Help the Rogers kids get their van back!

Hi , we are the Rogers and we are humbly asking for your help!

We are desperate for some help and don’t know where else to turn.

A little about our family . We have 16 children, 13 adopted most with special needs ranging from mild to total care .

We Bought our Ford Transit in 2019 . And I’m proud to say I was able to pay it off 2 years early .We haven’t had issues until the summer of 2023 when we brought the van to the dealership due to a weird noise when we would start it. The dealership kept the van for 3 days and said they weren’t able to recreate the sound . In February we brought the van back in because the sound was now worse and constant. The dealership ran diagnostics and said we needed a new engine because there was now metal shards throughout the engine due to faulty camfazers . The dealership asked for maintenance records , came up with 5 records of oil changes aAnd later provided the car fax report with 10 other matainance records . The warranty company is still denying the claim 6 weeks later

Our van is the life line of of our family , we have 3 children in wheel chairs and 7 others that are medically complex and are back and forth to the hospital multiple times a week.

The kids need your help! Up to this point we have been able to do most things on our own.but when the claim was denied by the warranty company and we had given all the records we had . We were devastated this is a hurtle that we can’t seem to surpass. This past year has been really hard with having to place our son Ben on hospice , Richard not work because he was in nursing school and now this , we didn’t know where to turn !

I am going to introduce you to the kids and let you know a little bit about each one .

And why this is critical to there well being !

Our family started with our 3 biological children

Hayden23, Levi 21 and Selah 19

( left to right Selah , Levi , Hayden and addy ) Hayden , Levi and Selah are our Biological children .

We then adopted Zion 15, Eden 14, and Faith 14 ( right to left in photo) from Philly foster care system .

Zion suffers from a myriad of mental health issues including Autism and bipolar disorder. He is Faiths biological brother . Eden has mild CP but you would never know if I didn’t tell you!

Emma 12 , has Down Syndrome , she was born at 28weeks , is non verbal due to having her vocal cords paralyzed when they removed her trach. She eats via a gtube and is non ambulatory and uses a wheelchair for mobility. Emma we the first child with complex medical issue to become a Rogers. She opened our eyes to the fact that complicated kiddos often grow up in institutions or hospitals . there is such a to the need to get kids like Emma into homes and Families where they can thrive.

Amelia is almost 8 and has severe hearing loss and also eats via Gtube . She had 2 heart surgeries when she was a baby and has a genetic condition called consanguinity where your genetic code is too close together. Causing all sorts of brain issues , she is missing most of her corpuscolosom . ( the thick white layer between the right and left side of the brain that allows each side to communicate with each This is Cambria , she came home when she was 3 from Florida. She had been living in foster care due to medical neglect and was at risk of being placed in a nursing home because she had tetralogy of fallott . She is now 13 and just had her 4th open heart surgery in august.

We brought Daniel home in the spring of 2017 he had Down Syndrome, an Trach and failure to thrive . He gained his wings on September 11th 2017 after having a major heart attack.

This is Ben he is 6 , Ben has HIE, caused by lack of oxygen due to a placental abruption at birth. He is total care and can’t even turn his head with out assistance. Ben has complex epilepsy and is on multiple medications to control daily seizures. He requires a ventilator and trach to breath and a gtube to eat, he has a baclophen pump to lessen his spasticity . Ben came home 3m months old from south Carolina when the agency that was working with his birth mom was in able to find a family willing to bring him home. Ben was placed on Hospice in September .

This is Addy she is currently 25 she came home when she was 15 after spending the first 13 years in an orphanage in China, she was adopted with another girl by a family in road island. Due to her behavioral and physical special needs ( she has spinabifita ) they placed her for adoption 15 months after bringing her home. She has blossomed sun to an beautiful independent young woman.

Max has apert syndrome and is trached , max has had to overcome multiple cranial facial surgeries and sadly became a part of our family due to tragic circumstances. His adoptive mom passed away April of 2020 leaving him with his 78 year old grandparents who felt inadequate prepared to parent him . We were in pa and have the medical knowledge needed to meet his complex medical needs . He was a natural fit to the rogers family and We have a wonderful relationship with grandma Gayann and Grandpa Bob!

Griffin is 3.5 , he came home in 2020

Due to the pandemic other families weren’t able to travel to travel and he was local to us .

He was born at 34 weeks addicted to fentanyl and tested positive for cocaine. He had some genetic abnormalities of his feet and spent the first month of life in the NICU at stair Christophers beforehand coming home to us. It has been an uphill battle to overcome his G.I. and behavioral issues since coming home, but he is just the light of our life. Griffin suffers with failure to thrive and global delays and is completely non verbal. but that never stops him from getting his point across!

Atlas 2.5 came home in 2022 he has a genetic condition known as Wolf hershhorn syndrome. I was connected with his birth parents, through the same agency that Griffin came home through his birth parents were unsure of their ability to parent him due to his medical needs, and we offered to do guardianship to see how they truly felt about the idea of adoption. It quickly became clear that they were not going to choose parenting, and we petition the courts to adopt Atlas . He is gtube fed and on seizure precautions.

Isaac is the newest member to join the Rogers crew in 2023 . Isaacs came to us for respite while his adoptive father was battling and ultimately lost his battle with cancer. He began to thrive after receiving DX of coffin syris syndrome, a gtube and being started on growth hormones. We all agree that Isaac should become a permanent member of our family and have started the process to permancy .

if you have read this far, thank you! And we need your help! If you can give please give , if you can share please share ! Help us spread the word and get the kids can back❣️ All funds raised will go directly to the new Engine.

thank you so much

The Rogers