I recently had a very fun photo shoot with Wednesday’s Child at the Georgia State Fair held at Jim R. Miller Park in Marietta. Wednesday’s Child is a program that spotlights Foster Care children in need of a loving home every Wednesday on a local news program. WAGA Fox 5 Atlanta and I followed Trinity around the Fair and captured all the fun she had. The best part of this segment that will be airing today is that it was a success story. Trinity now has a forever family and we were able to highlight her Mom, Carmen, as well. Watch Fox 5 Atlanta today at 6PM for the full story.
Trinity’s new friends at the Georgia State Fair.
The organizers of the Georgia State Fair and everyone we met bent over backwards to make sure Trinity had a very special day. They were truly awesome! Check out and share the Wednesday’s Child program and website. There are many children who are not success stories yet and are looking for a forever home.
Wednesday’s Child of Georgia is a media based child-specific recruitment program utilized to heighten awareness on adoption & to improve the lives of children in foster care by helping them find permanent, loving and safe adoptive homes.
Info from Wednesday’s Child Website: “Wednesday’s Child (WC)– Georgia is a partnership of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, WAGA Fox 5 TV – Atlanta, and the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services Permanency Unit. An award winning program with a proven track record of success is part of the Dave Thomas Foundation’s national campaign to increase the number of adoptions of children in foster care. The program started in Washington D.C. in 1992 and has expanded to five additional major cities including Atlanta. Each Wednesday, a child who is waiting to be adopted is profiled on the local evening news. During the Wednesday’s Child segment, viewers learn about a particular child’s hopes, dreams and needs. Wednesday’s Child puts a face on foster care and adoption that is hard to ignore and makes the children’s plight real. Through this program, many children have found loving, permanent homes. The youth featured on Wednesday’s Child are those in the most urgent need of a family. Many of these children are over the age of eight and have been in the foster care system for some time and desperately need a permanent place to call home.”
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