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International Assistance and Adoption Project

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We'd like to introduce ourselves. International Assistance and Adoption Project (IAAP) is a licensed child-placing agency in Tennessee. We have been placing children with families since 1990.


The Graham family with their five children and daughter-in-law

My wife Cheryl and I began IAAP after our own experience in 1986 of adopting our daughter from Korea. Along the way, we've certainly learned a lot and been able to share our knowlege and experience with other families who adopt through IAAP.

Our own family has now grown to five children ranging in age from 9 to 28 years.

We form very close bonds with our adoptive family community, sharing their hope, joy, anticipation and anxiety as we help them with their adoption.

Our adoption programs currently place children from Vietnam and China. Our program in Vietnam has been active since 1990. Since that time we have provided medical assistance, funded vocational training programs, built several orphanages, provided funds for surgery, supported a school for the blind and placed children for adoption with families

throughout the United States.

We currently are providing support for 6 orphanages in Vietnam. These orphanages house children ranging in age from newborn to 14 years old. Many of these older child-

ren will not be adopted and need our continued support. We also have a foster care program in China and provide support to three orphanages.

While we are the parents of five children (and now Grandparents to three), we feel like the grandparents of all the children we place in homes.

Cheryl and I wish you the best on your adoption journey. It is the most rewarding experience of your life.