When people offer to help on the adoption
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 4:06PM Simplest and best route is to offer to buy supplies for the orphanages involved.
My spouse Vonne suggests the following:
The ideal donations are new, long-lasting clothes like Hanna Anderson, sizes 80-140 cm. Lands' End also has long-lasting kids clothes (to be bought in the same size range). ;)
No winter clothes, just the summer variety.
An important donation to improve the medical diagnostic process would be stethoscopes and/or otoscopes like the Littman Master Classic II Stethoscope and the Pro-Fiberoptic LED Otoscope (Amazon links). 
If you want to help us out, the process would be to buy them directly yourself and ship them to us (c/o Barnett Consulting LLC, PO Box 970, Franklin IN 46131). We'd then carry them over in our luggage on either the early-mid June or early-mid July trips, dispensing them to the orphanages via our highly-reputable agency.
I'll put this post on the FAQ page as well.
Thanks to anyone who chooses to pitch in.
Reader Comments (2)
A most noble deed you and your wife are planning ~ may God guide your steps.
Just a heads up from someone who was 'delivery person' in Jiangmen, Guangdong for charitable goods from kind-hearted Hong Kong residents (locals and expats) ~ donated toys, clothing, bottles, diapers, wet-wipes and anything else meant specifically for the infants and toddlers tend to "get broken" or "fall apart in the wash" or simply "disappear". We know from further investigation that these items end up in the homes of the Social Welfare House (orphanage) employees' homes for their own children. Not that that's bad ~ their kids probably need them as well ~ it's just not going to the intended recipients. Medical equipment may be a different story. In any case, someone will benefit from your charity.
Linell
When are you heading over so we have a better idea when we have to get stuff to you?