LINCOLN — Mother’s Day passed with gratitude from a woman who has fostered and adopted dozens of children from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation suffering from varying degrees of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
Nora Boesem, who now cares for 14 children and adults she has adopted, said she cried after seeing the outpouring of generosity for her dire financial situation caused by a divorce, an accident with an uninsured driver and piles of medical bills for her adoptees living with disabilities.
How to help
A friend and colleague of Nora Boesem’s has organized a GoFundMe page to help her family continue caring for former foster children, many of whom she has adopted over the years. Organizers say the money will go toward repairing the family’s vehicle and helping offset the costs of care.
As of Sunday, donations to a GoFundMe account started by a friend neared $20,000, allowing Boesem – when she gets the funds – to catch up on mortgage payments, retrieve a repaired family SUV from a body shop and pay off some of the family’s medical bills. The plight of Boesem and her family – former residents of western South Dakota – was detailed in an Examiner story a week ago, when donations were just over $1,300…