Sad news today..

Varney was examined by Dr. Bernard in Liberia and he said that Varney is too far gone neurologically to be helped. They said they can give him medicine to make him more comfortable but that eventually he would be more of a vegetable state as he has hydrocelphalus so bad. Had they been able to treat him sooner.... well he could have been helped. Keep little Varney in your prayers and his momma who loves him so much.

Varney

This is Varney and his mama. Varney has hydrocephalus. He is in much need of a shunt and urgent medical care. Varney was brought to our attention by the ministry of health and social welfare of Liberia. They asked us to become involved and see if we could obtain a medical visa for him. We said yes we would get involved. Through a few connections we discovered that Dr. Sherman who works at Firestone hospital puts shunts in for children. We were pleasantly surprised. So we contacted him and he immediately said yes to seeing Varney. He said that Dr. Bernard (president of Liberia's son) will be in Liberia the next few weeks and he would be working closely with him and Varney would be one of their cases. What amazing news. And what good timing. God works out things like this in his time. Please keep Varney in prayer as he under gos surgery.

Nye has a medical visa!

This is Nye- he has hydrocephalus and needs a shunt put in his head. We along with a few other organizations have worked diligently for 5 months to advocate and obtain him a medical visa so that he could come here for free medical care. Apparently another child was taken out of country for medical care and not returned and so that along with the controversy over adoptions caused the ministry of health and of justice to cautiously allow him to go. I met Nye in October of last year while in Liberia and he has slowly gotten sicker. It is great news (thank-you for the prayers for him) that he will receive the much needed help he deserves. Nye will return back to his foster mom who loves him dearly after he is better. We expect he will be in the states 4-6 months. Helping children with medical visa's is part of what Global Orphan Outreach does with their medical outreach project.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

where did Global Orphan Outreach begin....

This is one of the many families Global Orphan Outreach assisted with adoption grants.



Global Orphan Outreach started with a vision to assist adoptive families with adoption grant writing and the proceeds to benefit starting a special needs orphanage. We were able to help many families who have adopted children into their forever families. However it took countless hours to grant write thus stretching the funds to... well... not much. So we posted all the info on our website and made ourselves available to assist them with the writing. Here are some more of the happy families who benefited from Global's help. We are honored to be a part of this process for them.





Thank you so much for applying for all the grants for us! We appreciated your service and it was WELL worth it. We are waiting to hear from a couple grants yet, and then I will complete the survey and email it to you. As of now, we've been awarded 2 grants: OATH for $100 and Katelyn's Fund for $3000.

1. We're you awarded grant funds and if so; how much? Who did you receive those grants from and what were the awards from each one? $500 from OATH

2. Did you feel G.O.O. did a good job in presenting to you the completed grant work for your signatures and was it in a timely manner? Did we meet your expectations? I did not actually see the applications as we were out of country for the adoption , but it was done in a timely manner.

3. Were you pleased with the communication between you and G.O.O.? yes

4. Would you recommend G.O.O. to others? Yes, it was a good service.

Hi everyone,

We wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know what a great job Donna and Jeanette are doing with Global Orphan Outreach. My husband and I have been so impressed with them. Once we got all our paperwork together and sent it off they quickly complied all our information and sent us a packet with 12 grant applications that were completely filled out and just needed our signature or initials. We were so amazed at how easy they had made it for us. They had a list with all the grants itemized and exactly what we needed to do with each one. We had sent off for one grant on our own (through Shaohannah's Hope) but it was so much easier to do it through Global Orphan Outreach. You do the paperwork once and they multiply it many times over for you and match you with as many grants applications as they can. We did not even know that many of these organizations even existed. I know we are all sick of paperwork and we personally did not feel like doing more paperwork so this was such a HUGE help! It is completely worth the application fee. You will be blown away with how efficient they are and how much work they put into it. Please do not hesitate to do this. With 12 grant applications out there I am confident that you will at the very least make back the small application fee. We have already received $2,000 from Shaohannah's Hope which is one of the organizations that they will help you apply with. Please feel fully confident in Global Orphan Outreach. They are doing a great job! I hope I don't sound like an infomercial but this has been such a blessing to us such a huge help.

We're you awarded grant funds and if so; how much? Who did you receive those grants from and what were the awards from each one? Recently received notification from Shohannah’s Hope that we will be receiving a $3000 grant! Yeahh!!!

Did you feel G.O.O. did a good job in presenting to you the completed grant work for your signatures and was it in a timely manner? Did we meet your expectations? Yes to all of the above



Were you pleased with the communication between you and G.O.O.? Yes



Would you recommend G.O.O. to others? Yes





Do you have any suggestions or comments? None, but thank you for the service you offer! If we had not learned of GOO and had you there to do the paperwork, we would not have applied to Shohannah’s Hope or anyone else . After going thru all the paperwork for an international adoption, we were maxed out on our time and energy to sift thru more paperwork. We appreciated your reasonable cost to do the work for us. Your fees are such that even if we would not have received a grant, we would not be frustrated that we had spent a HUGE some of money for nothing.

Global Orphan Outreach is such a blessing for adoptive families! With very few hours on my part and MANY on theirs, we now have applications in to about 14 organizations that give adoption grants. I had already discovered one of these on my own and another had been recommended by a friend who is adopting. But to be able to apply to so many more only increases our chances of getting a grant from someone! I'm sure I never would have been able to find most of these. Global Orphan Outreach completed the applications and wrote cover letters with information we had given them, and these were all very professional and well-done. The facts and information they gave were 100% accurate and error-free. When they had completed all the forms they mailed them back to us, and I found it very easy to follow their detailed instructions; signing where indicated, including a few other items, and slipping into the envelopes that were already addressed. Now we're waiting to see what God chooses to do with those applications: as adoptive parents we are becoming very accustomed to waiting! I highly recommend Global Orphan Outreach for any adoptive families who need help financing their adoptions and don't have the experience or time to identify grant organizations themselves and assemble successful application packets. Thank you, Global Orphan Outreach!

** I used Global Orphan Outreach to help in finding grants and though I was hesitant in that I wasn’t sure I could afford to put anymore into our adoption, I must say it was well worth the fee. GOO prepared all of applications after taking in our information and sent them to us to sign and send off. The packet was so well organized, making it clear where we needed to sign and what we needed to do for each application. I sent them off and while I am still waiting to hear from some, I received two large grants that covered nearly half of our adoption. Because we accepted referrals for two medically needy children, you can imagine the medical bills that are starting to pour in. These grants for our adoption are taking quite a burden off us to be able to pay our deductibles for the medical insurance.

I would highly recommend GOO to help in finding grants for adoptive families.

In Him,

Tama

**Thank you for all of your hard work on our grants. I was so impressed by the amount of detail and order of all the grants. I could not have worded things as eloquently as you did for us. We have received two generous grants so far and we’re certain your help made a huge difference. We would highly recommend Global Orphan Outreach!

Stephanie