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

Dasanee is an athletic 10-year-old girl of African-American descent. She is initially quiet, but once Dasanee feels comfortable she warms up and can be very friendly.

Dasanee has good manners and likes to be helpful. Some of her favorite activities include listening to music, singing, dancing, swimming, and going to the local arcade. She also loves to spend time outside.

Dasanee is currently a fourth grade student. She is involved in chorus, intramural sports, and plays the trumpet.

Dasanee would benefit from living in a two-parent household where the parents provided her with structure and clear expectations. She hopes her future family will have pets and other children in the home. An active family would be ideal. Any interested family should be open to maintaining Dasanee’s connections with her brother, aunt, and cousin.

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 617-6273 or visit www.mareinc.org. The sooner you call, the sooner a waiting child will have “a permanent place to call home.’’