BOULDER, Colo.—
Inside a Boulder condo--worlds away from the devastation and desperation in Haiti--two women and their friends work to rescue their adoptive sons from the worsening humanitarian crisis."Our goal is to push for humanitarian aid. They call them humanitarian parole visas. That is our goal, to get them all here," says Suzie Moore.
They are 25 children from the now-flattened Bresma orphanage and include Suzanne Schmidt's 14-month-old son Gavin and Suzie Moore's 13-month-old son Jakob.
A cnn report showed the orphanages destruction.
It is a place Schmidt and Moore both visited in October to meet their new babies. "Wow. I was there. It's gone. The place where I held my son for the first time is gone," says Schmidt.
They were grateful to hear their sons survived. But now they say the children are in a race against time.
"The longer you go, the less water, the dirtier the water, less food, sickness sets in and these are little children," says Schmidt. She also worries about looting, violence and the safety of the orphans and their two female caretakers in a desperate land.
"I don't think there is a lot of hope for their survival if they don't get out. (The caretakers said) we will not live if we stay here," says Schmidt.
So they do all they can here -- worlds away from the suffering -- hoping to alleviate some of it.
"Will the government take in the orphan children, so we can take care of them? Because we are here. We are ready and there are going to be thousands and thousands of more orphans," says Schmidt.
Haiti is already home to about 380,000 orphans.
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