Chennai

Christ Faith Home is a children’s home located in Chennai. It provides a loving safe home to abandoned children. The infants and children are taken care of by trained nurses and house mothers.
 


Christ Faith Home is dedicated to working towards meeting each child’s physical, spiritual, social, emotional, and educational needs. Their goal is to provide an environment in which these precious children have an opportunity to reach their full potential while waiting for their forever families.

The home provides each child with medical care, speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy if needed.
 
We were greeted with open arms by the director of Christ Faith Home, Maida.
Maida has a big heart and cares deeply for each child that resides at Christ Faith Home.

 

My heart was blessed beyond words when I was able witness one of Journeys of the Heart’s family meeting their daughter for the first time.

 
 
 

 


Children who wait for a family to call their own.

Madurai

Grace Kennett Foundation
Grace Kennett Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization that serves both as a hospital and as an orphanage.  This children’s home was set up by Grace Kennett Foundation predominately to help female infants that were stranded at birth.   Today many children reside at Grace Kennett waiting for families!  Journeys of the Heart is working with Grace Kennett to bring six beautiful children home to their forever families at this time. 
Grace Kennett’s Mission:
Our mission is to work with competence, compassion, and commitment for the sick and the needy, to help the victims of female infanticide and abandoned children first to survive and then to ensure the right of the child to a family.
 
We had the pleasure to celebrate a special little one’s birthday the day we visited Grace Kennett. 

Happy Birthday Sindu!





                                             Sindu was not happy that all the attention was on her!                            

                                                  She was soon enjoying her day!



Henna is loving her photo book. She is turning each page and looking at each photo very carefully, even though her book is upside down.


  
The other children are enjoying a special book that was sent to Henna.  

                                                                                                       

Children waiting to come home to their families. 

Special needs children wait for a family to call their own.

Nagpur

Matru Sewa Sangh, provides care and protection to orphans. Providing adoption services is the main function of this children’s home located in the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur. It is a recognized adoption agency (Licensed by CARA) and has done commendable work in the area of adoptions. Professionals work with each child throughout the adoption process to insure the child’s medical, physical and emotional needs are met.

Each year Journeys of the Heart places a few special needs children from Matru Sewa Sangh.

We have families that are considering adopting the two special needs children below.
 
 
This sweet girl has Cerebral Palsy. 
 
 
This little guy is missing a Kidney.

Hyderabad

Sishu Vihar, Women Development and Child Welfare Department is a children’s home ran by the government in Hyderabad.
 
Adoption undoubtedly offers an important avenue for the care and protection of an abandoned, destitute or neglected child in a family setting and provides an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding for the realization of his / her talents and potentials.
Written by Women and Development and Child Department
 
We were welcomed and greeted by two of Sishu Vihar’s social workers.  

 

Children who are waiting to come home to their forever families:

 


A child’s photo album can bring such hope and joy to a child! This little one is overjoyed when she sees photos of her family for the first time.



There are so many children with special needs that wait in Hyderabad for loving families.
Here are just a few children who need loving families in which they can grow and thrive.



This 14 month old little girl has Thalassemia.                 This 11 month old little girl is HIV +.

                                           


This sweet 8 month old baby girl can be referred
to a NRI family. Her only special need is that she is
malnourished and has a birthmark on her face. 

                                                          

Bal Anand

Bal Anand, a children’s home in Mumbai, has placed many special needs children with American families. Ms. Sulochana Kairo has a special place in her heart for these special children.
Here are a few children who have waited a long time for their forever family and it seems that time is running out.

Riyatulla is a 14 year old boy who thought he had a forever family. A family came to visit Riyatulla and he was told they wanted to adopt him. Later he was told they had changed their minds. Riyatulla was devastated. Riyatulla is very respectful to all adults he comes in contact with. He is especially kind to the younger children. He is said to be a very loyal and good friend.
 

Udyogi is a 12 year old girl who loves to dress up and wear beautiful bracelets and bangles. The social worker describes Udyogi as cooperative and helpful by nature. Udyogi had to have her left leg amputated and now walks with a custom made prosthesis.
 

Akshata is a nearly 10 year old girl who is of average intelligence. Akashata is always prepared to learn. She is a confident, friendly child and is very loving. Akshata has delayed language disorder and mild Cerebral Palsy.

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