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OREM — Saturday was an enormous day within the Stewart family.
Then once more, celebrating a child’s birthday is all the time an enormous deal.
“Listed below are his new vehicles that he’ll be capable of play with when he lastly will get dwelling,” stated Zachary Stewart. “And there may be one other birthday present that we have been capable of get.”
“These are issues we now have purchased for him,” stated Cherry Stewart with a smile.
If solely the birthday boy was right here to see it.
Ready for laughter and messes
“I do nearly all of my crying in right here on this room,” Cherry Stewart stated. “I simply can’t watch for it to be filled with laughter and little messes.”
The Stewarts adopted two boys from Haiti greater than a yr in the past.
KSL-TV is hiding their faces in photos and never naming them to guard their identities.
The paperwork that may ship the boys from Haiti to their new dwelling in Orem was near being accomplished. Nonetheless, the paperwork was by no means finalized due to the chaos and violence that erupted in Haiti in March with gangs taking on the streets.
“They’re fortunately in a reasonably protected place proper now, however it’s all the time tenuous. One household we knew needed to have their youngsters evacuated and dropped at a protected home due to the violence,” stated Zachary Stewart, who’s Cherry’s husband.
KSL-TV did a narrative with the Stewarts in March when this ordeal started.
Since then, the federal government has been in contact with the Stewarts, in addition to different households throughout the nation, together with some from Utah, coping with the identical issues.
“The State Division known as us and stated they’d assist the youngsters in succession, those who have been closest to coming dwelling, that they’d get them every out,” Cherry Stewart stated. “They even requested for evacuation info from these youngsters. It was very promising and all of it fell aside.”
Getting the youngsters dwelling sooner
The Stewarts have since joined with greater than 20 different households in hiring the Fox Rothschild regulation agency, which offers with tough worldwide adoptions.
The household hopes it means their youngsters will get dwelling faster.
“They helped some U.S. households with adoptions in Ukraine when Russia invaded,” Cherry Stewart stated.
“Seventy youngsters. We aren’t asking to maneuver mountains. We’re simply making an attempt to get 70 youngsters dwelling,” Zachary Stewart stated.
They’re hoping somebody in Congress will help.
“We’re combating for each youngster to come back dwelling,” Cherry Stewart stated. “We actually want a champion. We hope it’s going to come from our Utah senators and congressmen. We’ve got obtained actually constructive suggestions however we’re nonetheless ready for somebody to face up and say, ‘Let’s do that.'”
The household additionally stated anyone who desires to assist can name or electronic mail their federal consultant to allow them to know these youngsters matter.
For the Stewarts, they only hope it occurs quickly as a result of there may be nothing like a birthday celebration when a child can play with their new toys in particular person.
“We speak to them on a regular basis,” Zachary Stewart stated. “It’s enjoyable as a result of they may acknowledge it. We speak to them by means of the telephone on the room so hopefully after they get dwelling, they really feel like they really, I’m coming dwelling to my mother and pop and that is our room.”
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