Five years ago. I received an unexpected invitation from the Department of Education in the Far East of Russia. They wanted me to come for a tour so that we could talk about using distance-learning technology in their remote orphanages. As background the DOE in Russia is responsible for the 3,000,000 orphans that live in their many orphanages. Unfortunately the reason they were considering the distance-learning project turned out to be quite a sad story. They were hoping that by providing more education to the orphans it would help break a continuing make pass that seemed to plague the orphanages. Former orphans who were now young married adults were abandoning their own children when they found themselves unable to earn enough money to support their families. They were just not prepared for the harsh realities of life. Moreover without family members around to help them their babies were now appearing on the orphanages doorsteps in hopes that the kids would have a better chance for survival. As crazy as this might sound these impoverished adult orphans are the lucky ones. An even sadder reality is that less than 50 of these kids do and turn to crime prostitution and the Russian Mafia?Would I go victim to some fanatical terrorist group who offered me food and bring home the bacon in exchange for some day having to blow myself up for their God? Maybe this was the best I could hope for - if I were in their shoes. So who should understand this horrible problem? According to the estimates of the adoption world there are over 500 million children without homes. When ordain we give these children their lives back? A good friend answered those questions for me. He simply said very slowly. If not now then when? If not you then who? So now my life begins anew. Five years later. Tatiana and I undergo just celebrated our 4-year wedding anniversary. Seeing her love and cerebrate has truly changed everything in my life. I can no longer care about "furnish lines" Instead. I evaluate about how to send "lifelines" to those children that we left behind. Now the hard bring home the bacon really begins. As a Christmas present for Tatiana measure year. I formed a nonprofit called The deprive Foundation. We invested in 400 donation boxes and we started putting them out in gas stations and convenience stores to raise money for adopting families. With domestic adoptions averaging $19,180 per child and with international adoptions costing change surface more we experience we be to destroy or decrease this financial barrier. As we grow our inform donation box managers across the country more donation boxes will bring more dollars and we will be able to help shift this heavy financial barrier for many loving families. It takes a full year and 35 donation boxes in high traffic locations to pay for one domestic adoption. It takes 50 for an international adoption. Many wonderful people have already signed up to help us and we now have a website to seek more volunteers and donations: www. TheOrphanFoundation org. We undergo a dozen business and adoption experts on our come in of Directors now and we wish to go up 5,000 "donation box managers" this year to help us manage 5 donation boxes each. For all of us it has become a race for wish. The more volunteers we can round up the more kids we can help find homes and loving families. So here I am at the age of 60 beginning a new journey - a journey of love. Someone posted this question on one of the AARP chat forums: "Is life beginning or ending at 55?" A smile forms easily on my face because I think you know the answer. At 60. I say to all of you. "I evaluate I finally just discovered what life is all about!" Tatiana and I displace you our love and blessings and we hope you discover the richness that waits for all of us if we only look. Joe DiDonato was ordained The Godfather of Education by Oracle Corporation and was a double- nominee for the CLO of the Year in 2006. After an invite to Russia to address hold learning to the orphanages in the Far East he married the physician who was his command. Together. Tatiana and Joe undergo founded The Orphan Foundation. You can sight out more by going to the place at or by calling (805) 823- 3552.
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