Kidnapped. Held Hostage. Ransom.

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Kidnapping really isn't something to make light of.
We're using the terms in our fundraising efforts
but I've been uncomfortable with it from the beginning.
People are taken from their families every day.
Children are stolen.
Held hostage.
Sometimes, if the family is lucky, there is a ransom.
A little glimmer of hope that their family member is alright and can be returned to them.

In this adoption, I've heard a lot about the fee's that we have to pay.

That's why we are fundraising, after all. To pay those fees.
I've come to think of those fee's-
That $20- $25,000 that this adoption will end up costing
As The Child's Ransom.


He has lost his family.
LOST.
He is suffering the greatest loss a child can have and it's possible he doesn't even know it.
He's never lived in a family setting.
But he has lost his family.

And now, he is being held by his country,
(while we try to jump through all the hoops
fill out all the paperwork
and sign documents in our own blood)
For a ransom.

A ransom we MUST pay to be able to allow him to have a family.

If you are reading this because a friend or family member has contacted you and said
"I'm kidnapped, being held hostage by a family who is fundraising for an adoption. Help me raise my ransom?"

Please, consider it. The ransom you contribute towards today isn't really your friend or family members ransom.

It's The Child's ransom.

Thank You.