Natchitoches , Louisiana

A Child’s Desire, Inc. is committed to easing the financial burden of the adoption and post-adoption processes through fundraising efforts. By generating adoption grants, it will underwrite adoption agencies' fees or adoption facilitators' fees. A Child's Desire, Inc. is a non-profit organization {501(c)(3)} in the truest sense of the word. It is volunteer-based. It has neither salaried employees nor board members. Overhead is kept to a minimum, allowing resources to be used for its primary purpose, facilitating adoptions through financial support. The average adoption cost $18,000 to $20,000 domestically and $20,000 internationally. These costs include among others court fees, immigration fees, social worker fees, fingerprinting, bureaucratic fees related to the dossier, medical bills, travel, and translation. For many these high fees mean taking a second mortgage or running up credit card bills, taking away from the resources that could be spent on the child once it is home. These costs are enough to deter some prospective families from undertaking adoption. Our goal is to help these families with the expenses of adoption, so that more children can find homes faster. [view full description]