Kids Walking Kids Home

**I posted this (below) on my other blog, but couldn't be as open about it as I can be here. We haven't quite decided how open we are going to be with our church about Kendi Mae's status and I'm just not quite ready to come out to the public blog world yet.

Anyway, I wanted to mention that Eric and I do plan to do fundraising for Kendi Mae's adoption through "From HIV to Home." We hope to do a full scale "walk-a-thon"--possibly with another adoptive family in our church! And we are going to open a "grant account" (for lack of a better word) with From HIV to Home as well--so that should someone feel led to make a tax deductible donation towards our adoption, they can. Kendi Mae will be one of the kids someone could "walk" for. But I also want to put a word out for a very good friend of mine who is in the same position as us when it comes to adoption funds--hurting! I don't think she is "out" in bloggy world either, but write to me if you want to walk for her future little one! ***

Have you all heard of Kids Walking Kids Home? This is a fantastic and unique way to bring awareness to the possibility of adopting an HIV+ child while at the same time supporting a family who is adopting an HIV+ child!

It's kind of like a modified "walk-a-thon." Basically, you contact KWKH and they will send you a fundraising kid complete with cute red bucket! The idea is that you get your kids involved in the process of helping an HIV+ child "come home" to America. The kids take donations for 2-3 weeks (donations are tax deductible). At the end of the donation collection time they make a statement in your community by simply taking a walk with their red bucket in hand. Maybe they receive more donations during their walk? But even if not, they are bringing awareness to the need for people to adopt HIV+ children here and around the globe.

May 7th is Wolrd AIDS Orphan Day. Wouldn't that be a great day to do this all across the country?! Kids Walking Kids Home is a program sponsored by From HIV to Home. The coolest thing (I think) is that if you know of a family adopting an HIV+ child, you can do the walk specifically for that family/child. The funds you raise are then given as a grant to the family who is trying to adopt that child!I think that this is something our family will try to take part in on May 7th. Such a great way to give a small blessing to another family, while at the same time bringing awareness to "positive" adoptions!

Anita