In the Fall of 2008, WACAP adoption agency began to send e-mails out to many
adoption groups pleading for a new group of older orphans who needed families.
"They are all listed as healthy," the broadcast e-mail read, "They are
in danger of turning 14 and 'ageing (sic) out.' This means they may have no
support or resources and have to live on their own in China - if they are not
adopted before they turn 14." This particular group would become known as
the first "Journey of Hope" program through WACAP, one of the largest China
adoption programs in the U.S. Emails went out and word spread through the Yahoo
groups discussing WACAPs new program, which included the Luoyang orphanage
adoption group, where adoptive families were advocating for children "soon to be
aging out" of that orphanage, which comprised the majority of the children on
WACAP's list. One Luoyang adoptive parent wrote of "a program that was to get
older kids adopted. Perhaps there is a new effort to get the older kids
paperwork ready and have files in at CCAA. Maybe, they are being added to CCAA's
new 'shared' list. Thirty or so agencies are now being 'tested' with the new
'shared' list of older or sn kids." --Research-China.Org
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