The stress of adoption is unlike anything I have ever experienced!! Yesterday while up in Mass. I found out that the president of Guatemala had plans to issue a moratorium on 10/1/06 to stop all international adoptions!! This was apparently planned out and signed by the president and/or his wife and was to be issued as an Executive Order therefore bypassing the Guatemalan Congress. I immediatley began contacting everyone that I know and was able to get some info from our agency late yesterday afternoon. Our contact there informed us that the situation in Guatemala was changing minute by minute and that she had no concrete information. She urged us to contact the State Department and our senators so that pressure could be put on the Guatemalan government to stop the moratorium. I contacted the State Department and was put in touch with the gentleman who oversees the International Adoption Unit for Guatemala. He tried to assure us that he had spent the day talking with heads of government in Guat. and that there was no plan at this time to stop international adoption, although this could happen in the future.
I ask everyone who reads this to please say a prayer for all of the children who are waiting to come home to their families, that the government officials in Guatemala realize that the children need their loving homes as soon as possible.
Keep Joey in your prayers!
Lee Anne
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