This child is his father’s son!

I’m so sorry it’s taken me this long to update since Kemly’s homecoming! It’s been a whirlwind of adjustments to say the least!

Check out the fantastic news article that our local paper, The Lowell Sun, did. http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_14309530

We are so thankful for all of the support we’ve gotten in the past 2 weeks! Please add me on facebook to check out our pictures and videos- they are much easier uploaded on FB! Search for: Kristin Brisson Scott

In the Orlando Airport

Not a birthday but a Gotcha Day. A day that will be celebrated every
year! It came a full year before I ever imagined it would but God
uniquely planned this day and this time in these circumstances and we
are THRILLED!

We’ll be taking this one day at time with you, first losing your
biological mother in the Hurricanes in 2008, being placed in an
orphanage with no familiar faces and then living through a 7.3
earthquake that has devestated your country. Followed by at least 50
aftershocks of 4.5 or higher, let’s be honest those are earth-shaking-
quakes. You are strong and resilient, we know, but this past week
would be traumatic to the strongest of adults.

We pray God protected your little heart mind through all of this and
can’t wait to get to know you!

-Planning to hibernate with “lil k” for a period of time. Watch for
pictures and updates bit give us a little bit of time before he’s
expected to be the fun and smiley kid we knew in Haiti.

My son is in Orlando. That’s UNREAL! They are probably eating their first meal on American soil…for some strange reason i HOPE it’s McDonalds!

Waiting to know whats next….will rigaud get flown to boston? will we catch the FIRST flight to orlando tomorrow morning? NO IDEA!

more to come on this crazy adventure!!

At noon today I got call from Laurae that our boys were on the way to the airport with their visa’s. Lord willing they are getting on plane tonight. The tricky part is we won’t know where the plane is going until is leaving PAP. It could be Houston, NYC or Miami! Hoping to know soon…

In Haiti, everything is hurry up and wait. We hurried to contact senators, congressman, etc to try and get the humanitarian parole pushed through. After 6 days of that, they announced humanitarian parole. Then we had find the documents we needed to be able to qualify for HP. Rigaud hurried up and did that! Paying a man to go into the the collapsed Ministry building to get our documents, success! (which still BLOWS MY MIND).

Now we wait. Rigaud went to the embassy yesterday and tried to get visa’s. They are helping those in dire need first, which makes sense. I’m honestly not sure what situation our boys are in right now. I’m not sure if Rigaud was ever able to buy food or what. They told him to come back tomorrow…so today, we keep waiting…

If you know someone going to Haiti will you send them to check on our boys?

Kingdom of Kids Orphanage
10 Rue Berto
Cite Militaire, PAP

Thanks to everyone praying and hoping and praying and hoping with us…I’m adding pictures from November of Kemly…check them out here

OKay here’s the story:

Our Orphanage Director, Rigaud, went searching for the documents we need in order to bring Kemly home on Humanitarian Parole. He went down to the Ministry building where he believed the documents were and PAID someone to go inside the collapsed building and look for our documents. Low and behold, by the grace of God whoever Rigaud paid was SUCCESSFULL! He walked out with 3 dossiers: the Richards, the Irish’s and ours! UNREAL!

He then went to the Embassy, presented the documents and now they are working humanitarian visas for our four boys!

More to come in the next few days…we have to first hear from the Department of Homeland Security that their visa’s have been approved. Then we TRAVEL!

Keep praying for those folks working on the humanitarian visas!

**since posting this the Joint Council on International Childrens Services has asked us to hold off on these letters as they are determining the next steps to take.

Hi Everyone!

Here’s something that ANYONE can do to help with process of getting orphans out of Haiti. There is a form letter below that you can send to your congressman/woman and or senators. Find out who you need to send that letter to by selecting your state from this website: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Thanks for your help!

Kristin

Hello, my name is…
I am in the process of adopting a child from Haiti…

OR

My …

I know that many Members of Congress continue to support efforts on behalf of Haiti’s orphaned children. I extend my thanks to the Congressman/Senator.
I am calling because…
We need your help to get our adoptive child out of Haiti safely.
Water, food and medicine are running out.
Gangs have looted some of the orphanages and even travel is not safe for the children.
The Department of Homeland security has granted humanitarian parole, but it is only the first step.
The devastation from the earthquake is vast and our child’s safety – and even life – is at risk.
Joint Council on International Children’s Services, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, and a team of congressional offices and relief organizations are working to coordinate a staging and housing center to provide:
Physical safety
Medicine
Food
Water
A Staging Center for USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) to process humanitarian parole
The groups working to launch the staging and housing center already have most of what the children need.
But they do not have
Water
Security to protect the children and supplies from gangs
Transportation to bring the children into this safe haven

We are asking that (name of Member of Congress) personally call:
Secretary of State Clinton, and
Dr. Shah, Administrator Designate at USAID
And specifically request that they authorize security forces be sent to the offered staging center and 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.

If this security does not reach the site within 24 hours, children being adopted and many other children will continue to suffer and may in fact not live long enough to be united with my family and the other 300 U.S. families.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME

This is what we heard this morning:

Rigaud (our orphanage director) spoke with Melande (his wife, who is in Miami) this morning this is what he said:

“The house is fine but they are still staying outside because they are still having after tremors. They do go into the house and use the bathroom, they go in groups with an adult when they do go in.

They have been using the generator to charge the inverter so… at night they have lights outside.

Melande said she could hear voices in the background as everyone is living outside. Riguad’s mother refuses to come and stay with them as she is sheltering people at her house in the yard at the school. Many school children are staying there.

The church is OK They have been boiling the water but they are pretty much out of water and food. This is their biggest need at the moment.

They need cash, there is food available but there is no way to get them money the banks and western union are not operating. They feel safe where they are.

No specifics on specific people other than Riguads mother is fine.

What they want from us is PRAYER!!!”

God I pray for wisdom of those distributing supplies…give them a system…a plan…a way to reach the hundreds of thousands of starving people waiting for help.

Do these things:
1. Joint Council’s Orphan and Family database is up and running. If your organizations has families in the process of adopting from Haiti, please request that they fill-in your adoption information. The database will allow Joint Council to advocate with the U.S. and Haitian governments, as appropriate, for for the cases currently in process. Please note: the database is temporarily housed on Joint Council’s donate page, donations are not required to utilize the database. Adoptive families should choose the second option, “Register my Haiti adoption with Joint Council” to enter the necessary information.”

This is the link – and you do NOT need to donate – they just want to get of all Haiti adoptions in progress…

2. U.S. State Department: Adopting parents can send their information, including the names of their children and orphanages, to AskCI@state.gov, so the State Department has a good way to contact parents.