“This adoption has impacted Shabnam in ways that can not be accurately expressed through words. Since she was an older child when she was adopted she remembers the conditions of her country. She remembers being with her birth family for 5-1/2 years. She loved them and misses them.
There are parts of her country she loves and parts that she will never miss. She knows what wonderful opportunity the United States affords her. She knows that being part of a family instead of part of an orphanage is much healthier.”
Schmidt Family
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The Upchurch family, of Nashville, NC, recipients of Gift of Adoption's 600th grant, enjoy together time while modeling bunny slipper from corporate partner, Runaway Rabbit (left to right: Isaiah, James, Rachel, Jana).