What are your thoughts about adopting a Congolese child? Is it your way to affect the longterm change in one child's life?
A number of visitors to the Congo have asked me about adoption or have actually considered adoption. I think they felt compassion for the children. I think they wanted to change one child's life.
Adoption in Congo appears to be feasible. Here's what the US State Department advises perspective adoptive parents. Download intercountry_adoption_drc.pdf
Link: Intercountry Adoption Democratic Republic of the Congo.
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE (June 2006)
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