Although being a single mother and only working one job she still needed financial support to be able to make a stable life for Casey. "For me, personally, the money is the last thing I think of on a day-to-day basis."(Myles) Its more than just thinking about how much it would cost to foster, it should be the offer people take. Parents that adopt four and under would receive up to $488 for at least two weeks, up to $738 for teenagers, and much more for special needs children. They thought about an idea called “open adoption”, where the kids have a choice to stay in contact with the birth …show more content…
Although this is supposedly a charity to raise scholarships it is much more important in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, if the girls don’t go to school than the alternatives enter the realm of horror. Sponsoring the girls in Ethiopian girl’s education is consider a rescue. Tina concludes all these questions then finally has a simple answer to all of them "We are saving lives.” (Hale) The COEEF start sponsoring an eight-year-old little girl Emebet. She ends up creating a pen pal with Tina’s biological daughter where they ended up sending little toys to her. When someone told Tina about the opportunity to adopt an orphaned girl, Mia Muluwerk, Tina did not hesitate. Mia's pamphlet quote was, 'If I had not met Norm, I would have a miserable life... I would have quit school a and, without a family a I could have died from disease or starvation. Sometimes bad things happen to children who don't have families.'