Reader Needs Travel Advice
Can any of you who have travel experience help Kathy. Thanks! Tawra
Question: Tawra,
Hi there! Our family is adopting a special
needs 18 month old girl from Kazakhstan. Even
with some of the fees being reduced it is still
looking at costly us $30,000 and that's not
counting the surgery she will need when she gets
over here. Our insurance will pay 80% but that
20% can be a lot.
I need any suggestions for effective and inexpensive fund
raising as well as any advice on saving money on
traveling in a foreign country or any other advice
for saving money in an adoption. I told the kids
that we were going to have to start living
differently saving every dime we could. They
asked "How differently?" and I told that depends
on how differently God wants us to live! Thanks
for your website.
Blessings,
Kathy
Question: Tawra,
Hi there! Our family is adopting a special
needs 18 month old girl from Kazakhstan. Even
with some of the fees being reduced it is still
looking at costly us $30,000 and that's not
counting the surgery she will need when she gets
over here. Our insurance will pay 80% but that
20% can be a lot.
I need any suggestions for effective and inexpensive fund
raising as well as any advice on saving money on
traveling in a foreign country or any other advice
for saving money in an adoption. I told the kids
that we were going to have to start living
differently saving every dime we could. They
asked "How differently?" and I told that depends
on how differently God wants us to live! Thanks
for your website.
Blessings,
Kathy
posted by Tawra Jean at 10:45 AM
3 Comments:
I would suggest you check to see what aid is available in your state. Your newly adopted child may qualify for Medicaid-type coverage. Even with your medical insurance, that could help pay some of the deductible/co-pays. You might also qualify for respite care, and if you get it, I would urge you to take it - taking care of several children is extremely tiring. Add special needs to the mix and you WILL need that respite care. Don't feel guilty about taking a few hours for yourself.
I would also suggest contacting the Shriners to see if they would be able to treat your child at one of their facilities. It's free - friends of ours in the ministry were able to get a very extensive back surgery for one of their children done at no cost. You do not need to have Masonic affiliation to get treatment at a Shriners facility. www.shrinershq.org is the website.
Best wishes and prayers for your family.
Christy
We adopted a special needs child, and we had a choice of going with the Public Aid card for all of her insurance needs, or putting her on our policy and only using the Public Aid card for things that our insurance did not cover. We couldn't use the Public Aid card AND our insurance at the same time. Needless to say, it would have been better to just keep her on the Public Aid (medical card), because she incurred a lot of expenses.
Believe me, you will get a blessing from doing this, but it is tiring.
I wish you all the best!
I just posted a comment, and forgot to add a very unique fund-raising idea that I read about in our local paper. A family needed to raise thousands of dollars for their child due to health care costs, and local businesses agreed to donate a certain percent of their profits, on a particular day, to this family. The businesses included were fast food establishments, family dine-in restaurants, and sandwich/coffee shops. It sounded like a neat idea to me, and if we lived closer to this town, I would have done it!
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