Joint Council on International Children's Services is a membership-based advocacy organization which advocates for every child's right to a safe, permanent, and loving family. Joint Council members include world renowned child advocacy organizations, orphan care organizations, adoption service providers, parent support groups, medical clinics, and professional service providers. Joint Council began its work thirty years ago as a grassroots professional organization that provided a forum for child welfare experts to share and exchange information, ideas, and their visions of Intercountry adoption and child welfare. Dillon International is a charter member of JCICS.
30-Day Challenge: The Basics
Everyday in November, as part of Joint Council’s National Adoption Month advocacy we’re asking you to take the 30-day Challenge to help improve the lives of children around the world.
Everyday will include three parts:
1) A story of a child who was lucky enough to find a family through adoption and is thriving to this day.
2) A story of a child who wasn’t/isn’t so lucky.
3) A task that everyone can do to help kids living outside family care. These tasks will take 5 – 15 minutes of your day and may include educating yourself and others about the needs of children, targeted asks to Members of Congress, or simply watching a video.
Stories and tasks will be posted on our blog everyday, as well as, throughout Joint Council’s social media forums, including Facebook, YouTube (if it’s a video) and Twitter. We encourage you to participate in the advocacy by letting your friends and family know about the effort through these social media outlets. Will you take the 30-day Challenge? If so, let us know by leaving the comment, “I Am The Answer.”
Will you take the 30 day challenge?
Stories and Task By Each Day:
November 1st 2010- Read about Mbali & Daniel and Chantelle then learn about HIV and Adoption
November 2nd 2010- Read about Nikolas and Shelby and post the below message on the president of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva, facebook page (found here):
“Please advocate for the 65 Kyrgyz children waiting to be adopted by U.S families. To learn more about one of these children read this story.” Then Be sure that you link to Nikolas and Shelby’s Blog Post on the President’s Wall!
November 3, 2010- Read the Stories of Jason and Minuette Mae- One Child survived the US Foster care system and found a forever family while the other did not. Once you’ve read their stories visit www.beonetoo.org and watch the “I am One Video” found on the homepage.
November 4th, 2010- Some children are true miracles. Today, read about Song, who is blind, and George who has no arms. Find out about their journey to a forever family. Then Be The Answer by spreading the word about the challenge and Joint Councils work! Find our facebook page by clicking here , “like” our page and refer our page to 5 of your friends
Be watching this blog next week because two stories submitted by Dillon International will be featured. The two titles to look for are:
Miracle of Boots by Jynger Roberts and The Perfect Plan by Tonnie Dosser
Also, this is a reminder that this Sunday, November 7, 2010 is Orphan Sunday. You can check for events in your area through this Orphan Sunday EVENTS link. Are you participating in an event? If so, please share…
Cherri
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