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HIV+, 10+

HIV is a virus that claims many innocent lives when children do not have access to antiretroviral medications. Fortunately, it is treatable and the children who have access to medication and adhere to their treatment can live indefinitely without developing AIDS and can live long and full lives. HIV is now considered a chronic but manageable disease, even easier to treat than pediatric diabetes.

HIV can NOT be spread through casual/household contact. HIV is not spread through hugging, kissing, shaking hands, sharing toys, sneezing, coughing, sharing food, sharing drinks, bathing, swimming or any other casual way. It has been proven that HIV and AIDS can only be spread through sexual contact, birth, breastfeeding and intravenously (such as used needles and blood transfusions).

Children born to women with the virus have a chance of becoming HIV positive due to mother-to-child-transmission. These children are innocent carriers of the virus. The children you see below are currently living in institutions. Sadly, if they end up aging out of institutional life, there is a high likelihood they will be ill on the streets in a life of crime.

Recent laws in the US and Canada allow for these children to be adopted. Being in a loving family helps them access medical care and gives them the opportunity to have a normal, healthy, productive life. They can go to college, get married, give birth to healthy babies and live long enough to meet their grandchildren.

Here is an overview of the medical aspects of living with a child with HIV. To learn more about adopting and parenting a child living with HIV, visit ProjectHopeful.org

PLEASE HELP US raise grant funds and awareness for these precious, waiting angels. You really can save a life, with even the smallest gift! You can make a Paypal donation or send a check (no Paypal fees) to: Reece’s Rainbow, PO Box 4024, Gaithersburg, MD 20885. Your gift will serve ALL of the children, as 10% of each waiting child donation is shared with our Voice of Hope fund as well!

Vlad

Boy, Born September 22, 1999

From our facilitator who has visited with him: HIV. Vlad is very healthy and has the most striking green eyes!  His life story is very typical.   The  boy doesn't have brothers and sisters, the mother  died.  Super boy. Physically developed perfectly well.   By the fact very healthy, practically never ill. He is very fond of English, reads children stories without a dictionary, speaks  good English.   The boy is very communicative, always optimistic.   He is very supportive with friends and very polite and obedient with the teachers and caregivers.  Dreams about obtaining a family.
 
 

***Vlad is also an OLDER CHILD, and will have no opportunities if he ages out. His "orphan and HIV status" will follow him the rest of her life.  Please give Vlad a chance to grow up knowing the love of a family and having basic the opportunities that he deserves. ***

 

For more info and parent support on adopting and raising a child with HIV, please visit http://www.projecthopeful.org/

$689.80 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

Donations are tax deductible.
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HIV+, 10+
Orphanage 43
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George

Boy, born January 2003
George is HIV+

 

Such beautiful hazel eyes this boy has!

More photos available.

For more info and parent support on adopting and raising a child with HIV, please visit http://www.projecthopeful.org/

 

$921.44 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

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Iris

IrisGirl, born 2001
HIV+

Iris is a lovely young lady; she is described as curious and enthusiastic.

From someone who met Iris in 2012:  Iris is a sweet girl who loves attention and physical affection. She loves to be hugged and will play with your hair and sit in your lap. She is a big helper within her group, and is a good friend (more like a big sister) to many of the other kids in her group. She is very affectionate with those kids, and will play with them and try to pick them up. She has great play skills, and loves dolls. She also enjoys playing with balloons (hitting them back and forth to other people), and coloring with markers. I have been told she was not burnt, but that she has a birthmark. She is taking medication for her hiv. Her cognitive abilities and social awareness are not what you would expect from a child of her age, and I am not sure how much of this is due to orphanage delays.

Large families welcome. Married couples only; travel required.

$16193.84 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

Donations are tax deductible.
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Available to Older Parents
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HIV+, 10+
Sizeable Grants ($15,000+)
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Andrey

Boy, Born November 29, 2002

 

From our facilitator who has visited with him:

HIV.    His life story is very typical   The  boy doesn’t have brothers and sisters. His mother abandoned him at the delivery house,  the father was registered after the mother’s words.  Loves to construct, to draw, very assiduous,  wants to know  everything about What? Where? When and  Who?   Hardworking, can focus his attention and  be concentrated on the most important things.   Among children he is very supportive and friendly. For more info and parent support on adopting and raising a child with HIV, please visit http://www.projecthopeful.org/

 

$206.50 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

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HIV+, 10+
Orphanage 43
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Trudy

TrudyGirl, born 1998
HIV+

 

Trudy is the older sister of Tristan and Tatiana.

All three children can be adopted together or separately; they are currently in the same region, but in different orphanages.  We hope to find a family where they can stay together!

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Available to Older Parents
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Yana

Girl, Born November 9, 2001

 

Diagnosis: FAS and HIV positive.

Look at this cutie patootie!  Perfect little princess, this one is, ready for the red carpet and a cameo appearance on Hannah Montana :)     We are waiting on further medical info, but Yana also shows many of the common facial characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. 

 

For more info and parent support on adopting and raising a child with HIV, please visit http://www.projecthopeful.org/
 

$1231.70 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

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Orphanage 28
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Devon (Brian)

Devon11007070126 (1)Boy, Born October 15, 2001

 

For more info and parent support on adopting and raising a child with HIV, please visit http://www.projecthopeful.org/ 

Devon was previously listed as “Brian” — but it’s the same boy!  He’s so handsome, and still waiting for a family.

 

$2106.00 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

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Jeanette

JeanetteGirl, born 2003
HIV, strabismus, congenital cataract (blind in right eye)
Mild to moderate mental delays, FAS, tuberculosis of the lymph nodes

 

Update March 2013:

Jeanette was exposed to alcohol prenatally.  She has issues with impulsivity/understanding consequences.   She is well-liked where she is, but needs additional support to succeed in school.  It’s recommended that Jeanette would do great with older children whom could help correct her behavior and could model appropriate behavioral for her.

She is very sweet and loves to draw, and color.  She pays great attention to detail in her drawings and when she is doing something she like to do like drawing she can sit still for a very long time doing it. She is also very funny and dramatic. She loves to act and dance and sing and make goofy faces and act silly to make people laugh. She could do well in a family but they would need to be prepared for FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome).

$3340.45 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

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HIV+, 10+
Newly Listed Children
Sizeable Grants ($2500+)
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Devora

Devora

Girl, born February 2002
Mental delay, HIV

Creative, eager

Devora is a real sweetie pie! She loves to have her head rubbed, and enjoys being tickled. Her smiles and giggles are absolutely heart melting! She does not talk, stand, or walk as far as I could tell. Her idea of mischief is to kick off a shoe or hide her arm inside of her sweatshirt, and she’d giggle as these things were corrected.

She seemed to find it very amusing when I would ask her where her hand was, then say “There it is” as I removed it from inside of her shirt. This became a game, and she would giggle as she hid her arm again as soon as I removed it from inside of her shirt. She is a very content little girl, and something as simple as a spiky ball could put a big grin on her face. I never saw her upset as long as she was allowed to play in either her bed or her chair, but she would become upset if I tried to move her to a more unfamiliar area to play.

$165.00 is available towards the cost of my adoption!

Donations are tax deductible.
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Available to Older Parents
code-2
HIV+, 10+
Other Angels Girls, 10+
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