Vision Holder (aka: Executive Director)
<p>After adopting two older children and then over a five year period ot taking them to visit the friends they had grown up with who were still in the institution, I saw an amazing developmental gap occurring.</p> <p>I had the opportunity to see the difference between adopted children who now had a home and family and their friends who did not. </p> <p>Prior to that, I had never really thought about the difference a parent makes in a child's life. The little things they do together, the guidance, going to the store, helping with the homework, tucking the child in at night - and children in traditional orphanages do not get that.</p> <p>Seeing that development gap and knowing the sad conditions for children in traditional orphanages has led me to a mission of getting more orphans adopted into families.</p>