A world away, foster parent hold out hope
Fates unknown for medically fragile kids restored in U.S., returned to Haiti
name: Xu Jiawei (Joyce)
article title: A world away, foster parent hold out hope
unknown for medically fragile kids restored in U.S., returned to Haiti
source of article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34883851/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
name of article writer: Linda Dahlstrom
date of article: Jan. 16, 2010
Summary:
This article talks about the feeling of an adoptive mother’s feeling after the Haiti massive earthquake. Sarah Gammons-Reese has a blended family with five biological children and nine adopted. She has also nurtured four children from Haiti so far with three of them having been sent back. Sarah Gammons-Reese has formed a formed a group called The Medical Advocacy Team which helps to arrange care for medically fragile children from Haiti who are almost impossible to survive if staying there. The children stay in the foster families in the U.S. and receive medical care until they recuperate and would be sent back to their own families. Sarah Gammons-Reese is one of those foster families who love deeply these kids and letting them go at last. However, the magnitude-7 earthquake in Haiti in 12th shocked her and made her in a terrified state searching her familiar faces from the news including her newly adopted child who hasn’t been brought home. Looking back the process of taking children away to undergo medical treatment and sending them back then their being in a huge earthquake, Sarah Gammons-Reese is doubting the meaning of it.
Comment: This piece of news shows us another group of people caring the refugees in Haiti after its earthquake – the adoptive parents. They are also part of the victims. In the U.S., another part of the world, there are despairing parents looking for their adopted children in Haiti. It bring me not only impression but also inspiration. They have showed so much care and feeling to those people who live far away with nothing related that somehow the distance between the first world countries and the third world countries. Especially under the financial crisis, people should be pulled out of the world of money but give their hearts to those lives in danger.
18 Jan 2010
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I do agree that it is very kind of the parents to adopt the Haitian children who need medical treatment and still care about them so much even after they have returned. Although Sarah Gammons-Reese was terrified by the earthquake, I do not think the meaning of sending the children back should be doubted, as mentioned. Haiti is not such a prosperous country that it cannot provide the medically fragile children with advanced treatment, but it is the country where they were born and bought up, and where they belong. Thus, they should return to their own families once they are cured. We pity that they experienced the unpredictable disaster that shocks the whole world, but The Medical Advocacy Team is not to blame for sending the children back.
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Geoffrey said:
ReplyDeleteIn the Haitian earthquake, there are a lot of people who are suffering a lot. I do agree that the parents who have adopted Haitian children is a special group. And writing about their feelings is a new angle to look at the earthquake. Haitian is not such a big and properious country. So i think what America has done sets a good example to the whole world. Rich countries should carry a responsiblity to help the poor countries to make the whole world a better place to live. While, when arguing about whether the parents should send the children back to their own country, my answer is "Yes".Poor counries need such brilliant mind and people who recieved the education to develop the country. What is more, the children are not the people who escape from their motherland,they are just sent to America to recieve medical treatment. So my words to them is "Go back to Haitian and make a contribution to the country."