10 families adopt 18 Haitian children
A total of 10 families in the Tri-State area of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois are in the process of adopting 18 Haitian children from the same orphanage.
It all started in 2005, when Michelle and Jeremy Cundiff decided that they wanted to add to their family of 5 through adoption. During their search for places to adopt from, they watched a TV show about adopting children from Haiti. They knew that Haiti was the right place for them to look for a child to bring into their home.
Through word of mouth and friends talking to friends, the adoption story grew to include 9 other families in the Tri-State area. Friends of friends began to be interested in adopting children from Haiti. This has led to a total of 18 children that are currently going the the adoption process from the same orphanage.
Sadly, Haiti is considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Because of this poverty, each of the 18 children was brought to the orphanage by a biological parent who was unable to care for the child.
“It’s not that they don’t want the children or don’t love the children. It’s that they love them so much that they give them up,” Jeremy Cundiff said.
The Cundiffs had the opportunity to meet the birth mother of the two girls they adopted. The birth mother thanked them for adopting the children.
