Acts of Kindness
Foster kid that’s lived with 15 different families doesn’t believe couple when they say they want him
Over the course of 11 years Alex didn’t know stability and found himself being bounced around from home to home 15 different times. Then he met Jenny and Stephen Madkour.
Ma Fatima Garcia
06.15.21

Kids are full of energy; they are always on the go and are very playful. It’s how they enjoy their childhood.

Sadly, some kids slowly lose their energetic and lively personalities. They start withdrawing from everyone and eventually succumb to sadness.

These children are the ones who enter foster care or end up in an orphanage.

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Each child in those facilities has different stories.

From being neglected, abused to losing their families, these kids are battling an invisible war inside their hearts.

According to research done last 2019, there are more than 400,000 children in foster homes in the country alone. Children whose ages range from infancy to late teens are all waiting to find their forever homes.

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Pexels / Victoria Borodinova

Each child is waiting to belong to a family that they could call their own.

A young boy named Alex, who is now 16 years old, had spent most of his life in foster care. For 11 long years, this boy has been to 15 different foster families.

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In the process, Alex was able to limit himself from feeling attached.

“It was a really big struggle to [think] ‘OK, I’m going from this home, in two weeks I’m going to another home,” Alex said in his interview last 2018 with KOIN.

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KOIN 6 / YouTube Screenshot

Who could blame him?

This child wanted to belong, he wanted to share his heart, his love for a family, but after a couple of weeks, he would transfer to another home. No wonder he never settled.

Last 2017, couple Jenny and Stephen Madkour saw a segment from Jeff Gianola’s Wednesday’s Child, where they saw Alex.

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KOIN 6 / YouTube Screenshot

They felt something different about this kid. They wanted to learn more about Alex.

“Anybody who’s seen that video of Alex, his core awesome comes out in that video,” Jenny said in her interview. “It was such a great thing, the way Jeff Gianola talked to him and Alex’s interaction with him, it really gave us a glimpse of who Alex is.”

His eyes started to show hope when the caseworkers from Boys and Girls Aid told him the news just before Thanksgiving.

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KOIN 6 / YouTube Screenshot

In fact, it was such a special moment for him that he remembers the time the good news was delivered to him.

Each child in the foster care system wishes to belong. They might show that they are emotionless, distant, or even angry with this world, but deep in their hearts, these children just want to be loved.

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KOIN 6 / YouTube Screenshot

The Madkours felt that they had to do something when they heard about the shortage of foster homes in their area. They wanted to help, and they wanted to open their home and foster an older child.

“We had been looking for a very long time,” Jenny told KOIN.

It was the perfect plan because that they have an extra bedroom in their home. Never did they expect that they will fall in love with their first foster child.

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Alex Madkour / Facebook Photo

They knew Alex belonged to them. Their connection was so strong that they never wanted to let him go.

They processed his adoption papers and by now, they are one big happy family.

“I didn’t think I was going to find a forever home this good,” Alex ended his interview.

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Alex Madkour / Facebook Photo

Now, Alex can be himself again. Never afraid to smile, to open up his heart, and to share the love that he has to give.

We wish all the children in the foster home and orphanage could have a happy ending like Alex.

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