Lighthouse Adoptions is owned by Lighthouse Enterprises for Children, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Our mission is to provide charitable assistance to children in need of the basic necessities of human life such as food, shelter, medical care, and/or permanent families. Our current goals are: to relieve the suffering of homeless children in Haiti; to recruit, train, and facilitate adoptive families for children in need of permanent adoptive placements; and to minimize the misery of children awaiting adoption. Lighthouse is currently involved with several projects to meet these goals. The tax-deductible donations of generous people like you are what make these important programs possible.

The Safe Harbor Project: Support of BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Only 600 miles from the coast of Florida lies land where starvation stalks the children and poverty cripples everyone. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. 80% of the population lives in abject poverty, without medical care, adequate nutrition, or even potable water. 45% of the population is completely illiterate. The statistics for children are even more grim: at least one in ten children will die before age four, and 7% are enslaved.

Brebis de Saint Michel de L'Attalaye orphanage, or 'BRESMA', in Port-au-Prince Haiti shelters over 100 homeless children at a time. Most of the children are waiting to be adopted. Lighthouse supports the orphanage with financial contributions, high-protein food, staff training, and pre-adoption counseling for older children. Besides helping to provide the basics necessities for the children, the Safe Harbor program strives to give them some of the little luxuries all children deserve: toys, special treats to eat, something nice to wear to church.

On-site missionaries in Haiti
In November of 2006, sisters Jamie and Alli McMurtrie made a commitment to go to Haiti to help the most fragile children - sick infants and toddlers. In a separate house, these brave young women have taken in and saved the lives of several of the most desperate cases brought to the orphanage. In addition to caring for the sickest of the sick, Jamie and Alli provide waiting adoptive families with pictures of their children and extra love and attention for all the children of BRESMA. Lighthouse is proud to help support Jamie and Alli in their service of the orphanage.

When you support the Safe Harbor program, you bring both security and a bit of fun and joy to children who have known very little of either before.

The Homeward Bound Project: forever families for children who wait
While there are a great many families desiring to adopt healthy infants and toddlers, there are also those children who wait and wait for families of their own. Some have special needs. Some wait for a family who has room in their hearts and home for a sibling group. Others are simply older than many families had considered adopting. For our older children in particular, watching all the little children go home while they wait and wait, un-chosen and unwanted, is devastating. Although both BREMSA orphanage in Haiti and Acres of Hope orphanage in Liberia are safe places to live, neither will ever be as good as a real family to love.

The Homeward Bound project supports the children who wait. We strive to offer financial assistance to aid families who might otherwise not be able to afford adoption. Lighthouse workers evaluate older and special needs children on-site to determine their needs and recruit families who can best meet those needs. Counseling and education help to prepare older children for their transition to their adoptive homes.

When you support the Homeward Bound project, you are doing nothing less than granting hope to the hopeless. Homeward Bound really is changing the world, one small heart at a time.