliana!

UPDATE: After a sleepless night watching my gorgeous, fat, healthy baby sleep in my arms and thinking about Liliana and so many others suffering in their cribs, I thought that I also want to point out what a big difference small people can make. For example, the founder of Reece's Rainbow, Andrea, is simply the mother of a child born with Down Syndrome. And she got the idea that maybe she could build a simple website to show pictures of children with DS in international orphanages so that they'd be more likely to be adopted. Hers is not an adoption agency; she is simply a woman who organizes information and helps raise grant money for adoptions. In her first year, she helped bring two children home. Four short years later, she helped bring 153 children into forever homes! She is just a mama with no special training, but a calling from God and a willingness to say 'yes'.

Home in 2010 (153)

Home in 2009 (76)

Home in 2008 (36)

Home in 2007 (16)

Home in 2006 (2)

And Adeye is simply a mother who now helps personally raise money to bring children home. She has done these fundraisers before. And guess what? In one single day, she raised the full cost to bring Liliana home to America! At my last check, only 425 contributors raised more than the $22,000.

That's 425 people. We have more than 300 million citizens in this country.

How many orphans could we bring home through donations to those families equipped to adopt?

Liliana has her money (and, I think, her committed, paper-ready family too). If you'd like to help many others like her, please go to Reece's Rainbow.