I've blogged here before about American Express' Members Project, but now I want to share with you my favorite project on their list of nominations. It's called Reece's Rainbow (on the American Express site it's referred to as "Save an orphan with Down Syndrome").
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The primary goals of Reece's Rainbow are:
- To raise awareness regarding the plight of children with Down syndrome in foreign orphanages and their availability to be adopted
- To raise adoption grant donations for each of our waiting children
- To seek new adoptive families for orphans with Down syndrome internationally
- To provide adoptive families with additional fundraising opportunities.
- To fund humanitarian aid opportunities and improve the quality of life of our children waiting to be adopted
- To fund educational and therapeutic opportunities for orphaned children with Down syndrome living in foreign orphanages
- To fund and facilitate the development of new Down syndrome birth parent support groups in foreign countries, thereby decreasing the number of children placed in orphanages
- To enact social change abroad about children with Down syndrome and other special needs through the testimony of adoption
Take a few minutes to go over to the American Express Member's Project Website (click on the button above, or go here and search for "Reece"). You don't have to have an American Express card to vote, and these few clicks and two minutes of your time could save the lives of children with special needs who are waiting to be adopted. I voted, I hope you will, too. Hurry, voting ends on September 1st!
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~*~*~ May you always remember to dance in the rain, and may you have plenty of ladybugs beside you! ~*~*~
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Blessings,
Kat
