Since 2005, our family has been working hard to get a family
member, Nayeli, into a safe home and out of a place where she was
enduring severe physical and emotional abuse. After years, it seems we
are finally there. We are in the final stages of paperwork and hoping to
be reunited with her in a month, in Nicaragua where we will have her
custody court case and file for adoption. The urgency of our situation
is that we need to pay the adoption agency and lawyers now while we are
doing the paperwork. The other urgent matter is that this is our one
chance at getting custody of her and making sure she is safe.
It
has been a long journey, trying to get Nayeli and her siblings into
safety. From 2009 - 2010 (2 years) we had temporary custody of her and 4
of her siblings. At that time the children flourished in a home with
us, started attending school, tae kwon do classes, therapy and cultural
events. In the end of 2010, the Nicaraguan government gave their mother a
second chance at parenting, but they were immediately placed in same
situation as before. With no governmental follow up we were unable to
remove them from the abuse they were once again experiencing. Since
their mother passed in 2013, we have been working to get the children
removed from their father and placed with other family. In the winter of
2016, we were able to get temporary custody of Nayeli again, and now we
have been working throughout the year to make sure her custody with us
is final, and that she have guaranteed safety and a home with us.
Now
15 years old, Nayeli has continued to express her desire to find
permanent family with us. She is very close with our two children,
especially having grown up partially with Amaru. And this year having
formed a relationship with Itzel, who is four. Nayeli has so much
compassion for her individual relationships with those she loves, while
also having a very broad life vision. She thinks deeply about how she
treats others, and how others treat her. She wants to learn languages
and someday be a translator. She's been learning chess and guitar since
being with us. Her strength is something I can't even begin to fathom,
and how she blends all of these qualities together against the odds to
do so.
We desire the safety and peace that she deserves, like
any child that comes from an unsafe home. This has been a difficult and
long journey for all of us and we want more than anything to be reunited
and move into a place of growth and healing. We are so close to the end, but still have a lot of expenses to cover. Thank you for taking the time to read our adoption story.
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