Q. What’s Reeces Rainbow?
A. 501 (c)3 organization that promotes the international adoption of children with Down syndrome by raising money to offer adoption grants on waiting children. They give adoptive families the extra financial help they need to bring a child with Down syndrome home from a miserable existence in overseas orphanages.
Q. Why donate?
A. A lot more people will come forward and adopt if only they had the financial means to. By setting up grants for the children we are helping to make them more adoptable for families that maybe wouldn’t be able to afford it. International adoption costs on average $25K.
Q. Why not adopt domestically?
A. Well there are all different reasons, but the bottom line is that every child needs a home.
Q. What happens if they don’t find homes?
A. Unlike with “normal” children, after a child with down syndrome reaches approximately age 5, the child is moved out of the baby orphanage and into a mental institution. Yes, a mental institution! Children with down syndrome are not Mental! However if they are not adopted by age 5 they are deemed unadoptable and transferred to a mental institution. The care in these mental institutions is so bad, that only 10% of children survive the mental institution. That’s why it’s so important to help bring a family to them. If you want to know the Hard Truth, check out Maria’s webpage: http://www.wix.com/brookeness/maria
Q. Why don’t we try to stop them from transferring them to mental institutions?
A. Given that were are dealing with international countries if we try to impose our ways, they can rebel and refuse to adopt out to USA or Canada or whomever tries to get them to change. Along with possible other problems that may arise with foreign affairs, so we must accept it and work around it through positive adoption. Reece's Rainbow though is now offering a "connect the rainbow" program where they are trying to educate that children with down syndrome are a blessing and help them raise them. Read more here: http://reecesrainbow.org/sponsorship/connecting-the-rainbow
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