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China Waiting Children Program
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Each year China has thousands of children available for international adoptions. For every healthy baby adopted, countless Special Needs children remain available but un-adopted, their very existence unknown to families who could and would adopt them. Some of these children are abandoned as a result of their condition; some are given up because of their family's inability to provide for them due to illness, poverty or disease. All of them need loving families just as much, if not more than healthy children. It is because of these beautiful, unknown children that we introduce our Special Needs Program.
The Waiting Children Program was started by the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) in 2002. The CCAA approves a limited number of agencies to participate in this program. America World is honored to have the CCAA assign referrals of Special Needs children to us, and allows us the opportunity to find loving families for them. Every 3-4 months, America World receives a new group of 30-40 Special Needs referrals.
Who are the children behind the Special Needs label? The children who are available through this program can range in age from 6 months to 13 years old. They can be male or female, and all have some type of condition that classifies them as Special Needs. The special needs that are typically seen are the cleft lip/palate, heart defect, club foot, hearing or vision problems, hand/foot deformity, Hepatitis B positive, etc. The majority of children available through this program have a medically correctable special need. Healthy children over the age of 6 years are also occasionally available through this program.
NOTE: Due to changes in CCAA's policy, families who have submitted a dossier to the CCAA with another agency are unable to adopt a Special Needs child from America World's Special Needs list.
We have a number of special needs children waiting to be adopted. If you would like more information about the children currently available, please enter the password below or contact the
Waiting Children Coordinator.
CONFIDENTIAL: This is a password protected website. Families viewing the website must adhere to America World’s confidentiality policy, which restricts families from sharing a child’s information or the password with other individuals. Thank you for taking these steps toward protecting all waiting children!:
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