HOPE ADOPTION INC
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Mission Statement
Hope International’s mission is to unite orphaned children from around the world with loving adoptive families; to provide educational programs and continuing support services to these families; and to provide humanitarian aid to the children left behind in orphanages, foster care, and medical facilities.
About This Cause
WHAT WE ARE: Hope International is a not-for-profit international adoption and humanitarian aid agency based in Dallas, Texas. For over 20 years, Hope’s mission has been WHY WE EXIST: All children enter the world with biological parents. However, because of factors like poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and cultural bias, not every child has a loving family. Hope International unites orphaned children from around the world with parents who long to provide a brighter future for a child. This endeavor requires significant support for the children and the families. Orphaned children are at-risk children. Often they do not receive enough food, medical attention, social interaction or education. Typically a child is four months developmentally delayed for every year they live in an institution. Most of these children receive little education and have virtually no experience beyond the orphanage walls. When these children “age out” of these institutions, 80% will turn to prostitution in order to survive and 20% will commit suicide within a year of leaving the orphanage. There are over 2 million children in orphanages in Russia, China and Ukraine alone. OUR HISTORY: In 1992 Dallas Attorney Carla Calabrese began facilitating international adoptions through A Cradle of Hope Adoption Center in Dallas, Texas. After spending extensive time in Russia and seeing the plight of Russian orphans, Ms. Calabrese formed a non-profit organization to focus on uniting orphans with “forever” families and to provide humanitarian aid to children living in the orphanages. From this vision Hope International was founded. Hope International began full-time international adoption work in January 1997. Since that time, Hope has helped over 200 children find “forever families.” OUR SERVICES: Hope is currently one of only a few Dallas- based adoption agencies to receive Hague accreditation which is needed to conduct international adoptions under the Universal Accreditation Act of 2013, and the only agency accredited to handle outgoing adoptions. Hope is licensed by the State of Texas to conduct international adoptions and domestic adoptions. Hope provides: • Complete adoption services for international and domestic adoptions for US adoptive parents living anywhere in the United States or Abroad; • Home studies for Texas residents for international adoptions (for any country); • Home studies for Texas residents for domestic adoptions; • Post adoption reporting for Texas residents for international and domestic adoptions • Humanitarian aid for orphaned children who remain in-country and may never know the love of a family. Hope has provided hot water heaters in Haiti and Uzbekistan, mattresses and mosquito nets to Haiti and Liberia, funds to dig a well in Liberia, an institutional stove to a Russian orphanage; wheelchairs and funds for surgeries to foster children in China; and has provided clothing, food, medicines, medical supplies, and school supplies to children in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, China, Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.