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Wednesday’s Child is a successful program that
is part of the Freddie Mac Foundation’s national campaign to
increase the number of adoptions of children in foster care. The
program started in Washington DC in 1992 and has expanded to
five additional major cities including Atlanta. Each Wednesday,
a child who is waiting to be adopted is profiled on the local
evening news. During the Wednesday’s Child segment, viewers
learn about a particular child’s hopes, dreams and needs.
Wednesday’s Child puts a face on foster care and adoption that
is hard to ignore and makes the children’s plight real to all of
us. Through this program, many children have found loving,
permanent parents. The children featured on Wednesday’s Child
are those in the most urgent need of a home. Many of these
children are over the age of eight and have been in the foster
care system for some time and desperately need a permanent place
to call home. |
