Please Call Your Legislators!

We have contacted many of you regarding the campaign going on for Vietnam adoptions. I just got done calling and emailing my legislators. For some reason I've always been intimidated by this sort of thing, but it really was simple. After talking to a live person, I emailed them with the same message as well. When I talked our local representative's office, they actually gave me the email of the right person to contact, which I thought was really cool that they are listening! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the email we sent that explains the details:

Please join us in a campaign that's going on to encourage our government to come up with an interim agreement in order for adoptions in Vietnam to continue when the current agreement expires on September 1. You can find out more about it here . Please call your legislators today, Tuesday, or Wednesday (June 2, 3, or 4th) asking them to them to support A Child's Right Campaign for Vietnam. Please call both of your U.S. Senators and your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. You can find your Senators' phone numbers and email address at www.senate.gov and your Representatives' phone numbers and email address at www.house.gov. I've included Illinois senator's information: Richard Durbin (202)224-2152, Barack Obama (202-224-2854).

Include the following in your calls and emails.

· "I/we urge the Senator/Congressperson to join the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Co-Chairs and sign their letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice in support of the recommendations found in Joint Council's A Child's Right Campaign for Vietnam."

If they have not heard about the Campaign, ask them to contact the Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute at 202-544-8500 or Joint Council on International Children's Services at 703-535-8045.