A Vast Sea

I read a blog of a fellow China momma today, who is in China as I write this to bring home their little boy (you can read her blog here). She wrote that a few days ago they were able to visit their son's orphanage - which looked from her photos to be pretty large. In talking with the orphanage staff she learned that on average only ten children are adopted from the orphanage every year. And in this past year, only five have been adopted. Out of what I can only guess is hundreds of children in that particular institution.

I was just reminded again of the vast sea of orphans (see this list of all of the orphanages) in China (Americans, who adopt more than any other country from China, provide families for only .4% of the orphaned children there).

Sometimes, in the midst of waiting, its easy to forget that there isn't any lack of need for families, just a long process to work through. But for one little one, we're on our way! And before we know it, she will be an orphan no more.