Wednesday’s Child: Meet 10-year-old Zuriah

DALLAS — We usually hear the time period “together we are stronger.”

I wish to say, “With love, we are stronger.”

Zuriah is as we speak’s Wednesday’s Child!

Stuffed with a complete lot of affection, Zuriah’s new greatest good friend won’t ever depart her aspect. The 10-year-old created her on the Build-A-Bear-Workshop at the Dallas Galleria and affectionately named her “Rainbow Cake.”

“I actually prefer it as a result of it’s totally ‘rainbow,’ and it has all my favourite colours on it,” she mentioned with an enormous smile. 

Zuriah’s new greatest good friend won’t ever depart her aspect, which brings her nice consolation. Wherever she goes, Rainbow Cake shall be along with her too. 

And earlier than she positioned a coronary heart inside Rainbow Cake, Zuriah made a want.

“I want I’ll be adopted!” she mentioned, as she hugged her new teddy bear.

Pam Letourneau has been Zuriah’s Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for 3 years, ever since Zuriah has been in foster care. She worries concerning the younger lady. 

“I spend numerous nights laying in my mattress praying and never sleeping,” Letourneau mentioned in an emotional interview. 

“I call her my girl. She’s just in my heart.”

It pains her that Zuriah is the one one left of her 5 siblings to not be adopted.

“We need a forever family for Zuriah. She’s starting to ask that question, ‘Why don’t I have a family?'” mentioned Letourneau. 

Meantime, Zuriah needs everybody to know that she is type and likes to unfold pleasure wherever she goes.

“I’m a nice person, an honest person and a generous person,” she mentioned. 

Like her new teddy bear, Zuriah needs relations in her life who won’t go wherever. 

“I want to be adopted and have a family, because one day I might need a family, and I don’t want to age out of the system,” she mentioned. 

Zuriah’s advocates say she wants dad and mom who’re agency, set boundaries and have numerous love and endurance.

Zuriah believes God will deliver her a without end household. 

“He’s helped me through my childhood, he’s helped me to be a good girl,” she mentioned.

Zuriah received’t cease praying for a household. Neither will her advocates.

“That God would find her a family that could give her the life that she deserves and the one that’s been denied to her, really since her birth,” mentioned Letourneau.

For extra information on tips on how to undertake Zuriah, please ship all authorised house research to LaQueena Warren at [email protected]. Please bear in mind to incorporate Zuriah’s identify throughout the topic line.

If you are not licensed, please go to adoptchildren.org to seek out out extra information on tips on how to turn out to be licensed to foster and/or undertake or contact LaQueena Warren at 817-304-1272.

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