Ohana means family. Family means that no one is abandoned, or forgotten
Many people know this famous phrase from a film but unfortunately not everyone can be part of a family and not everyone can create one as they would like.
We will tell you the story of our family and of our great dream.
Ali was born in Iran and to have more opportunities to growth he went to Italy at the age of 18 to study. Far from the family, however, he adapts well to the Western lifestyle and between one lesson and another he also finds some jobs to support himself. This sunny, sociable, polite and full of dreams boy one day while he was working in a restaurant where he was a bartender saw a girl and his life changed completely, he tells his mates “she could be the woman of my life”.
Georgina was born in Argentina and after her studies she decided to follow her older brother in Italy. This shy, insecure girl who did not speak much Italian was contacted to be a waitress in a restaurant and on the day of the interview she did not see the boy who would become her better half. The two felt in love and overcoming some difficulties their love goes on and soon they thought of becoming a family.
But to welcome a child you need a safe nest. By making many sacrifices they bought a house through a loan for 30 years. Their nest, however, was not ready, it tooks a lot of works and only after having done the more important ones, they thought about their first child.
After marriage they understood that perhaps life had another plan for them : that biologically they will not have children. Despite the desire to adopt a child had always been in her heart, because of the bank loan, the works still to be done at home and a not very high income, the idea of ​​adoption seemed impossible to carry on. But this couple had a lot of love to give, and for them family meant having children, no matter how they get there, but having the opportunity to raise them with love.
So they decided to tighten their belts, to do many extra hours at work, but they deeply desidered a child.
It takes three years until one day THE PHONE CALL arrived and they found out that in India there was a little 18 month old girl named Sakhi who will become their daughter. Another 7 months and then they traveled to bring her home. Their stay in India changed their perspective about life and adoption. They saw a reality that they have seen in other contexts, because poverty also exists in the countries where they were born and they have seen it with their own eyes, but there it reached their hearts and they also thought about the origins of their daughter and how her adoption had changed her destiny, giving her the opportunity to grow up serene and with many resources, as well as with the endless love of her mommy and daddy.
Sakhi is a cute, sweet, sunny, chatty, sociable and very, very active girl. Mom and dad found it hard to look after her and the first period was hard, but over time these characters arrived from different places and with different personalities, cultures and habits found a balance and became a family in all respects. Only then Ali and Georgina started thinking and dreaming about having another child.
There is only one problem, the problem is purely economic. They have some savings but they are not enough to cover the expensive costs of adopting a second time. Furthermore, Georgina had a job that was incompatible with motherhood as she meaned it, so with the arrival of her daughter she had to stay at home to take care of the little girl who lived 2 years without a mom and a dad.
Covid doesn't help the financial situation.
Sakhi is now 7 years old, she is serene and happy, she loves her home and her family. She enjoys playing with her animals in the backyard, she has many friends, she goes to school, she likes nature and hiking in the mountains, but every day she asks for her little brother or sister. Sakhi is a sweet and caring little girl and will become a loving older sister. Ali and Georgina know that in their destiny there is another child with big deep eyes, chocolate color skin and an enormous need for … a FAMILY
