Adoption: A Family Choice
George

I have several pictures of George, including some from his orphanage in the Phillipines. Then, there is another article I wrote. If you just want to read the article, you can click HERE to go directly down to it.
George in his soccer uniform This is George, our 19 year old son. He loves his soccer team, and has also been in basketball and golf. Right now, he is on a track team.


"One of the agencies in the Phillippines, this is a typical nursery for orphaned children."

"While in a Phillipines orphanage, George...received the first Mulholland wheelchair."

This is George with several of the other kids at George's orphanage in the Phillippines. He's the one with the big smile and red coat. I think this picture was taken the day George left for his Forever Home in America.


One of the nuns looks on as George is all dressed up and ready for his trip by plane to the US.

"A Heart for Children"



George...Once frail and hydrocephalic, he was not expected to survive longer than a few months. At the time I met him, he was almost three years old, completely bedridden and unable to move anything except his hands and legs. A happy child, nevertheless, everyone loved him. We arranged medical treatment, but the biggest change came about when Holt sent a Mulholland "positioning system" specifically for George. For the first time at age four George saw his world from a seated, upright position. He loved sitting up in his chair and being out in the yard instead in his crib.

Later George began taking a few steps and, at 7 years old, he walked on his own without support to meet his new parents at the airport. Now he is a young man, who is getting ready to explore the world on his own!

George is just one of many, many chldren who have been touched by the mission."


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