Doug Chalke, Director of the Sunrise Family Services Center (a BC Adoption agency) recently wrote an article addressing the issue of abandoned children living in orphanages in Guatemala, and the inability for Canadians to adopt these orphans. The article is a call to action for the Canadian government to address this issue and to allow Canadians to give new life to these children.

"There has been so much focus on adopting newborn children within Guatemala that abandoned or apprehended children have been all but forgotten. I recently visited these children and it was obvious to me that they need to grow up in loving and safe families. Very little financial support is available from the Guatemalan government to run these orphanages; the country simply does not have the financial reserves to do it. 90% of the orphanages rely on donations to survive."

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