Another day of waiting with NO NEWS! It seems that although advocacy groups have developed a safe, effective plan for bringing our children home, it is back in the federal government's hands- we are desperately waiting for news that they have taken the appropriate steps to make this happen. Again, we ask you to help us... You can start by contacting your legislators... Remember, its easy, fast, and effective!

1. Go to http://www.congress.org/ to find your legislator
2. Just type in your zip code and then follow the links for the U.S. Senators and Representatives, and BARACK OBAMA
3. You can click to "contact" and submit your "comments."
4. Copy and paste the following text into the box:


I am writing to request your swift action with the next and crucial stage of evacuating orphans from Haiti. As you may have heard, Secretary Napolitano announced yesterday that Humanitarian Parole status would be granted to Haitian orphans who had already begun the adoption process with American families at the time the earthquake struck Haiti. We are grateful for this important first step, but time is of the essence to ensure safe and successful evaulation of these children from Haiti. The situation on the ground in Port au Prince is deteriorating by the hour. Water, food and medicine are running out. Gangs have looted some of the orphanages and even travel is not safe for the children.

We are asking our government to pull together and create a Safe Haven Central processing center in Haiti as soon as possible so all the children have safe shelter, protection, food, water, medical care, and can have their paperwork processed for entering the US.

I ask that you please help by personally calling Secretary of State Clinton and USAID Administrator-designate Shah and specifically request that they authorize that security forces on the ground in Haiti be sent to the staging center that is being set up for the orphans and that these forces also assist in the extraction and transport of these children from their orphanages to the staging center. All other pieces of a successful operation of this staging center are currently in place, but all hinge on this authorization of security and transport of the children. Please help us finish the mission of getting these children into the loving arms and care of their American families so that assistance efforts on the ground in Haiti can focus on those who do not have alternatives for care.

Thank you,