Adoptive parents visit Guatemala to give back

Posted: Thu 22:49, 22 Aug 2013

Adoptive parents visit Guatemala to give back
The day started off right - great, in fact - as she and 10 or so other volunteers doled out Barbie dolls and Star Wars figures to orphans here in western Guatemala.
The way the children's eyes lighted up as they hugged their new toys was "miraculous," she said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], making the volunteers - most of whom had adopted children from Guatemala - feel as if what they were doing really mattered.
But then that joy came crashing down as the group left the orphanage, only to be confronted by a seemingly endless line of hungry families stretching the entire length of the street.
Grandmothers, mothers, and children were waiting for hours for a food basket and the chance to take home secondhand clothes.
"We felt good at first,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because we felt like we had made a difference,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Ms. Downie, mother to a 2-year-old adopted Guatemalan, Sofia. "But then we get back to all these people who still need help, and you realize that what we're doing just isn't enough,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and can never be enough. She had spent 14 months living in Guatemala waiting to adopt her two children, Sophia Linda and Alexander.
"All of us moms are here for the same reason," said Hryniewicz, searching through piles of donated shoes to find a pair for a boy whose old shoes were so tight his mother couldn't pry them off his squished toes. "There's no way to say thank you for the sacrifice they made in giving up their children,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so if you can't say thank you to the birth parent, you say it to their cousins and friends and community."
Sharon Smart-Poage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one of the founders of Mayan Families,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], says more and more adoptive parents have started volunteering in Guatemala. This group is the largest she's worked with yet, she said.
"Once they've been here, they can't forget about the need they've seen," says Ms. Smart-Poage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], herself the mother of two adopted Guatemalan girls. "They look at all the children on the streets,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they see their own child's face."
Last year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], more than 5,000 Guatemalan children were adopted by US families, with this small Central American nation second only to China in international adoptions. But this year all new adoptions have been halted while the government tries to regulate a corrupt adoption system awash in accusations that children were being stolen or mothers bribed to give up their children.
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