Need Diapers & Milk powder for 14 babies in India

Dear Supporter,

Since you're supporting the babies at the Hope House's adoption agency, I thought to pen a few lines to tell you about our work. 

Although we started trying to get the adoption agency license in 2006, we had to wait till April of 2022 to have it.  This is the first and the only adoption agency in India that caters exclusively to children with special needs and we don't accept healthy children. 

If you're wondering why we choose to do this is to do with my younger daughter who was adopted from India (while living in the US) and was born with special needs.  She only needed one night stay in the hospital in the US to have the surgical correction of her limitation and she is no longer considered as an individual with special needs.

After relocating to India in 2006, I learnt that almost all the children with special needs get adopted by families overseas.  That got me to go around asking for answers and what I found had saddened me.  Not many Indian families are willing to adopt chidlren with special needs for the fear of cost of caring for a child with special needs and they are open to consideration if such special needs are addressed before hand.

My alma mater - Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, which was started by an American missionary 124 years ago rendering yeoman service to the mankind and I approached them with a request and they agreed to render such service to the children at our adoption agency as much as they possibly can.  With that assurance, we applied and received the license from the state of Tamilnadu to do in-country and intercountry adoptions.  Our primary objective is to render medical and rehabilitative servies to these precious children and try to find families within India but if that is not a possibility, perhaps an intercountry adoption.  

Government approved stregth of the facility is 14 children and currently we are up to our capacity with 14.  Total number of people working in the adoptiopn agency is 17 as the babies need care round the clock.  This includes three nurses and a part-time medical doctor. 

Currently, three of our children are being matched with adoptive familiies and the first child is expected to be adopted perhaps in middle of June, 2024.  This letter has already gotten longer, so, I'll end it here but if you like to know more, please do write to me at ruby@indiahopehouse.org or visit our web site at www.indiahopehouse.org.  I'll try and write at regular intervals to update you more about the intricacies of our work so that you don't remain a donor but become a stakeholder of this work.

In the mean time, if you know of anyone that would be interested in becoming a monthly donor for these babies, kindly do let them know or share their contact details and I'll reach out to them. 

With my warmest regards

Ruby Nakka