This programme is especially suitable for New Zealanders wishing to adopt children from the following groups:

1. An individual child from 6 to 14 years with some health or behavioural problems. Younger children 6-7 years are more likely to have more serious health problems. Older children may be healthy, but have some learning difficulties or behavioural problems that are common to the children growing up in the orphanages. Children over 8 years might not have any health, learning or behavioural problems but have experienced trauma and sadness in their past.

2. A sibling group of two children. This might be two children up to about 10-11 years, where one of them might have some health problems. It might also be two children with the older sibling up to about 12 years and the younger sibling up to about 5 years; they might be healthy or have some learning difficulties or health problems. Other children could be over 8 years that may have no health problems.

3. A sibling group of three or more children. These sibling groups can consist of children from 4 to 14 years.  The most common case is three children from 5 to 11 years.  Usually such children do not have any identified health or behavioural problems.

4. In some rare cases, it is possible to adopt an individual older child or a sibling group without any health problems, but where the adoptive family are required to maintain regular contact with biological siblings of the child/children in Lithuania.

As in other European countries, children are cared for in orphanages after coming into government care earlier in their lives. Children are usually of European ethnicity, aged 1-15 years of age, with mostly older family groups waiting for adoption. Children may have backgrounds of abandonment, neglect or abuse. Families should be comfortable dealing with issues from their difficult past. Children often need personal attention from a dedicated parent to reverse the the effects of their earlier life.