A Journey of Hope

FTIA is pleased to announce our newest China adoption program, Journey of Hope! This program is designed to find families for some of the most fragile of China's orphans - those children who might not otherwise find their permanent loving families. Our program will truly be a "Journey of Hope" as a team of FTIA staff will travel to Jiangsu province in China July 4-10 to meet with 31 children whose files have been assigned exclusively to FTIA. Our team will consist of our Program Manager, Director of Social Work Services, and an international adoption physician. We will be able to play with, interview, evaluate, and video each child to learn as much as we can about each of their needs, personalities, and dreams of a family. We'll be playing games with the children and using an Olympic theme for the program. Our team will then return home and will have one year to find families for these children.

It is our utmost hope that we find forever families for every one of these 31 special children. Our journey will be amazing and we'd like to encourage all of our FTIA families, past and present, to help make this program a success. We need your help even if you aren't in a position to adopt one of these children. We estimate the cost of this program will be about $12,000; and we need to find sponsors to help us with this cost. Since we are using an Olympic theme, we will have 3 levels of sponsorship: gold medal (donation of $500), silver medal (donation of $250), and bronze medal (donation of $100). These 3 medal levels of sponsorship are suggested amounts, and we will of course gladly accept any amount your are able to donate. All donations are tax deductible and can be made via PayPal on our website or by mailing a check payable to FTIA with "Journey of Hope" in the memo line. We want to make our Journey of Hope an Olympic-sized success and know that, with the help of our families, we will!!