If photos of children in need melt your heart, you'll need to bring a bucket to Heart Gallery of North Texas photo exhibit at Fort Worth's Gladney Center for Adoption. These heart-warming photos of children who are in foster care and awaiting adoption is on display at the Gladney Center for Adoption from Nov. 27-Dec. 31 from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.The Gladney Center is partnering with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to bring foster kids closer to their dream of becoming part of a loving family. Professional photographers volunteer their time and talents to produce beautiful portraits for the Heart Gallery. The traveling exhibit provides a photographic journey into the souls of children in foster care, capturing their spirit of hope and courage.
~ Lisa
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Hey Lisa - this is a great exhibit. I adopted from the State of WA and during the process I thought that the photos of the available children really needed to be updated.
As a photographer, I have since started a charity called www.NAOCP.com (National Association of Charitable Photographers) and we offer our services to the states to give adoptive parents a free session and photo as well as the CD of images for their "hard to place" children they've adopted. We also work with Heart Gallery.
The photos at Heart Gallery are donated to the families who adopt those children. It's a huge ordeal.
The 10th of this month, several photographers of NAOCP are donating time to take photos of 50 foster children at the aquarium and Sams Club of Grand Prairie is donating the 50 16x20 images.
I can't tell you how much having photos in the home right away changes children - mine were 3 & 4 (siblings) when we got them and it was huge at that time of their lives (to see their face on the wall really showed them that they were "home").
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