‘Mile for a Child’ walk in campaign to find Blackburn adopters (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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‘Mile for a Child’ walk in campaign to find Blackburn adopters
2:38pm Thursday 16th August 2012 in Blackburn
CHARITY workers are set to embark on a 65-mile walk to help recruit more adopters.
The five-day ‘Mile for a Child’ charity walk launches at 10.30am on Monday at Blackburn Cathedral, where a team from Adoption Matters Northwest (AMNW) will walk the Leeds Liverpool canal, as well of part of the Shropshire Union canal, from Blackburn to Chester.
The Bishop of Blackburn will be in attendance at the cathedral to show his support and see the walkers off as they start their journey, which is designed to help recruit a record number of adopters by highlighting the rise in the number of children waiting to be adopted across the region.
The agency’s chief executive, Norman Goodwin, is inviting local people to come along to the cathedral to meet representatives from the Blackburn agency, especially those whose lives have been touched by adoption, and show their support.
He said: “We are very excited for this walk as it holds such huge significance. Last year we experienced a record number of placements, but there are still hundreds of children in the North West who have not found a permanent home.
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8:01pm Fri 17 Aug 12
woolywords says...
However, these Mother Heroines are not recognised within the UK for their gifts of house, home and love to complete strangers children. Many of them having dozens of children over the years.
When I was little, our neighbours were both foster carers and adopters of many. For over 30 years that couple, who were childless themselves, gave a home to lots and lots of kids and never got recognised in any awards ceremony.
At her funeral, her husband was to give the eulogy but all he could say was, 'she would be so proud to see so many clean and bright shiny faces here..' The tune, all things bright and beautiful still reminds me of being a little boy, it's something she used to sing while peeling a bucketful of spuds for tea. A tune that was sung by hundreds of her children that day of her funeral..
God bless the women that open their hearts to children.
12:27pm Tue 21 Aug 12
norah bhatty says...
People who foster or adopt are in a league of their own, because it is not something everyone could do.
It is very sad when a child's mother/father are no longer able to cope, because that child will be confused when placed in a home with strangers.
Huge credit to the people who spend hours and hours working with these children, their efforts are second to none. Without them, where would some children end up?