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Little Flowers Foundation is a nonprofit Catholic apostolate
under the patronage of St. Therese, the Little Flower. The
mission of Little Flowers Foundation is to connect loving,
wholesome parents and families with orphaned, unwanted, sometimes
handicapped, and sometimes foreign children and babies.
Our approach to this mission is two-fold. First the foundation
raises funds in order to provide financial assistance to adoptive
families. Second, LFF works to find couples that are willing
to adopt, particularly couples who would adopt hard-to-place
children or babies.
We aim to facilitate adoptions in which the children will
be cared for physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Physically
Because many of these orphan children are physically and/or
mentally handicapped or have other medical problems, providing
for their physical needs may involve substantial medical treatment.
In less developed nations, medical treatment for even the
simplest medical conditions is either difficult or impossible
to receive. We believe that American parents can be the link
to a healthier childhood as the resources available to us
in the U.S. (both financially and medically) are far beyond
what is available to many of these children.
Emotionally
We are of the firm belief that it is essential to the proper
emotional development of children to be in a home with a mother
and father who are married, faithful and committed to each
other. A safe, secure and loving home life becomes even more
crucial to the emotional development and well being of children
who have experienced any sort of trauma or distress, which,
sadly, we know to be the case with many orphan children.
Spiritually
As practicing Catholics, we believe that the Catholic Church
contains the fullness of the truth which God has revealed
to man for his salvation. Therefore it is our priority to
support the placement of orphan children in Catholic homes
where the fullness of life and love is available to them.
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