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• 26 - steve

  Sep 10, 2005 at 9:58 pm

  What can be done? How about...build outside or around the large "bowl" aka New Orleans? There's a start. Next...track where the billions of dollars congress approved are being spent. you have to make sure no dem's start up a sweet little slush fund. from there...any suggestions?

• 27 - wakina webster

  Sep 11, 2005 at 11:48 pm

  I live in Anniston AL. I would love to foster or adopt an infant child who has been affected by Huricane Katrina. I have a seventeen year old daughter and a ten year old son. We would love to open our home to a child in need.

• 28 - Tammy Newton

  Sep 12, 2005 at 9:51 am

  My name is Tammy and I am looking for information on who to contact for information on how to adopt a child that was orphaned in the hurricane Katrina disaster. Please help me!
  Thanks,
  Tammy

• 29 - DrPat

  Sep 12, 2005 at 10:21 am

  Katrina orphans & foster children: According to sources in the affected state's governments, there are three things you should know about fostering or adopting Katrina orphans:

  1. Louisiana and Mississippi will be working with other states in finding foster children needed homes, but they cannot place children in unlicensed homes.
  2. Adoption of Hurricane Katrina orphans will not be a possibility for many months as agencies work to locate family first. Many families have been separated. It may take several months before we know which children have extended family ready to take them in and which children need an adoption placement.
  3. The court process of terminating parental rights takes many months. Not only for the scheduling of the court date itself, but to prove that a child does not have family resources.
  
  In any case, this news article is not the place to express your willingness to adopt or help these orphans and foster children.
  
  Carrie Craft of About.com recommends: "Remember that your home state is always in need of foster families as many wait in group homes for a family. If you are not called upon to help a Hurricane Katrina child, please consider helping other children in need within your community."
  
  The link at the top of this comment includes many ways to help Katrina orphans and fosters while the waiting period passes.
  

• 30 - Summerlin

  Sep 12, 2005 at 2:12 pm

  Our hearts go out mainly to those devistated orphaned children. We would like to recieve any information anyone has about either fostering or adopting TWO children from the hurricane, we would very much like to keep siblings together. So again please contact us, as soon as possible! Thanks

• 31 - Brenda Kelly

  Sep 17, 2005 at 8:24 am

  My husband & I are licensed foster/adoptive parents on the East Coast of Maryland. We have a 13 year old son and a 2 1/2 year old daughter. Our son is our birth child. We adopted our daughter last year. She came into our home as a foster child at 4 weeks of age. We would love to give a child who has lost their family a place in our home. Please contact us.

• 32 - Dawn

  Sep 18, 2005 at 1:50 am

  I would like to find out if any lost or orphaned children need homes. I don't like to see so many kids placed in centers with growds of others. Let me know of any young children needing a home and please e.mail me with any questions and ages on the children.

• 33 - patsy garmeson

  Sep 18, 2005 at 9:09 pm

  My husband and I have a 3 bedroon 2 bath home, that we would love to have 2 children to come and stay with us for a while til their parents are found. One boy and one girl. We live in Adobe Ridge Rd. So. Mobile, ala. 36695 our phone # is 251-391-1242. Please call, we would love to have them. Thank you so much.
  
  Patsy and Marty Garmeson

• 34 - Rhonda Mount

  Sep 20, 2005 at 11:17 pm

  My husband and I have been talking about the children. I have 2 grown children and 2 grandchildren. We have a 5 year old son at home.He is my step-son.But to me,he is my son. We would like very much to adopt a child.We have been praying for a little girl; but now we would take whichever God saw fit to bless us with. I am on disability due to Lupus. We have been trying to find out if we would even be allowed to adopt or be foster parents. If any one has any answers please let me know.P.O.Box 435 Brantley.Alabama,36009

• 35 - Karen

  Sep 24, 2005 at 11:00 pm

  My husband and I live in NY. We have 3 kids. I am interested in finding/getting information on how to go about fostering or adopting one of the children that was affected by hurraicane Katrina. We would love to give a child who has lost their family a place in our home. Please contact us.
  
  Karen Mojica

• 36 - dorcas croft

  Sep 25, 2005 at 3:01 pm

  i am interested in adopting a child from the huricane devistation. i live in england and i think maybe a change of environment may help the child to start a new life

• 37 - DrPat

  Sep 25, 2005 at 5:03 pm

  To reiterate a comment from further back in this thread:
  
  Katrina orphans & foster children: According to sources in the affected state's governments, there are three things you should know about fostering or adopting Katrina orphans:

  1. Louisiana and Mississippi will be working with other states in finding foster children needed homes, but they cannot place children in unlicensed homes.
  2. Adoption of Hurricane Katrina orphans will not be a possibility for many months as agencies work to locate family first.
     Many families have been separated. It may take several months before we know which children have extended family ready to take them in and which children need an adoption placement.
  3. The court process of terminating parental rights takes many months. Not only for the scheduling of the court date itself, but to prove that a child does not have family resources.
  
  In any case, this news article is not the place to express your willingness to adopt or help these orphans and foster children.
  
  Carrie Craft of About.com recommends: "Remember that your home state is always in need of foster families as many wait in group homes for a family. If you are not called upon to help a Hurricane Katrina child, please consider helping other children in need within your community."
  
  The link at the top of this comment includes many ways to help Katrina orphans and fosters while the waiting period passes.
  

• 38 - Valery

  Sep 25, 2005 at 10:09 pm

  i would love to adopt a child that has become an orphan due to all of this- if anyone has any information, please contact me...

• 39 - John Goulet

  Oct 02, 2005 at 6:53 pm

  I don't want to adopt, but I could offer our country home in New Hampshire until a child is re-united with their parent. My son is now 33 and his room is empty. These children are stressed enough, being clustered in big buildings with no personal attention is emotionally harmful.

• 40 - DrPat

  Oct 02, 2005 at 7:12 pm

  This is NOT the place for this! If you're serious about adopting or fostering or helping Katrina orphans, go here.
  

• 41 - Scott Butki

  Oct 03, 2005 at 12:29 am

  Just curious: Why is this not a good place for this discussion? Or do you mean just if you're serious about action then go to that link?

• 42 - Gyndlyn

  Oct 11, 2005 at 9:41 am

  I would like to find out if there is any children orphaned between the ages of 5-9 in the McComb MS. area if so will someone please let me know. I am interested in adopting or fostering a child

• 43 - Carl

  Sep 27, 2011 at 7:45 am

  I am also looking to adopt a child, preferbaly an african american male, to help my family around the farm and other chores. I'm not certain whether I can pay him for this but he well be fed ocassionally in exchange.
  Please contact me. Thanks.

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