| 12-10-07 | E-Newsletter for December |
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TO: All ASIA Families and Friends FROM: E-Letter from Sandra Miller at ASIA Hello to all friends and family of ASIA! We are pleased to report that the Taiwan Program is fully operational with a number of families in process. Please note that the website is also updated. We have added detailed information regarding the Taiwan Program and have reviewed and updated each and every page of the website (at least 75 pages in all!). There are many new photos, so if you haven't visited the site recently, we encourage you to do so. The China Program is still experiencing a long wait from dossier log in date to referral. Each month we post a wait update on the front page of the website. You will find "Wait Update" on your right and just above "ASIA News." Families who received just received their referrals waited 24 months. While the wait is still long and seems likely to continue that way for some time yet, China's program is still one of the best in terms of the physical and emotional care the children receive, along with safeguards in place that children are legitimately orphaned or abandoned. PLEASE NOTE: ASIA will implement its new fee structure effective January 2, 2008 for both China and Taiwan. All applications postmarked December 31, 2007 will fall under the 2007 fee structure. For the benefit of adoptive parents, we have endeavored to keep the increases as low as possible - the overall average increase is about three percent. We currently have waiting children available from both China and Taiwan. Please consider adopting one of these children deserving of a loving home and family. If you are interested in learning more about a waiting child, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We have received an excellent response to our appeal letter and we appreciate all the families who have donated. We still have a way to go to reach our financial goal, so if you have not yet sent in your gift, it's not too late! Our very best, Sandra Miller, Executive Director
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