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The Children Are Coming!

Have you considered caring

for a foreign child in your home?

Are you longing to do something to make a difference in the lives of people who are needy?

children in Burmese camp in Thailand. http://www.karenkonnection.org/

Perhaps you are just the right family provide foster care for refugee children from Burma.

Burma (also called Myanmar) has been overrun by a military dictatorship that rules with an iron fist.

Soldiers often kidnap children and force them to carry their weapons, walking 9 miles a day without food. Cooperation with the Burmese militia is mandatory. You can read more about this at http://www.unrefugees.org/usaforunhcr/uploadedfiles/ThailandBurmeseFeb07.pdf

The requirements for international foster care are mostly the same as the requirements for foster care of children within our own country. To qualify you must:

Be 21 years of age or older
Be in good physical health
Be willing to submit the necessary criminal and child abuse clearances, including fingerprinting
Be willing to provide required documentation
Be willing to participate in a home study interview with staff from Lutheran Family Children Services of Pennsylvania (LCFS)
Be willing to provide a safe home environment
Be highly motivated to care for children in need
Be willing to work in partnership with LCFS to plan for the child's future
Be willing to attend required training

Most of the children (Unaccompanied Refugee Minors) who are presently coming from Burma range in age from 14 to 17.

Are you interested? Hope Flinchbaugh will be available to speak to your church or school at no cost to briefly present this opportunity and to answer any questions you may have. (Hope and her family are personally taking in two Burmese daughters ages 15 and 17.)

Lutheran Children and Family Service website: http://www.lcfsinpa.org/refugee_resettlement/burmese

Questions? Feel free to contact Kaitlin Lord, Community Resource Developer in the Pennsylvania office, at 215 456 5700 ext. 230. Even if you are from another state besides Pennsylvania, Kaitlin can direct you to the right resources for your area.

Statement from Lutheran Children Family Service:

LCFS welcomes children in need as a non-profit, faith-based agency, providing services without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, educational level, or veteran status.

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