Orphan Crisis and Orphans with Special Needs in Eastern Europe

Why Should YOU help?!
Please....if these videos do not help you understand how important it is to rescue these kids, I am not sure what will.
Video #1http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/utah-family-saves-ukraine-girl-15236476

Video #2Serbian Mental Institutions

Video#3 Ukraine's Forgotten Children

I want to say that I realize not all orphan care in Eastern Europe is like what is seen in either of these videos. I realize there are places where the orphans are taken good care of, kept clean and fed, and cared for as much as an orphanage setting can care for a child. I have heard of many "good" baby-houses and institutions as well as many, many bad. The fact is, a family is something that will change a child's life forever. So many of these children know what a mom and/or a dad is, and that is what they want. A family. A life. A chance. Can you help me give Nanette a chance at a life she otherwise can only dream about?!

From the Reece's Rainbow website:
Staggering Statistics Take a minute to read through this carefully. It is mind boggling… In Central and Eastern European countries alone (this would include Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Romania, etc, but NOT Russia), there are more than 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN who have been abandoned by their families for one reason or another and are living in "public care" (that's the nice way to put it). If statistically, 1 out of every 733 live births results in a child with Down syndrome, that means at any given time there are 2,046 children with Down syndrome who need families.

THAT'S JUST IN EUROPE!!

Some do not survive because of serious medical complications…some do not survive because of lack of medical attention, lack of food, lack of LOVE. In Russia, there are over 700,000 children waiting for families, meaning at least 955 children with Down syndrome wait, languishing. In ASIA (China, Hong Kong, Korea, India), there are 3,572,000 orphans, with nearly 5000 children with Down syndrome who are unwanted. Many of those children are killed at birth. The "lucky" ones end up in orphanages and foster care situations.