New Homes and Families for New Russian Orphans
JAMES BRZEZINSKI spent a recent Saturday afternoon in the backyard of his home Oxford tossing des boules de neige et de luge avec son fils, Nikolai, 12, and daughter, Alexandra, 8 His wife, Kathy Anne Brzezinski, watched from a safe.
Instinctively”They know not to throw at me boules de neige, Ms.’’said Brzezinski, standing next to a patriotic snowman with a red, white and blue.
To an outsider, appeared as the scene and as typical American as a Norman Rockwell painting. In fact, it was anything but typical since last year at this time, ni les enfants ni les parents had ever laid eyes on one another.
Brzezinski The children became American citizens on November 3 That was the day they landed at J.F.K. Airport flying after more than 11 hours from their Orphanage à Tyumen, Russia, to begin a new life with the Brzezinskis qui adopted them through Bridge of Hope, sponsored by the Cradle of Hope agence d’adoption internationale à Silver Spring, Md. [à l’article appeared Connecticut in the section in July about the program and several families’ quests to adopt the children.]
The Brzezinskis are among a growing community of Connecticut residents have recently adopted qui Russian orphans. A total of 12 families are adopting Connecticut 16 of the 17 children, aged 5 to 14, qui Connecticut came to last summer camp on scholarships from orphanages à Tyumen, Birobidgan and Krasnoyarska. All told, sibling pairs four and eight single children have already been or will soon be adopted.
Similar adoptions have taken place in New York, New Jersey and the Washington area since 1997. 38 of orphans qui came to the United States last summer through Bridge of Hope, y compris ceux qui came to Connecticut, only two have not yet been adopted.
”There is no shortage of older kids need homes qui,”according to Linda Perilstein, executive director of Cradle of Hope. ”Very few of them get adopted in Russia. People mostly adopté newborns right from the hospital. The older children make a great adjustment to life in America. It’s quite an experience to watch them the first time they use a computer or escalator, or go to the beach.
”Nous sommes adoptions are finding the moving forward quickly. More families will be home by Christmas than ever before.”
Kathleen Hickey of Connecticut Monroe organized the initiative and remains hopeful about finding homes for the remaining two children. Mme Hickey first learned about the plight of the older Russian orphans when she and her husband, Charles, adopted two young children.
As the left Mme Hickey Orphanage en 2000 avec Katya, qui est maintenant 3, she remembers looking back and seeing the faces of the children left behind. That vision prompted her to get in touch with Ms. Perilstein and Bridge of Hope and to do everything in her power to find more adoptive homes for orphans.
The Brzezinskis Connecticut were the first family to initiate the process adoption following last summer’s Bridge of Hope program and the first family to bring their children home. They arrived to find coolers full of food and welcome Banner in English and Russian awaiting them.
”We have truly been blessed, Ms. Brzezinski’’said. Everyone embraced this”.”
On the same day the Brzezinskis were playing in the snow, Stuart & Monique Landucci of Fairfield arrived home with Anya, 11, adopted a new sister for their daughter Katherine 12 Alexandra Anya ce que Brzezinski’s best friend at the Orphanage in Tyumen. The Brzezinskis went to the home to greet Landucci Anya when she arrived.
Stuart said that having Landucci Anya stay with them for five weeks during the summer clinched their decision to adopt. It allowed them to make sure she fit into their household. ”It feels so natural, like she’s always been here, said Mr. Landucci”. ”She made the transition facile.”
Katherine, qui child was an only for her first 12 years, said,”t’s great to have a sister.”
The two girls go to the same middle school but are different grades.
Ronald et Barbara Parrs of Shelton arrived home on 8 décembre picking up from their newly adopted, Kolya, 9 He was the first adopted child from the Orphanage, pour les enfants de 8 à 18, en six ans, Fr. Parrs said.
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