Alijah loves sports, baking

Alijah is a social, engaging and polite 13-year-old of Cape Verdean descent. His favorite activities include playing sports, board games, card games. He also likes cooking, baking and swimming. Alijah enjoys showing off his basketball and football skills. He prides himself on being a good mentor to younger children.

Alijah benefits from accommodations on his IEP to assist him with more emotional/social supports. He does well in school and performs on grade level.

Legally freed for adoption, Alijah will do best in a family with two parents who can give him the attention he craves and provide him with structure and rules. Since he is a great mentor, his team is seeking a family with younger children in the extended family for him to be a role model to but no other children or only older children in the home so Alijah’s needs receive the attention he deserves. He would love for his future family to have pets or be open to adopting a pet. It is very important to Alijah to maintain contact with his eight siblings who are also looking to be adopted.

Who can adopt?

Can you provide the guidance, love and stability a child needs? If you’re at least 18 years old, have a stable source of income and room in your heart, you may be a perfect match to adopt a waiting child. Adoptive parents can be single, married or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBTQ singles and couples.

To learn more about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange at 617964-6273 or go to mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.”