Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Keep the children of Haiti in your prayers

Last night, as I watched the news reports about orphans from Haiti being adopted, I couldn't help but feel sad to think that they may have lost most, if not all of their family history. I also worry that some people may be taking the children for the wrong reasons (i.e., cute/trendy). As I feel off to sleep, the orphans were in my prayers...

And then today, I come across crap like this:

My Minx is a fashion web game that has a feature where you can adopt a child as an accessory and even dress him/her up.

The game encourages adoption of children as fashion accessories. My Minx players can buy orphans such as Pax, Maddox and Zahara – named after Angelina Jolie’s children – and Mercy and David Banda – named after Madonna’s kids. While four-year-old Zahara is said to be Ethiopian and a fan of eating guinea pigs, Maddox’s favourite food is supposedly cockroaches.


Do you think Angelina, Brad or Madonna approved this?

8 comments:

Brooke said...

Wow...utterly disgusting concept...

Middle Aged Woman Blogging said...

That is a very strange website.....

Emerge Peoria said...

I know, who thinks of this type of crap?!! I can't seem to get to the Adoption Center portion of the website anymore - hopefully it has been removed for good.

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I was watching some of the orphans meeting families last night. Wow it really was wonderful to see people so welcoming to receive these children. Just too cute! Of course I was totally tearing up.

Brooke said...

I watched some of that as well. I was nearly sobbing...I'm such a sap :)

Emerge Peoria said...

Brooke:

Check out this website, it will make you smile...

http://thehowertons.blogspot.com/

Brooke said...

Thanks for the link! Love this site :)

I'm leaving for a week-long work trip to Haiti in a little under 2 weeks!

Emerge Peoria said...

Hi Brooke:

Take care on your trip to Haiti. Please consider taking photos and/or writing something to post about your trip here on Emerge Peoria. I would really like to hear about it and I am sure other readers will as well.

Thank you for posting.

Brooke said...

I absolutely will do that. This is a journey that I intend to document as well as I can :)