Envision. Dare. Act.

“Adopt A Waiting Child” is an organization that has been created by Larissa Koedyker along with a team of people who are passionate about helping older children and special needs children of any age from Eastern Europe to find a forever family.

Larissa Koedyker is originally from Ukraine, she is an adoptive parent herself: her husband and she adopted their daughter from Ukraine in 2007. Larissa has a special place in her heart for children from Ukraine and countries from former Soviet Union: Russia, Kazakhstan and others.

These children would love to be adopted, they want to have a family, to be loved and we would like to make their dream come true. We call them "waiting children" because they are patiently waiting for a family to find them. Many of them have a stable place to live: a well-run orphanage, attentive caregivers and friends. Yet all of them have the same desire: they hope to have a family one day. With our help some of them will!

Our team consists of adoptive parents and professionals who worked in adoption field for many years. We assist you during your adoption process from the very beginning up to the point when you bring your child home.

Our organization has a new way to look at the adoption: there are more than 1,000.000 orphans in Eastern Europe and 90% of them are 6 years old and older or have some special needs. These children have a much smaller chance to be adopted since most of the families look for adoption of younger and healthier children. We are giving each child a chance to be seen, known and loved. One child at a time.

We have been blessed with wonderful families who adopted many "waiting children". Some of them have the pictures with their children on our website, you can locate that information by clicking on the link "Already home". These families are ready to share their adoption stories with you if you choose this path of saving a child`s life.