"Families worry about children's food, adoption papers"

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Updated at 10:02 PM today

Michelle Gallardo


January 14, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Relieved their children are unhurt after the earthquake, two adoptive families now fear Haitian orphanages will run out of supplies- and the paperwork may be lost.

The Haitian orphanage where the young boy Lisa Gregg and her husband are planning to adopt sustained only minor damage in the earthquake. All the children are OK.

"He's had quite a life and he's only 3," said Lisa Gregg. "And I keep saying we just want to get him home. He's three. Things can be smoother."

But how quickly they can bring him home is now in question. All the paperwork filed on the adoption may have been lost. She's grateful he's OK- but concerned about his immediate future.

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Adoption-Link out of Oak Park, Ill., -- one of six agencies in the U.S. that work with orphanages in Haiti-- arranged the adoptions for Gregg and Lewen. Both of the facilities the agency works have only minor damage. But, they are running out of food and water.

"We had recently shipped a giant sea container full of supplies and that was in customs at Port-Au-Prince and all those supplies are gone because of destruction or looting," said Heather Breems, Adoption-Link.

Another problem- the documents may have been lost.

"Probably all the documents were in the office in Port-Au-Prince, which has now collapsed, so we're working very hard to find a way to issue a new visa and passport here within the U.S. so that all we need is someone to go and grab the little girl and she can come home," said Breems.