Adoptees without citizenship are struggling with COVID-19. Adoptees for Justice is Helping.
Below, Adoptees for Justice details the hardships adoptees without citizenship face during the COVID-19 pandemic and invites your support.
Our fellow adoptees are in need. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted many aspects of life across the world. Many people are struggling to obtain basic necessities while countless others are hurting due to lack of job security. During these hard times, we want to recognize and support our community members who are without citizenship, and thus have limited/no access to unemployment benefits, healthcare, housing, food, COVID-19 testing/treatment and will not receive a stimulus check.
Cindy’s story: Cindy is an adoptee, and like many of us, she is struggling because of COVID-19. She doesn’t have support from her adoptive family, and as a single mom, she has to take care of her young daughter while still working to pay for basic necessities like food and utilities. Because of Cindy’s current situation, she can’t receive any type of benefits.
Cindy: “As a single mother, working minimum wage 7 days a week is difficult, but you have to survive.”
But Cindy is one out of what is estimated to be thousands of adoptees without citizenship. Many who would most likely be excluded from relief packages like the CARES Act even though she would otherwise be eligible. In response, Adoptees For Justice has established the A4J COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund to provide financial assistance to adoptees without citizenship.
Will you join us and help support adoptees like Cindy? Support fellow adoptees. Donate to the A4J COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund now.
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**100% of donations given to the A4J COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund will go to adoptees without citizenship