In 2013 we adopted our daughter from India. She was abandoned on the streets at age 2 and taken into an orphanage, where she survived unthinkable emotional and physical abuse and neglect for over two years. Her persistent, debilitating anxiety and fear of abandonment made it virtually impossible for her to trust us enough to allow us to love her through it.
After exhausting insurance-covered treatment options, she was enrolled in a Christian therapeutic boarding school we learned about through some other families who have enrolled their children with RAD there. Their Christ-centered program has provided her not only with quality (Abeka) education, but also functional life skills, as well as the trauma-informed counseling support she needs.
Now 16, she has some pretty tough diagnoses, and her dysfunctional relationship patterns still plague her, but she has shown remarkable progress in this therapeutic living environment, and we’re hopeful that she will be able to complete the treatment program and return home in a few months.
This ongoing financial burden is substantial, so we are reaching out for your help. We have again partnered with Lifesong for Orphans, who has very generously awarded us multiple matching grants, but they have informed us that this will be the last one they can provide. For every dollar you give, Lifesong will match it and provide you with a receipt for tax purposes.
We know times are tight for most of us these days, and there is no shortage of people needing help. We have tried to share enough of our situation that you can understand our true need, while trying to protect her story and her privacy too. It is such a tender, hard place to navigate.
You may not know us, but perhaps know the person sharing our story with you. It has been said it takes a village to raise a child. We are trusting God to work through our greater community and network, to help us provide His child the best opportunity we can to experience God’s love for her, to find her healing, and to learn to live a healthy, purposeful life.
We cannot thank you enough. We pray God blesses you many times over in return.
Michael & Aimee Hart
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