Current status (4/12):

We are DTC--Dossier to China!  Now we simply wait for our Travel Approval (13-16 weeks, darn it) and we're off to bring Django home.

Read the Boulder Daily Camera article from February 18th!

Django

—pronounced jang go—

is a Romany (Gypsy) term meaning

"I awake"

Her namesake is

Django Reinhardt

There's music:

Django's Hope

by Jim Wilson

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Django Hope

Born September 11, 2005  Anhui Province, China

Coming home to COLORADO

Django is a Waiting Child, special needs, China.  Intersex is her special need.  Intersex is a condition that is frightening to many potential adoptive parents, and offensive to some, but the Hope family knows that Django was born exactly as she is meant to be….

Django's parents inquired about adopting her after reading about her and seeing her photo. Unfortunately the agency costs were more than their family could take on. Just days later, a grant was made by a private donor on behalf of the 8 special needs kids being handled by the agency. The grant would cover all agency fees—$12,300 each!

The Hope family was able to make a commitment to Django and she became their daughter. A short week later, the grant for Django, and only Django, was withdrawn.  The grant was approved for the other 7 children on the list which is wonderful because they all found families.

We don't know why Django's grant was withdrawn.  We suspect it has something to do with her intersex condition.

The agency has been very supportive of the Hope's decision to continue with Django's adoption even without the help of the grant money.  The China Center for Adodption Affairs is also behind the Hopes and has granted them official pre-approval to adopt Django.

The usual "treatment" for an intersex child in China is radical genital surgery, much as it was in the US until just a few years ago. There's no need for such extreme measures, and the Hope family must get Django home before anything is done to her that can't be reversed.

The Hope family says:

Django is our daughter, and we WILL bring her home, whatever it takes. We will find a way.

 

 Bring Django home! 

 No Paypal account needed!