Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Fayth, 7, is a healthy, active young girl of African-American, Caucasian, and Cape Verdean descent. Fayth loves to play and run around. She loves to be outside and says she enjoyed attending a recent outdoor event and having her face painted!

Fayth is doing well in school with the help of an Individual Education Plan (IEP). She is in a regular classroom and receives speech therapy. She has a hearing deficit, which affects her speech. She has been fitted for hearing aids to improve her hearing and speech.

Fayth could be placed in a home with a single mom or two-parent family. She needs a patient family that is understanding and kind. She would do best as the only child in the home or with much older high school or college-age children. She has two sisters, a 10-year-old who is also in foster care, and a younger sister who has already been placed. Fayth is close to her sisters, and contact between the girls will be important. She will also need contact with her birth mother.

Who can adopt?

Can you provide the guidance, love, and stability that a child needs? If you’re at least 18 years old, have a stable source of income, and room in your heart, you may be a perfect match to adopt a waiting child. Adoptive parents can be single, married, or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBTQ singles and couples.

The process to adopt a child from foster care requires training, interviews, and home visits to determine if adoption is right for you, and if so, to help connect you with a child or sibling group that your family will be a good match for.

To learn more about adoption from foster care, call the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) at 617-54-ADOPT (617-542-3678) or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.’’