Sunny

This week we want to tell you about “Sunny!” Sunny is a shy and quiet 12 year old girl in our Journey of Hope program. She is in 4th grade and her favorite subjects are Chinese and English. She likes basketball and running. She rides her bike 20 minutes to school every day and last year ran in a marathon!

Sunny participated in another Journey of Hope program last year and was sad that she didn’t find a family. She has been with a foster family for six years now. Her foster mother describes her as kind and loving, likes to share, and help with housework. She says that Sunny saves her money for donating. Sunny has a mild intellectual delay due to hydrocephalus and a brain tumor which was repaired about eight years ago. Sunny also loves arts and crafts and brought several of her handicrafts to show us.

If you’d like to learn more about Sunny or any of our other Journey of Hope children, please go to our website at: http://www.ftia.org/waitingchildren/JOHList.asp Families that currently have active applications with FTIA can see all the files of the Journey of Hope children and the Special Focus children by joining the JOH Yahoo group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FTIA-JOH. If you aren’t currently active with FTIA, just fill out and fax us an application (with no fees) and once received, we will send you an invitation to join the Yahoo group.

Alex

Alex was the biggest giggler of all the Journey of Hope kids! His favorite game with the doctors was to take their equipment and walk away with it – waiting for them to catch him. Give this boy a retractable tape measure and he could laugh for hours! There is ashort clip of him available here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFCxbAq3Ca8&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFCxbAq3Ca8&NR=1>Alex lives with hydrocephalus. Alex has had no treatment for this condition up to this point. However, he has no limitations. In fact, he is at or above target in most areas when compared to children his age.He is 4 years old and has good muscle tone and reflexes. He interacts well and is extroverted.To learn more about the Journey of Hope program, please go to our website at:http://www.ftia.org/waitingchildren/JOHList.asphttp://www.ftia.org/waitingchildren/JOHList.asp> Families do no tneed to officially apply with FTIA to review the Journey of Hope children's files – they only need to fax us a completedapplication in order that we can determine their eligibility to adopt.