Adoption ARK's Special Needs Adoption Project

Due to poverty, neglect and abandonment, there are millions of orphaned children worldwide. Children born with special needs are at greater risk and face a even more desperate future than the general orphan population. Special needs children are housed together in the poorest orphanages and often overlooked for adoption. They will not get the medical care or special attention that their particular condition requires. Their fate is in the hands of people half way around the world.

The Special Needs Adoption Project, S.N.A.P., was developed by Adoption ARK to give special needs children living abroad the same opportunity to be adopted as other orphaned children.  Adoption ARK has assisted parents in adopting children with Down syndrome, Cleft lip/palate, Cerebral Palsy, Missing Limbs, deafness/ hearing impairments, FAS and more. 

For more information about adopting a child with special needs, grants for special needs kids, and the countries where S.N.A.P. works please contact Kim Fury at (877) 213-1444 or email info@specialadoption.com.

Matthew's Story

We had never talked about adoption. In fact, after having two biological sons (that were a handful!) we made the decision (surgically) that our family was complete. But God had other plans for us. In November of 2004 we attended a Steven Curtis Chapman concert. At the concert, Chapman told the story of he and his wife adopting from China and what a blessing it had been for all involved. In that moment I knew that we too would adopt a child. We knew NOTHING about the process of adopting internationally. I began searching on the internet. The more I searched the more I felt we were being called to help a child with a special need. It was then that I came across Adoption Ark. Kim told me about the babies who lives in Kazakhstan with cleft lip and palate. I thought, "Where in the world is Kazakhstan?!" Read More