About Us

Your Reece's Rainbow Leadership Team

Greetings and welcome! My name is Andrea Roberts. I am the mother of an

almost 8-year-old boy with Down syndrome, and a passionate advocate for

other children around the world who were born with that extra 3rd chromosome.

Like many unsuspecting birth parents, my husband and I grieved for quite some time after Reece's

birth in April of 2002. The life we had envisioned for ourselves and our first-born-son was turned

completely upside down, and we felt very much alone. We were so blessed to find help through the

Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta and Parent-to-Parent of Georgia. Our faith that God had

given Reece to us, and us to Reece, for a purpose, carried us through our darkest hours.

Reece's Rainbow was started in 2004 as an outreach program serving new families with babies with

Down syndrome at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA. The nurse who attended me post-partum with

Reece, Mrs. Kim Wood, RN, called me one day out of the blue and asked if she could use Reece's name

for her hospital service project. She asked if I would come talk to new families and share everything I have learned with them before they were discharged from the hospital. I was moved, honored, and terrified. Would I be able to face a new grieving mother? Would I be able to HELP and not break down again? YES.

Since that time, we have met countless numbers of new "colors" of Reece's Rainbow. We have made so many wonderful friends, and our life has been blessed in a million ways. Our network of friends and families continues to grow. But the one constant is REECE...the beauty and innocence that a child with Down syndrome brings to the world is truly one of Divine nature. God has led me through some very difficult times, but waiting on the other side of that "rainbow" for me was enlightenment, empowerment, compassion, mercy, and a tremendous "calling" to reach out to other children like Reece who were not as fortunate as he to have a loving, supportive family to grow up in.

In 2006, the program expanded to include promoting the international adoption of children with Down syndrome. By raising money to offer adoption grants on waiting children, we are able to give adoptive families the extra financial help they need to bring a child with Down syndrome home from a miserable existence in overseas orphanages. Our Sponsorship Program provides a unique opportunity for anonymous donors to contribute to the adoption journey of our families. These children are viewed as outcasts with no ability to learn or be functional members of society. They languish in mental institutions, hidden away from the world in shame. Even if you are not able to adopt a child at this time, you truly can change the course of a child's life by helping adoptive families afford the costs of international adoption. $20, $50, $1000....whatever you have goes into an interest-bearing fund for ANY family adopting a child with Down syndrome. Click here to learn the many ways you can help!

Families interested in adopting should visit our New Family page for more information on our country programs, our waiting children, the costs, and the process in general.

The primary goals of

To raise awareness regarding the plight of children with Down syndrome in foreign orphanages and their availability to be adopted

To raise adoption grant donations for each of our waiting children

To seek new adoptive families for orphans with Down syndrome internationally

To provide adoptive families with additional fundraising opportunities.

To fund humanitarian aid opportunities and improve the quality of life of our children waiting to be adopted

To fund educational and therapeutic opportunities for orphaned children with Down syndrome living in foreign orphanages

To fund and facilitate the development of new Down syndrome birth parent support groups in foreign countries, thereby decreasing the number of children placed in orphanages

To enact social change abroad about children with Down syndrome and other special needs through the testimony of adoption


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