A lot of you have been asking me what my capstone project is about, and I'm now ready to tell you.

Adop-ted aims to bring awareness about adoption to the world through that most well known of children's toys, the teddy bear.

Teddy bears are easy to take care of, you can have more than one and they are always available for a hug. It's easy to adopt a teddy bear. It's not always so easy to adopt a child, but through Adop-ted you can support children in orphanages who are waiting for their families.

Each bear is identical (because we were all created equal in God's eyes) and they wear different styles of clothing according to where they are 'from'. Bears from China will have different clothes to bears from Chile or India, and the money raised for each bear will go to an orphanage or adoption charity in the place it represents.

Adop-ted is originally aimed at parents with young children who wish to educate their kids about the world and people in a gentle, loving way. However this is by no means the only group who would be interested; teddy bears cross the boundaries of age, gender, social and cultural backgrounds, and so Adop-ted is open to anyone and everyone.

Depending on the success of the project (whether it remains theory or goes into full scale practice), further development could include disaster relief items representing real objects that are bought for real people.

Quick question if you have time to answer: Should it be adop-ted or adopteddy? I like both.. let me know what you think!

They’ve just been started, but please do check out www.adop-ted.org and adopteddy.wordpress.com