Address: Shaohannah's Hope, 44180 Riverside Parkway, Lansdowne, VA 20176
Website: http://members.shaohannahshope.org

The mission of Shaohannah's Hope is to care for orphans by engaging the church and helping Christian families reduce the financial barrier to adoption.

They are dedicated to helping prospective adoptive parents overcome the financial barriers associated with adoption. They accomplish this by awarding financial grants to qualified families already in the process of adopting. The size of the grant awarded is determined by several factors, the most important being need.

From their site, this is a more specific look at how they intend to accomplish their goals.

* Adoption Grants: One of the ways that we make this possible is by reducing the financial barriers to adoption through adoption grants. Because the need for adoption grants greatly surpasses any one organization's ability to fund them all, we recommend also investigating alternative means of adoption assistance.

* Engaging the Church: We also exist to engage the church to care for orphans. For this reason, we have developed the For the Church section in order to empower faith communities to live out the church's mandate to care for orphans and reflect God's heart for adoption, joining Him in His Kingdom work.

Although Shaohannah was adopted from China, the grant is not for any particular country. The application can be filled out online directly from the site. You can visit the Adoption Grant requirements page directly by clicking here. Also, recognizing that not all readers of the Guatemala Adoption Blog are members of "faith communities" as it is written here, I am also posting other resources as well. However, in an attempt to provide all possible resources, I will provide links to any grant that may be able to help someone bring their child home.

There are other services available through the site and through Shaohannah's Hope. I encourage you to walk through the site yourself to find out.

For those that may be curious, Shaohannah is the inspiration for the book I reviewed earlier called "Shaoey and Dot"