Thoughts during the holiday season often revolve around family. As a part of Amara's extended family, you can reflect with pride on the joy your support and involvement has brought in 2009. So far this year, Amara has placed 53 children from foster care into permanent loving homes--a 43% increase in placements made last year at this time.  
 
Those 53 children, having suffered abuse or neglect in their past, began this year living in the uncertainty of temporary foster care. Their year ends in the safety, stability, and permanence that an adoptive family provides. The life transformation that a loving home provides is magical in any season.  
 
Thank you for being part of our family. We are grateful for your continued support and commitment to our community's children.
 
Warm wishes,
John Morse, Executive Director