Heart Adopton – the most important information and guidelines

What exactly is Heart Adoption in Have a Future’s Foundation?

The differences between the North Global Countries (the so-called West) and the South Global Countries (Africa, Asia, South America) are hard to imagine. Africa, Asia, and South America are no longer utterly backward abstraction without the world’s contact. These are the places where many companies currently locate their headquarters and principally invest. Also, many highly educated managers coming from different parts of the world settle down there. “Abyss” begins a few kilometers away on the outskirts of cities, several hundred kilometers apart. We help these children, coming from these towns’ suburbs, within the framework of our Heart Adoption program.

Heart Adoption in practice:

We establish cooperation with the institution – we authenticate, select scholars, and calculate a given group’s financial needs.
We are seeking Adoptive Parents for the pupils. The Parent can choose the preferred age of a child, place of residence, gender. After that, we propose the Charge. Signing Adoption’s Declaration and the first bank transfer to the child formally completes the initial process. There are situations where the school begins before a sufficient number of parents have applied. Or else, we put a child up for an Adoption during the school year whose Parent has resigned from further assistance. In this case, the child’s balance doesn’t begin with 0(it may have underpayments).
Now it’s time for the Child and the Parent in the program – we send an update of the pupil’s information and materials from a facility(e.g., photo, certificate, letter, drawing) at least once a year. It’s possible to contact the child by mail through the Foundation.
When the child finishes education, he becomes independent(It sometimes happens that there is a contact’s loss with the child and their family. For example, the family moves to another place for work or transfers the children’s care to the extended family).
Usually, in life, waiting for a child lasts nine months. It is not so long at us. However, we are asking for patience when waiting for our reply e-mail. When we do not reply within two to three weeks, we request another e-mail from you or communicate with the Foundation by telephone. In this way, you can confirm if we have received the message. The volunteers run the Foundation, and beyond this, they have professional duties and their families.

What we don’t do:

We do not relieve the facilities and biological parents of everything – the aid doesn’t mean to walk away from their entire duties.
We do not mediate in natural Adoption and don’t help in bringing the children from Africa to Poland. It is against what we believe. African countries have excellent high schools and universities. They provide the proper level of study to receive an education and aid the local community. We want Africa’s inhabitants to become our partners of the projects, not only their beneficiaries.
We do not allow the direct Parent’s contact with the institution and especially with the children. The Foundation is responsible for communicating with the parents and running the program(it is for organizational reasons). The persons who work for the facilities handle the children’s care and contact them on the spot. They almost always realize the program, in addition to their enormity of daily routines and duties.

ADOPTION = EDUCATION

What does USD 1 – USD 3 daily charge intend to(USD 340 – USD 700 annually):

The Schools(in Cameroon, Kenya, Bolivia, Uganda, Tanzania, Nepal) we cooperate with are officially payable or have so-called “hidden tuition.” In other words, it is a fee you have to pay, although it formally doesn’t exist on any paper.
A child needs a uniform, books, school supplies, shoes, and even obligatory socks to participate in classes. Without those things, a pupil often will not be allowed to enter school.
Sometimes we send talented children to boarding schools – mostly orphans or high school students. Most pupils attend public high schools and vocational ones. Some of them go to boarding school in case there isn’t any high school nearby. It is in the situation where the child passed the exam to the next level of education and augurs well for the future. Public schools have a deficient standard. Classrooms happen to be overcrowded, and teachers are more often absent.
We provide meals, milk, and medicines for given facilities. We know that a hungry and sick child will learn nothing.
Note: In Kenya, we collaborate with the foster family running the orphanage for many children. We must emphasize that some of the children are disabled, which increases the school costs regarding transport, going to a special school, maintenance, treatment, and feeding. You can read about this unique place as for African conditions here (link).
Different countries and various levels of education are also other costs. University students have the highest tuition. Because of this, we are trying to find a few Parents for them. The unit burden is not too high then.

You don’t have to become a permanent Parent. You may be Aunt, Grandmother, Uncle or Grandfather. Or else, you can support a child with the class or friends’ group (details here).

Before you decide on permanent Heart Adoption:

Read all the information carefully included on this website and the subpages concerning the institutions.
Think it over – an adoption means responsibility for another human being and a financial obligation.
also, check our bookmarks: “They are waiting for your help” and “Student’s Adoption.”

The institutions we cooperate with you find below:

Africa

Cameroon Yaounde and Garoua Boulai;

Tanzania Namanga;

Kenya Nakuru and Ukunda;

Uganda Jinja;

Angola Luanda

Asia

Nepal Pharping, Dadhikel, and Dakshinkali

South America

Bolivia

Europe:

Poland and Russia – Ulan-Ude

The most important questions and answers related to Heart Adoption at “Have a Future” Foundation:

What is Heart Adoption? (Adoption at a distance)
Who can become an Adoptive Parent? How to become one?
Can I adopt more than one child? Can I adopt siblings?
Can I choose a child?
How long do I have to wait for the first data about the child? How does a child’s documentation look?
What is Adoption’s cost?
Do I need to pay yearly in advance? Can I pay monthly?
In what currency should I make a payment? How to calculate the premium?
What is the account number for payments?
How can I make the first payment? How to name fees?
What does a child’s contact resemble?
Can the adopted child be changed to another one in the course of the program?
Can I send a package or a letter to a child? What can I put in an envelope or what I shouldn’t?
To what address do we send letters and packages?
How long do I have to pay? What if my financial situation becomes worse, and I am no longer able to participate in the program?
How does the child receive money? Does the child receive money in cash? What about the program’s costs?
Can I pay less than the amount of the yearly fee?
What happens if I pay more than the required fee? What happens with the surplus?
Can I deposit money into, e.g., birthday present for the child or into Christmas?
Are the institutions described on the website here the only ones that participate in the Heart Adoption program? How can I be sure that we spend money well, and why are the adoption fees so different?

1. What is Heart Adoption? (Adoption at a distance)

First of all, it is a program allowing the children to go to school and get an education. In most cases, it provides food for them. Within a program framework, you receive a specific child under your care and support their school education. You can eventually provide them meals because a hungry child cannot learn anything. The children are orphans, half-orphans, or come from low-income families. It depends on the country and a particular missionary outpost.

2. Who can become an Adoptive Parent? How to become one?

Each individual who consciously takes responsibility for another human being. And also a person who is willing to act for the good of the children. You must know that Heart Adoption is mainly a financial obligation.

In the case of adopting a child by a school, group of people, or company, we assign the Adoption to a person representing the particular group. This individual stays in contact with us and pass on information to others. A minor also can become a caregiver provided that one of their parents will be the person responsible for the contact with us. However, the Foundation must obtain confirmation of their financial commitment made.

If you want to help a child, please read the information on this website carefully. Then familiarize yourself with the specifics of each institution. You will find them listed on the pink tiles at the top of the page. Look at the subpage “They are waiting for help” and take a Charge according to the gender, age, and country.

After reading the entire website, write to us:

Who are you?
Why do you want to be an Adoptive Parent?
Who do you want to take care of, and how long?
What are your financial capacity and planned payments (one-time, in installments, etc.)?

Send an e-mail to: adopcja@majaprzyszlosc.org.pl. The same e-mail for Bolivia and Angola institutions. In response, you receive the child’s photo, initial information, Parent’s declaration, making a financial commitment. When you fill in the statement, please send it back by snail mail. Then you receive the form containing full information about the child from us. Over time, we send back the acquired drawings, photos, update information, and certificates. We will contact you at least once a year.

3. Can I adopt more than one child? Can I adopt siblings?

You can adopt more than one child. It all depends on the Parent’s financial capacity. We can also get the children’s siblings admitted to our program, especially from low-income families. The larger families or, e.g., a few classes within one school, can support siblings if you wish. You can adopt one child and, e.g., support another one just by covering the child’s arrears, after nonpaying Parent. Thanks to this, the child has a clean slate and a chance for a new Parent on permanent. We provide the children with the arrears by e-mail: adopcja@majaprzyszlosc.org.pl

4. Can I choose a child?

In response to your requests to make conscious decisions, apart from the child’s name and address, we also give you two additional details about the child. You can make the decision based on this data. The first piece of information is the child’s gender. It’s easier for a person who has a daughter to send clothes for an adopted girl as a gift. Or else, someone with three sons would like to support a girl for a change. The second piece of information is age/class because the level of fees depends mainly on this data. This statement also allows us to estimate the duration of the adoption program. You cannot select a child by photos. Adoption doesn’t work as a shop. We try to protect the child’s image as much as possible.

5. How long do I have to wait for the first data about the child? How does a child’s documentation look?

Each of the children has prepared photos, a profile(a form with information about them), also often certificates when the child attends school. You can adopt children up to date without long waiting for taking a child under your care. However, you can sometimes await contact with us between two to five weeks. We get a handle on e-mails from new people and current Parents(even several dozen daily). Information about the children who need immediate help from given countries, you can find in the bookmark, “They are waiting for help.” When choosing a child from the list located on the website mentioned above, please send us an e-mail with information about the child’s name, age/class, and the country. In the case of granting the children by us, we send a Charge’s proposal in the return e-mail.

In our first e-mail, you will receive our initial proposal, tailored to your inquiry, and declaration of taking a given Charge under your care. After sending back the statement and making the first payment, we mail what we have about the child. These are usually two or more photos(figure and face), a form with the information, their families, and their surroundings(profile).

If a child has a changed Parent and is with us longer, there are also certificates and letters from previous years (scans).

6. What is the Adoption’s cost?

It is only a few PLN(students, some orphans, and disabled children are the exception). The adoption costs are different depending on the institution. The payment could be in PLN or foreign currency to a unique account number(EUR, USD, GBP). After receiving the child’s form within 30 days, you have to pay 25% of the annual charge or the first monthly installment unless you choose a monthly payment method. You charge a full year fee when it comes to new children regardless of the month in which you join the program(not applicable to every child).

The exact costs of the Heart Adoption program for Institutions:

Bolivia Fees for Oruro facility

USD 450 (xx USD x 12 months) – for one calendar year

Angola Fees for Luanda facility

USD 450 (xx USD x 12 months) – for one calendar year

Nepal Fees for Pharping facility

USD 340 (xx USD x 12 months) – for one calendar year

Training for the goldsmith/engraver profession and the “music” program – fees agreed individually with the Parent according to the needs of a Student.

Kenya Fees for Nakuru facility(orphanage + the disabled children)

Kindergarten and Elementary School USD 700(USD 59 x 12 months) for one calendar year

Construction of an Orphanage in Nakuru – payments in any amount

Kenya Fees for Ukunda facility

USD 360-550 (xx USD x 12 months) – for one calendar year

Students and private schools – fees agreed individually with the Parent according to the needs of a Student.

Cameroon Fees for Yaounde and Garoua Boulai

EUR 200 (16.70 x 12 months), high school EUR 250 (21 x 12 months) – for one calendar year

Students and private schools – fees agreed individually with the Parent according to the needs of a Student.

Important! We often accept children from the middle of the year, or they have already joined the program before we get written information about them to pass them on to potential parents. It means that it takes some time from accepting children to finding them the Parent. This period you should settle financially so the child couldn’t have a debt. We can not find dozens of Parents suddenly when we receive a group of children under our care. That’s why there is a time shift regarding backward payments. From the beginning, we help everyone equally, albeit not all caregivers make payments on time. We transfer funds for the mission independently.

It happens so, for it is beyond explaining to five years old baby that he can’t eat today (although their companion can eat) only because their caregiver hasn’t fulfilled their financial obligation for the last quarter.

It is inhumane. Some Parents have forgotten about their financial commitments after receiving the child’s profile and photos. They haven’t transferred any payment and haven’t informed us about it to find a solution or a foster Parent. We comprehend that a Parent can struggle with random life situations and various troubles. However, without any information from you, we can’t react and help you. And the child is waiting. However, we also sometimes fail – there is a lack of contact and information about the individual child for a longer time more than we assumed. The missionary doesn’t contact us – disappointed Parent suspends payments or resigns from the Adoption, for he has counted on more messages than he receives now. We don’t always have complete control over it, how much information we get about our particular Charge, and how rich it is. These “recovered” children have a negative balance.

We will ask the persons who can support forgotten children, starting their adoptions in 2013 or 2014, for supplementing the incurred adoption costs and losses even by their predecessor. The amount is usually equal to several PLN more monthly than the current fee. We are sorry for any inconvenience, and at the same time, we are asking for understanding. Another solution isn’t possible because of the program’s specific and the security of financing children’s education. They shouldn’t pay for adult mistakes. Thank you!

7. Do I need to pay yearly in advance? Can I pay monthly?

You have to pay 25% of the annual fee or the installment for the first month within 30 days after you have received the child form. It is the easiest for us if the payment is paid yearly in advance and made within the first three months of a calendar year (January- March). It enables us to send the money to the mission as soon as possible. The missionary sister will dispose of it according to the needs. Thanks to this, we know that the Parent has remembered about the child and their commitment at the beginning of the year.

The annual payment isn’t always possible, so we accept the monthly fee(the premium per month), quarterly(three x the premium per month), or semi-annual(six x the premium per month). It is essential that when transferring the fund, give the period for which you make the payment, next to the child’s file number, first name and surname of the child, and the words “Heart Adoption” and “donation.”

We name the payments as mentioned below:

Heart Adoption, first name, and surname of the child, file number, period for which you make the amount – donation.

For example, Heart Adoption, John Doe, KYXX, quarterly – donation.

8. In what currency should I make a payment? How to calculate the premium?

You can pay in PLN(the equivalent of the payment) or foreign currency to a unique account number(EUR, USD, GBP). The amount of the deposit in PLN depends on the Euro selling rate (for Cameroon) or USD selling rate (for Tanzania) on a given day. Due to exchange rate changes and currency conversion of funds in the Foundation, please use the Foundation’s exchange rate table once a month. YOU CAN FIND THE CALCULATOR TO CALCULATE THE ANNUAL OR INSTALLMENT FEE HERE.

After becoming familiar with the table on the link, we multiply the fee by the selling rate and get the required payment.

The payment can differ slightly in annual accounts, as exchange rate fluctuations appear, which influence the total amount at the end of a calendar year.

9. What is the account number for payments?

You should transfer the money into the main Foundation’s account number(Alior Bank). The account number is on the Adoption’s declaration you signed. It is a PLN account. After receiving financial resources from you, the Foundation transfers your payment into the given mission outpost according to the applicable currency(EUR, USD).

Payments in foreign currency and coming from abroad, you should report by e-mail. The currency accounts and SWIFT of the bank are in the “Contact” bookmark. It isn’t vital which bank account you select from the list(EUR, USD, PLN). However, the more important is the transfer’s details, where you should include the child’s file number.

10. How can I make the first payment? How to name fees?

You have to pay 25% of the annual fee or the installment for the first month within 30 days after receiving the child form, photos, and file number. When you declare your intent of Adoption, we e-mail you the declaration of financial commitment. After this, you must send back to the Foundation via snail mail the statement. It is best to transfer any other fees until the end of March or September of a given year(25% deposit within 30 days does not apply to equal and regular monthly payments).

We name the payments as mentioned below:

Heart Adoption, first name, and surname of the child, file number, period for which you make the amount – donation.

For example, Heart Adoption, John Doe, KYXX, quarterly – donation.

11. What does a child’s contact resemble?

The contact with a child and missionary sisters is only available by the Foundation, except for sending letters to missions that you do directly.

You receive information about the child from the Foundation at least once a year. However, the main form of contact with a child is correspondence. You send the letters directly to the missionary outpost. The Foundation does not serve as an intermediary when it comes to sending messages from Poland. The mission outpost sends notes, drawings from the children, children photos, and forms in collective packages to the Foundation to reduce the costs. You receive them from us when they have reached the country, which takes from six weeks to three months. Sometimes packages travel even six to eight months because of sending them by economic mail (ship) instead of priority mail(airmail). More about letters and packages – below in points 13 and 14.

Some children write letters very rarely, and messages can travel for a long time, so the contact is mainly symbolic. However, do not get discouraged, and please do write to your child. It is the first letter in their life and communication with a different reality for many of them. The small children don’t write letters. They draw if the missionary sister has all the needed accessories for that. We write letters in Polish(missionary sisters are Poles and they translate them), in English (Tanzania) or French (Cameroon). You are likely to find people around you who can help you with the translation of your message. Alternatively, if necessary, please send the content of the letter to the Foundation by e-mail, we will try to help with the interpretation. We do not send in children’s letters any addresses, contact details, telephone numbers, or incentives to come to Europe. It is destroying the local community.

12. Can the adopted child be changed to another one in the course of the program?

Yes, it can. It is rare, but it happens. The program does not keep a family in one place. Sometimes a family leaves the hut they live in, day by day, and move to another site, and we lose contact with the child. No one consults the missionary sister about it. In such a situation, we encourage the Parent to adopt some other child with whom we have direct contact and is dear to us. The Parent often accepts the change. The money left on account of the previous child we give to the new one. However, you can leave the program if you don’t like such a change. We’ll try to inform you about the children leaving the program as soon as possible, but sometimes it takes a few weeks before the sister, e.g., when bringing gifts or paying a visit, notices that the dwellers abandoned the house.

13. Can I send a package or a letter to a child? What can I put in an envelope or what I shouldn’t?

First, we would like to point out that, according to information from missionary sisters, singling out your Charge by giving them gifts and packages, doesn’t favor their relations with relatives and companions. We are asking for sending only letters or bubble envelopes directly to Tanzania and Cameroon. There are many reasons for this request: high costs of receiving a package due to customs and transport, daily missionaries’ workload and their time constraints, also corruption in the post office.

Please write only the address of the facility and missionary’s name on your envelope when sending the letter. Then put your proper envelope with the Charge’s name inside. You can write in the language that a child knows(it could be French or English depending on the country) or Polish.

The missionaries will translate the message for the child and their family unless you contact us in advance to help you with the translation by our Foundation’s translators. While attaching the photo in the letter, we ask you for a neutral or green background – something which is not alien to a child. The addresses of the Institutions we provide below.

You need to be aware that sending a package by yourself, without prior informing the Foundation isn’t our obligation to pick it up. It is due to customs paid by missionary sisters. It means that your effort may go to waste. Without unnecessary difficulties, it is possible to prepare and send a package to the children through our volunteer Ania. She supports the sending of group packages according to the needs pointed out by the missionary sisters. She also knows the current children’s needs on the given missionary outposts and suggests to you what to send to them. The costs are lower when we send group packages, and we are sure that the bundles will go to their destination. For Christmas, we raise funds and buy gifts for all children. Please arrange your package’s content and the shipping charges with Ania and prepare the final list of things you want to include in the bundle. When you want to send a package to a child, please transfer the money previously agreed with Ania (according to the package’s weight) to the main Foundation’s bank account number: PL 65 2490 0005 0000 4520 4418 9818 with a note: “package + customs.” In some cases, she will point out the option of sending a package directly, e.g., in the case of a bubble envelope.

We sensitize you – the main goal of Adoption is the help with children’s education. The bond with a child is spontaneous, and please be careful about engendering their hope, e.g., for leaving Africa, etc. There is no way for a child to come to a Parent’s country. Some children have dreams(e.g., a bicycle), and expressing them in the letters may sometimes be confusing if this wasn’t your message’s intention. The Foundation doesn’t interfere with correspondence, and we won’t remove such records. We only signal the problem if it would occur. We do not send in children’s letters any addresses, contact details, telephone numbers, or incentives to come to Europe. It is destroying the local community.

We kindly ask you to put in a card with the given item lists of things you send in the package. It allows us to locate the bundle in case of a blurred address’s sender. You must remember a few things when considering items’ shipment in a bubble envelope or collective packages coordinated by Ania:

Postages are very high in Poland.
There is no 100% guarantee that the shipment will arrive (especially economic shipments).
There are no fixed fees for picking up a package on the spot. So, sometimes it is not profitable because of a subjective decision made by a customs officer.
We give duty drawback to our missionary sister only for bundles sent with the cooperation of our volunteer, Ania.
Instead of sending items, you can make a payment once a year for your Charge’s birthday present. Ania or the missionary sister will buy the gift and includes it in a collective package. In recent years, you can already purchase many products on-site at a reasonable price. The need to send a package, the joy of receiving it by the Charge, causes that many caregivers decide on this form of giving a gift. However, please be practical and consider the good of a child, Ania’s suggestions, when selecting the things for the particular package.

Contact regarding sending packages:

paczki@majaprzyszlosc.org.pl

What we don’t send:

Food with a short expiry date(at least six months from dispatch), mixtures based on milk, and combinations that use milk(try to look for varieties based on water). The missionary sister purchases the needed products on the spot. Many products which we know these children simply don’t eat.
From sweets – chocolate! – it draws rats and other pests into the content and doesn’t survive the journey. Besides, please consider that not only your child lives in the facility. Instead of buying one expensive wafer, it is better to buy a packet of lollipops or butterscotches to share with other children and siblings.
Medicines at your discretion – except for vitamin preparations for children(preferably dissolved in water)

What they value, and it is worth putting into a collective package approved by Ania?

Children will appreciate books in English or French (depending on the country) that are suitable for their age, inflatable balloons or balls (not inflated, to reduce the volume, but accompanied with a hand pump), small toys, notebooks, crayons, pencils, jigsaw puzzles, cards, coloring books, plasticine, modeling clay, colorful scarves, rubber bands and hair fasteners (for girls), clothes (from 9-10 years old rather long skirts and dresses covering the legs, girls do not wear pants), socks, shoes such as sneakers/flip-flops/trainers, underwear, T-shirts and panties, rainwear, mosquito nets, blankets, bedsheets, light pillows, soaps, washing liquids, toothbrushes, and toothpaste, combs, raincoats.

14. To what address do we send letters and packages?

The letter only has the facility’s address, the first and last name of the missionary sister, and the information that it is a mission/charity gift on the outside of the package.

We place any additional information (such as the child’s name) inside the envelope to avoid overestimated custom duties.

Letters and packages arranged with Ania or collective ones to Cameroon we send with a note “DON POUR LA MISSION” The message means “The Gift for the Mission.”

Please put inside a note with a list of things included in the package, detailed guidelines for whom you intend the bundle.

About the needs and addresses of each facility contact with Ania or the Adoption (two e-mails mentioned above)

15. How long do I have to pay? What if my financial situation becomes worse, and I am no longer able to participate in the program?

Heart Adoption is a long-term commitment, and if you make this commitment, you should think a few years ahead. It enables you to make friends with a child and give them some stabilization. However, this commitment is a moral obligation, not a liability. If you cease to help a child, you do not bear any legal consequences. But a sudden lack of help is a tragedy for a child because it means the necessity of leaving school and loss of hope for a better life. Thus, if you want to abandon the program, please, inform us in advance to have enough time to find another Parent for the child.

16. How does the child receive money? Does the child receive money in cash? What about the program’s costs?

In Cameroon, the adoption costs are EUR 200 and EUR 250, and they include a child’s education, school uniform, and school supplies. In Tanzania, the price of USD 300 also includes yearly breakfast costs. We don’t transfer money directly to the children or their parents, but the mission outpost provides the continuity of education and the food, depending on the institution. The Foundation gives the money in installments, according to the order of payment for a given purpose. Because both missionary outposts are new and have no financial security, the fee also includes help for the outposts connected with the adoption program’s operating costs. As you can read in the declaration: “12% of the charge covers the administrative costs. At the moment, both outposts begin the adoption program. That is why, except for the necessary expenses covering school supplies, purchase, and maintenance of office equipment, printing services, Internet site, the Foundation also obliges to cover the missionary outposts costs including the Internet, which is necessary to communicate with the Foundation and the Parents, paper, ink, and other expenses specified by missionary sisters and accepted after receiving cost calculations of the adoption program and banking costs (commission), postal charges, costs of searching for Parents, children pictures and other expenses connected with running the Heart Adoption program in Poland and missionary outposts. When the missionary outposts reach financial security, we will reduce the percentage of this amount.”

We intend all these funds solely and entirely to realize the Foundation’s goals in the field of the Heart Adoption program. All costs of the Foundation we present in the annual balance sheets and the activity report.

17. Can I pay less than the amount of the yearly fee?

Sometimes Parents pay less than the yearly fee. If the underpayment amount is a dozen or so PLN and the cases are not frequent, the Foundation can cover this underpayment. But it often means that these people cease to pay anyway. Thus, as we have written above, please inform us if the underpayment is not a result of underestimation or oversight, but a result of planned action and financial difficulties. Then we will be able to help you and the child in advance.

18. What happens if I pay more than the required fee? What happens with the surplus?

We give the money to the mission outpost, along with the excess amount.

Firstly, we cover the additional needs of a particular child and its family, siblings who do not participate in the program (if there are any). Next, we cover the needs of other children, paying for their school and food, especially those who do not have an adoptive parent or whose Parent has not paid the fee and could harm the child. We try not to favor any children. We don’t buy many other things not to make other children feel jealous or treated unfairly. Because some parents pay only the basic fee, and others can provide extra financial help.

19. Can I deposit money into, e.g., birthday present for the child or into Christmas?

There is such a possibility, but the deadline for such transfer is a month before the child’s occasion. The transfers of money for Christmas we will indicate at the proper time for a given year. Only then is there a chance that missionary sisters can buy the presents on time. Considering the information included in the previous point, we try to share the means equally and not favor any of the children. So, we usually authoritatively set the amount of money spent on small gifts (e.g., for a birthday gift: a blanket, a school bag or a set of clothes it is USD 20/EUR 15), or on a food package.

20. Are the institutions described on the website here the only ones that participate in the Heart Adoption program? How can I be sure that we spend money well, and why are the adoption fees so different?

We mostly base the Heart Adoption on trust. However, you have the addresses of the outposts, information about the missionary sisters. Children can send letters, and we try to document a package or a message and photograph it. We will try to send you copies of the school certificates as proof that the children attend the school (at the discretion of missionary sisters, she can send the first school certificates in 2013).

There are many missionary outposts in the world, at least several in each African country, and a lot of Congregations and institutions running such programs. Heart Adoption is a worldwide initiative. People organize such programs in places where children are left alone without any social assistance, hungry, and with no prospects for the future. If one person helps a child from a missionary outpost in Cameroon, it does not mean that the other person’s child from Cameroon comes from the same outpost.

Our obligation by law is that the money transferred to the facility we use in a manner consistent with its intended use and the intention of the contributors. We also try to document the expenses with photos. You can see every donation in the Foundation’s annual accounts.

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If you haven’t found the answer to your question in the above information or need some additional information, please e-mail us at: adopcja@majaprzyszlosc.org.pl / Usually, in life, waiting for a child lasts nine months. It is not so long at us. However, we are asking for patience when waiting for our reply e-mail. When we do not reply within two to three weeks, we request another e-mail from you or communicate with the Foundation by telephone. In this way, you can confirm if we have received the message.

We will try to help you and answer your questions as soon as possible.