OGDEN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Fifteen orphan children from a Utah adoption group remain stranded in Haiti, caught in bureaucratic red tape, but the adoption worker who brought most of the orphan children to Utah refuses to quit.
“Okay so we're just holding on and waiting right now,” said Wasatch International Adoption Specialist Chareyl Moyes as she spoke into the telephone from her home office in Ogden. Moyes got home from Haiti late Monday night. She spent 11 days there gathering up children from two different orphanages, finalizing their paper work and getting them on planes to their new homes in Utah. Fifty of the children arrived at the Salt Lake International airport on Monday night and are now with their adoptive families. “Yeah, it was the hardest thing I've ever done,” Moyes said.
But amid all the joy at the Salt Lake airport, Moyes cannot forget the16 children she had to leave behind. Kids like 8 year old Frabrize who got pulled off the plane at the last minute because someone lost his paper work. “He didn't understand it; he didn't understand why he was being left behind.” Moyes said.
With limited sleep, Moyes went back to work. “I'm not going to quit till we get them home.” Using email, text messaging and cell phones
Moyes said this has been the most emotional and trying, but yet most rewarding experience of her life. “When I see the kids, when I got to Miami and the parents were able to go there and meet their children and I see them embracing their children and thinking, if I even had a small part of that then yeah, it's worth it, it's way worth it.”
Moyes credits her success in getting so many of the orphan children out of Haiti to following the rules, obeying U.S. and international law and divine intervention. She isn't sure how she will help get the other 15 orphans in her group to Utah, but vows that she will not give up until she does.
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