Africa

Sunrise has made four trips to Africa over the past few years in order to explore the possibility of adoptions, to meet with government officials and to visit orphanages. One in five children in Africa today is an orphan.

It is a powerful experience, to say the least. While formal adoption has been a foreign concept in Africa in the past, some countries are looking to international adoption to find permanent families for orphaned and vulnerable children. We are proceeding cautiously.

As a result of our efforts, we are currently completing adoptions from several countries in Africa.  The need for appropriate families for the orphaned children of Africa is virtually unlimited.

We have also established a project to assist children and families affected by AIDS and to help keep families together (for information read Cluster Project).