Donation Opportunities
Many families ask us how they can give back to their child’s birth country and the children left behind. Listed below are several humanitarian organizations and special projects which you can contribute to by using our online donation form or by contacting Thomas Gill, Director of Development, at 616.667.0677. Donations to projects and programs are tax-deductible.
Adoption Associates, Inc.
Promoting domestic and international adoption for God’s glory
Adoption Associates, Inc. is a licensed, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization. Adoption Associates, Inc. exists to promote domestic and international adoption for God’s glory. The benefits of adoption offered to birth mothers, their children from unplanned pregnancies, and orphaned children abroad are designed to reflect the spirit of adoption modeled by God in Ephesians 1 of the Bible. Accordingly, AAI is a Christian organization, founded on Christian beliefs and values. Pregnancy and adoption services are provided to clients of all faiths.
Donations to the agency are used for a variety of causes including special needs placements, special birth parent situations, international program development and orphanage donations.
If you would like to contribute to AAI, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Hosts of Hope
Helping orphans create connections
The Hosts of Hope is a special program that facilitates connections between potential adoptive families and older children residing in orphanages overseas. Through this program, children come to the United States for a two to three week period, and stay with host families. These families are most often open to the possibility of adoption, and our prayer is that a bond will develop between each child and their host family. This gives the children an opportunity to learn what ‘family’ life in the U.S. is about. Their stay includes several group activities with all of the children, as well as everyday individual family experiences. The goal of this program is to provide every child that participates a permanent adoptive family. Our goal for 2008 is to raise $120,000.
If you would like to donate to Hosts of Hope, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Room for One More
Supporting orphanages in dire need of improvements
There are nearly six million orphans in Ethiopia and Nepal. Although these children are considered fortunate because they have a roof over their heads and the promise of food every day, they are still victims of the squalor of the third world. The orphanages that these children live in are often in dire need of improvement, and the children who live there frequently lack the necessities that we take for granted, such as suitable clothing and toys.
Through a financial gift, you can help improve the living situation of these children.
If you would like to contribute to these orphanages, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Our Call to Nepal
Helping children living in three orphanages in Nepal
Three orphanages that AAI works with in Nepal are struggling to provide not only adequate clothing and shelter for the children, but enough food as well. Consequently, many of these children are malnourished, which places them at risk of severe developmental delays and serious illness.
Funds are needed to ensure that these orphanages continually receive enough infant formula, cereal, and supplements to provide for the children’s nutritional needs. Additional donations are needed to hire more nannies to care for the children and to purchase baby bottles, infant spoons, bowls, food for older children, and clothing. Funds exceeding the project goal will be earmarked to make significant improvements to the structures of the orphanages.
A gift to Our Call to Nepal will significantly impact many orphaned children for a lifetime. Do you feel called to contribute?
If you would like to contribute to Our Call to Nepal, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Embracing Ethiopia
Helping children living in an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
AAI has made a long-term commitment to sponsoring children in Ethiopia. Orphanages which house hundreds of children need support for its children. AAI sponsors economically poor family households by reducing their poverty and facilitating the education of their children. AAI has also established an office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Funds are needed to both support the children and to cover expenses for the new office.
If you would like to contribute to Embracing Ethiopia, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Birth Parent Video Project
Helping women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy
Did you know that less than 2% of women who experience an unplanned pregnancy will choose adoption? It’s a startling statistic, but if you think about it, how many birth parents do you know? Part of the reason why so few women choose adoption is because, just like you, they don’t know other birth parents who have gone on to live normal, successful lives. In order to give these women stories from other women who have been in their situation, AAI has just produced a new birth parent video. This video follows one woman through her decision to plan adoption and highlights many other women of various ages and cultural backgrounds who have also chosen adoption.
Support is needed to help complete the funding for the video that will be used by AAI, and crisis pregnancy centers and other supporting agencies nationwide. Our goal is to raise $76,500.
If you would like to contribute to the Birth Parent Video Project, you may use our secure, online donation form.
Blessings in Bundles
Shipping Clothing and Medical Supplies to AAI-Sponsored Orphanages
AAI has partnered with several organizations to collect “blessings” for children in AAI-sponsored orphanages in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Nepal. Donated clothing and medical supplies are bundled and either sent with families who are traveling to these orphanages, or shipped directly. Since the needs of the children are constant and year-round, our goal is to be able to fund shipping on a consistent basis.
If you would like to donate to Blessings in Bundles, call 616.667.0677 or you may use our secure, online donation form.
Support Orphans in China
Receive China note cards with your gift of $50
When you make a $50 donation to Adoption Associates, Inc., you will receive a boxed set of note cards created by orphans in the Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Social Welfare Institute, an orphanage in China’s Hunan Province. 100% of your donation will help fund China’s Tomorrow Plan project.
Support Nepalese Orphans
Receive Nepal note cards with your gift of $50
When you make a $50 donation to Adoption Associates, Inc., you will receive a boxed set of note cards featuring artwork created by Nepalese orphans. 100% of your donation will help fund Our Call to Nepal, a humanitarian project that provides Nepalese orphans with infant formula, cereal, and supplements, as well as adequate clothing, better living conditions, and excellent adult care.
Support Russian Orphans in Arkhangelsk
Receive Russia note cards with your gift of $50
When you make a $50 donation to Adoption Associates, Inc., you will receive a boxed set of note cards created by orphans in the Sol Vichegodosk orphanage and the Vichegodsk Home for Deaf Children. 100% of your donation will go to the orphans of Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Friends of Russian Orphans
Providing practical assistance to Russian orphanages
Friends of Russian Orphans, (FORO), is an American mission organization, based in Sylvania, Ohio, dedicated to caring for orphans and their caregivers in the Arkhangelsk Region and elsewhere in Russia.
Their mission is to provide practical assistance and friendship programs at Russian orphanages, and by doing so, share the love and good news of Jesus Christ with Russian children and adults touched by FORO’s activities.
If you would like to contribute to FORO, you may use our secure, online donation form. 100% of your donation will go directly to this project.
Tomorrow Plan
Providing special needs children with operations for rehabilitation
The Tomorrow Plan Project is part of a three-year project directed by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs in which China has undertaken a massive humanitarian project to provide free corrective surgeries for handicapped orphans.
The Tomorrow Plan will involve 30,000 handicapped children. To accomplish this project, joint efforts are needed from thousands of people. Please start to take action—participate in this handicapped-orphan-benefiting campaign. Let us work hand in hand to create a beautiful tomorrow for them.
To find out more about the Tomorrow Plan, please view our Tomorrow Plan Video.
If you would like to contribute to the Tomorrow Plan, you may use our secure, online donation form. 100% of your donation will go directly to this project.
