By Will Huff
STARKVILLE, Miss. (Take 30 News) -- The Coronavirus is affecting many things like spring break, school, and work. However, across China thousands of young children suffer in orphanages and they have been since long before the Corona Virus hit. For years Chinese orphans have been subject to poor treatment, poor diet, and poor conditions. For years American Families have been adopting these children, providing homes for them, providing family, and sometimes even saving their lives. But, because of this pandemic, families have now been cut off from their potential children.
Stacy Huff, a mother of three adopted children, two of which are from China, says she knows several people who should already have their children but do not.
"I have several friends who were supposed to have already traveled to China and back who are not able to do so right now because of the virus at the time they were supposed to travel it was because of the virus in China but now it's because the virus is here as well," Huff said.
Huff says that many families have been affected by the virus.
"I mean people I would call my friends, 2 or 3.” Huff said. “Overall just in groups and social media, hundreds have been affected by it."
Amid the outbreak adoption agency, Lifeline, asked its community to help provide supplies to orphanages in China and got a big response. Lifeline is sending 5,000 face masks, as well as $3,000 worth of specialized infant formula, and more.