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Dear MP

I am writing to you regarding the recent bankruptcy announcement of Imagine Adoption, based in Cambridge, Ontario. This agency was one of only two that is currently licensed to complete adoptions in the country of Ethiopia. Many families from all over Canada (once approved by a provincial adoption agency) have become clients of Imagine Adoption. It has been reported that there are over 400 families that are directly affected by this tragedy.

In the long process to adopt, these families have invested both emotionally and financially in order for Imagine to fulfill not only a legal contract, but their dreams to complete their family. It is imperative that the contract be fulfilled and that these families may bring home their long awaited children from Ethiopia, whether they have received a child referral already or not.

This has been an already very long journey for most of these families. They did everything by the book. They trusted Imagine and the government who licensed them. I am asking that the government now take action to support all the families affected.

I am writing to you to ask for your help; to immediately determine a solution to facilitate and complete all of Imagine Adoption's active files affected by this bankruptcy.

It is imperative that the federal government take an active role in ensuring the well-being of the many hundreds of children and Canadian families who have found themselves completely at a loss in this situation.

We trust that swift government action will accompany the bankruptcy announcement of Kids Link/Imagine Adoption and we await your timely response to this letter.

Sincerely,

Families of Imagine Adoption (FIA)

Families of Imagine Adoption
Dear friends and family,

Below is a letter that was written by a waiting adoptive mom. It is a form letter that can be cut and pasted to your blogs or websites, if you so wish. Please read it and join the cause:

Dear,

Over 400 Canadian families have had their dreams of adopting a child internationally shattered. Imagine Adoption, a Canadian adoption agency that facilitates international adoptions declared bankruptcy on July 14, 2010. http://www.bdo.ca/extranets/imagineadoption/index.cfm

The families that have been impacted by the bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption have started a petition and are fundraising to demand that the government take action to ensure that every family have the opportunity to complete their adoption and bring their children home.

As a supporter of international adoption, we need your help to spread the word. Please post a link to our blog on your website and send it to all of your contacts. Many voices are stronger than one.

Here is the link to the new blog that our families have created: Families of Imagine Adoption: http://unitedfamiliesofimagine.blogspot.com/

You can find the link to the petition and opportunity to donate in the right hand column of the blog

Our hopes of a family are greatly threatened by this turn of events, not to mention the significant financial investment in the adoption process. Many of us were on the verge of being matched with a child at the time of Imagine Adoption's closure.

For many of us, starting another adoption process is financially and emotionally impossible. Signing on with an adoption agency is much like discovering you are pregnant - from that point on you are a parent, expecting and planning for the arrival of your child (children). We have already endured significant emotional and financial hardship dealing with infertility or similar issues. For others, the loss of time spent in the Imagine process means some families are now too old to become adoptive parents. Their dreams of becoming a family have been crushed by the irresponsible mismanagement of this adoption Agency. We do not deserve this.

We believe it is the responsibility of the government, and agency acting on Imagine Adoption's behalf during this time, to do everything in their power to ensure that the adoptions of already contracted families are able to continue.

Thank for your support,

http://unitedfamiliesofimagine.blogspot.com/

The Families of Imagine Adoption have come together and created a blog.

Please visit this blog for all information pertaining to the Imagine Adoption Bankruptcy.

Pass this blog on to everyone you know! Post it on facebook, use it as a signature on your email. We are making a difference!

THANK YOU!


http://unitedfamiliesofimagine.blogspot.com/

Agency folds, puts couple's adoption plans on hold

Agency folds, puts couple's adoption plans on hold

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PLEASE sign this peition

Dear friends and family,

Please help us proceed with our adoption plans by signing the petition below (copy and paste the link into your browser). You can send it on to your friends and family after you have signed right from the address below.


http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveOurDreamofAdoptingInternatio/index.html

thank you, your support is appreciated.

There are no words to describe our feelings today.

Imagine adoption, the agency we were using for our adoption has declared bankruptcy. We are in utter disbelief as there was absolutely no warning.
I cannot express our grief, other than that we are desperately looking for hope and answers with our local agency.

I am doing all I can and praying that a miracle will happen for us and the children who were supposed to become ours.

It took all day for me to finally sit down and write this note because I am just stunned and sad and can't believe this is happening. I really don't have a lot else that I want to say at the moment other than that our only concern is how we can continue on this adoption journey.

We are just so sad and praying desperately for all those families who have already received their referrals and for all of the children in the transition home in Ethiopia who are in left in limbo.

For more information, here are some news links regarding this situation.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090714/adoption_bankrupt_090714/20090714?hub=TopStories

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/07/14/10133831.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/adoption-agencys-bankruptcy-devastates-families/article1217223/

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/07/14/imagine-adoption-bankrupt-ethiopia-calgary.html