More setbacks for Utahns waiting to adopt Haitian orphans

Relief » Devastated country's government delays children from leaving

By Kirsten Stewart

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 01/25/2010 06:46:32 PM MST

Adoption agencies field calls about Haitian orphans

By Joel Allen

Monday, January 25, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.

Read more: Local, Adoption Agencies, Increased Interest, Adopting Haitian Children

Adoption agencies on the Grand Strand are reporting a huge increase in people interested in adopting Haitian children, but prospective parents are cautioned about the long and difficult process.

Aid trickles to Haiti countryside after quake of the century

Jan 24, 2010, 19:12 GMT

Port-au-Prince - Aid this weekend started trickling through to outlying towns crushed by the recent Haitian earthquake, which is now officially one of the worst of the past 100 years as the government confirmed a death toll of at least 112,000.

In Leogane, about 40 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of women waited in 30-degree-Celsius temperatures for food coming from various German and other aid organizations.

Doctors from Japan, Canada and Germany have already arrived here, but the first food aid was being distributed on Saturday and Sunday. The town of 120,000 was nearly leveled by the quake.

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One more horror for Haiti kids

ED PILKINGTON AND RICHARD GOTT | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan 22 2010 13:42

There are only three books to be found at the Foyer de Sion orphanage in Port-au-Prince, serving the 18 children cared for here. There's a textbook titled Vive Les Maths!, and another called Histoire d'Haiti.

The third is a children's picture book in English called Prayer for a Child. It's a poem with illustrations, and begins: "Bless this milk and bless this bread; Bless this soft and waiting bed."

The book is lying on a rusty bunk-bed, with a thin, dirty mattress on top. There is no milk or bread. Since the earthquake the organisers of the orphanage have run through their last $100 and are down to emergency rations dished out to the children -- one meal a day.

Sisters relieved to have Haitian orphans in Pa.

The Associated Press

Updated: 01/21/2010 10:20:23 PM EST

PITTSBURGH—Two sisters who helped bring 54 orphans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to Pittsburgh say they haven't had time to stop and think about what happened.

Jamie and Ali McMutrie say they're just thankful that all the children are safe and sound.

Israel mulling Haiti adoptions

Welfare minister orders officials to look into possibility of adopting Haitian orphans; 'We will work vis-à-vis authorities in Haiti to determine number of children to be adopted,' Isaac Herzog tells Ynet

Roni Sofer

Published: 01.23.10, 18:59 / Israel News

Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog has ordered officials to look into the possibility of adopting dozens of orphaned Haitian children.

Plane of adopted Haitian children to arrive Sunday

Updated: Sat Jan. 23 2010 12:35:13 PM

ctvmontreal.ca

The first plane of Haitian children to be adopted by Canadian families will arrive in Ottawa Sunday morning, Canada's immigration minister has confirmed.

The government has approved a list of 154 adoption files that had been pending. Another 86 files have been fast-tracked, said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney at a press conference offering updates on Haiti.

A family in China made babies their business

The lucrative trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run orphanages paying for children who they then made available to Westerners.

Duan Yuelin and Chen Zhijin, his mother, who get children from the rural poor and adopt them out to foreigners, talk about their business in their home in Changning, China. Chen says the children are better off with their new parents. (Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times / January 15, 2010)

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Ein verheerendes Erdbeben erschütterte am vergangenen Dienstag den Karibikstaat Haiti. Seither fehlt von der ausgewanderten Cécile Gabathuler jede Spur. «Nun heisst es warten und hoffen», sagt ihre Schwester Elsbeth Frey- Gabathuler aus Azmoos.

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Azmoos. – Die Katastrophe in Haiti forderte bis zu 50 000 Tote und hinterliess ein Bild der Zerstörung. Die Angehörigen, deren Liebsten sich zuletzt in Haiti aufhielten, haben es besonders jetzt nicht leicht. Die Ungewissheit nagt an den Nerven.