embassy

I've been spending most of my time since Monday at the Embassy. Heartline's orphanage, Maranatha Children's Home, has 18 kids that we are trying to get home through humanitarian parole. These are orphans that already have adoptive families and we are trying to get them home to these families. The earthquake will only make life in haiti harder. More people without homes or any possessions. More people without food and water. More orphans. There is no reason to keep orphans here that have families waiting for them in the United States. Both the US and Haitian government seem to be working with us for humanitarian parole and several orphans have already been able to go home. Watch the video on that link, it is so awesome to see these kids united FOREVER with their families. A dad that is adopting from Heartline, Tim, came into Haiti on Sunday to help work on getting our kids out. He and I have been to the Embassy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Yesterday was our longest day there. We seemed to go in a lot of circles and even take steps backwards. We had originally been working with a very helpful lady, but she had to leave for the day and we got passed off to someone a little more clueless. We had already given them the lists and emails that they needed. Now they were acting like they didn't know who we were or what we wanted. We finally get to talk to someone, then wait for hours. The same guy would then come up and act like he didn't remember talking to us 2 hours ago! We were able to help them gather all the info that we had already given them and they said they would start working on putting together the travel documents. Tim is back at the Embassy today with another adoptive dad that just flew into Haiti yesterday. Once we have the travel docs in hand (hopefully TODAY) we will take all the kids to the Embassy and wait for a flight out.