Our volunteers and supporters represent a broad range of religious traditions united with one goal: helping children join families through adoption. This vision is embraced by Ibsen through:

EDUCATION ~ FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ~ SUPPORT

We sponser annual adoption fairs,

raise adoption awareness in the community,

provide consultations for families considering adoption,

host monthly adoptive family support groups,

facilitate relationships between adoptive families,

and provide support for post adoption issues.

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The Current Waiting Child Crisis Of Our Day

~Worldwide, an estimated 133 million children have lost one or both parents.

~Every 2.2 seconds a child loses a parent somewhere in the world.

~Every day 5,760 more children in the world become orphans.

~By 2015 it is projected that there will be 400 million orphaned children worldwide.

~HIV/AIDS alone has orphaned 15 million children, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.

~In developing countries, more than one third of all children live in poverty.

~In the countries of Central Asia, and Central/Eastern Europe, 1.3 million children live in institutional care.

~Millions of children all over the world have to cope with domestic violence - be it neglect, physical or mental punishment, emotional or sexual abuse.

~Millions of children are refugees, asylum seekers, stateless and internally displaced by conflict, violations of their human rights, and natural disasters.

~Only 60% of children of secondary school age currently attend a secondary or higher school. The remaining 40% either attend a primary school or do not go to school at all.

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Ibsen is committed to Washington families who have a

desire to adopt 

special needs children, locally and globally.