When another family traveled recently to Jonah's orphanage to adopt their own child they blessed us with new pictures of him. We were so excited to finally have current pictures of Jonah, and naturally my first thought was to see if he looked healthy. I wasn't pleased with what I saw. His nose looked cruddy with both junk and blood. One of his ears looked red with infection. His cheeks looked flushed with fever. His lips looked chapped, and there was a sore near his mouth.
Kids with Down syndrome tend to get sick more frequently and more severely than other kids. Even in a clean home environment with parents to care for them and great medical care they suffer more with illness. Jonah's orphanage would be a bad place for even a healthy child, but for a child with Down syndrome it's downright dangerous. We desperately need to get Jonah out of that orphanage. We are at the very end of the process and will be getting our travel approval anytime now. However, we can't make any travel arrangements until we have the money to pay for them. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Reece's Rainbow to help us rescue this precious little boy!
Here is the link to the donation site. Jonah is known as Breck on Reece's Rainbow because that is the name they used to advocate for him long before we chose to adopt him.
http://reecesrainbow.org/75910/sponsormurray
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