Dear Friends/Family,
I urgently need your help in assuring we have congressmen and senators at our upcoming congressional event to discuss our children caught in the Russian Adoption Ban. Below you will find 6 things you can do to help us out. Even if you can only do one of them it will be extremely helpful.
#1 This Weekend email your local congressman and state senators. See sample letter below or change to make it more personal.
#2 Tuesday - call your local congressman and state senators to see if they received your email and if they will be attending the event. See sample phone call below.
#3 Ask your friends and family to help us out by doing the two things above.
#4 Share the trailer of the film To the Moon and Back helping us reach 15,000 views and showing our government there is interest in our cause.
#5 Report back to me either by commenting on this post or messaging me privately letting me know what you have done and the response you have received.
#6 Allow me to personally deliver a letter to your representatives while I am in DC letting them know you would like them to attend the event or thanking them for RSVPing saying they will attend. I will send you a copy of the letter to make sure you approve.
We have less than 2 weeks to pull this off so I am in desperate need of an army to help make sure we actually have an audience at the event. You all have been amazing during the last 4 years and I thank you very much for all the support you have given to try and help get our children home.
Sincerely,
Sample email to send and links on where to send it.
Dear Congressman/Senator......,
This week you will be receiving an invitation from Congressman Collin's office for an event titled Bring Our Children Home - A look into the 2012 Russian Adoption Ban. This issue is very important to me and I urge you to make it a priority to attend the event scheduled for June 22nd.
I have a friend who still desperately wishes to adopt the child their family was in the process of adopting when the ban happened. There are approximately 25 children still living in orphanages 3 years after the ban because no one else has come forwarded to adopt them. Many of these children have special needs and have been emotionally tortured due to not knowing why the families they thought they were finally getting never came back for them. Some have even been adopted in Russia only to be returned back to different orphanages and separated from siblings or sent to live in horrid mental institutions.
My friend is trying to work with congress to find a humanitarian solution that will finally allow these precious children to come home where they belong.
Please contact Katie in Congressman Collin's office to let her know you will be attending this very important event. I would also appreciate an email back letting me know you have RSVP'd.
Sincerely,
Your Name
City, State
Sincerely,
Your Name
City, State
Tuesday's Phone Call
Hello, my name is ......... and I recently sent Congressman/Senator ....... an email asking them to attend a very important event titled Bring Our Children Home - A look into the 2012 Russian Adoption Ban. I was calling to find out if they received my email and if they have had a chance to RSVP to Katie at Congressman Collin's office. If not, please remind them that this issue is very important to me and ask them to kindly notify me regarding their ability to attend. Thank you.
