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Chinese New Year is February 16, 1999. It seems like an appropriate occasion for all of us to express our appreciation to the staff at the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) and send greetings to the Chinese embassy. Greetings from many of the families of FCC would mean a lot to the people who work on processing adoptions. They would probably be very encouraged to get some sense of how the children fare after adoption.
We've learned from past experience that mass communications from FCC can tie up the limited resources of the CCAA in deciphering faxes and translating letters, so we have to avoid that. If you do send a picture and card to the embassy, please don't send a letter! Sending a letter will just tie up translators who would otherwise be free to work on adoption dossiers. Just send a card and a picture of your child, and you might write your date of adoption and where you adopted from on the card or on the back of the photo. This simple gesture will get the message across and avoid a diversion of resources from the adoption processing.
Pictures from families in FCC will do much to point out the postive outcomes of the adoptions to date and will make the point, better than any words we could say, on just what the adoptions to date have meant to the children and their families.
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