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CCI was granted its NGO license in June 2007, and therefore operates a direct program in Ethiopia as a licensed placing agency. We brought our first children home in April 2008, with a total of 29 children coming home by the end of the year.

As of July 31, 2009, 78 children have joined their forever families through CCI's Ethiopian program, including 49 in the year 2009. By the end of 2009, CCI expects the year total to grow to 80 or more children. Having started working with only one orphanage in the most distant region of Ethiopia, CCI now works with multiple orphanages to serve children throughout Ethiopia through adoption and humanitarian aid projects.

CCI is proud to say that many of the children placed from Ethiopia have been older or special needs children, in addition to the many infants who will never know the suffering of poverty or anguish of living without a permanent family. CCI thanks each and every family who has adopted or contributed to the care of these orphans.

For more information, please contact Sue Hedberg, (407) 977-2810, sue@celebratechildren.org. To assist with any of our humanitarian aid projects, please contact Carmen Lopez, sponsorship@celebratechildren.org.

Adoption Agency Reviews : Celebrate Children, International

Celebrate Children, International

Oviedo, Alabama

United States

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Report: #346952

Report: Celebrate Children International - Sue Hedberg

Category: Adoption Agencies

Celebrate Children International - Sue Hedberg Verbally and Mentally Abusive towards families Oviedo Florida

*Consumer Comment:... Celebrate Children International-----Sue Hedberg not abusive

Haïti : quand adoption rime avec transaction

(Syfia / Haïti). Haïti est un des principaux « fournisseurs »

d’enfants adoptables. Une filière quasi commerciale s’y est installée,

basée sur la loi du marché plus que sur une logique d’aide à

l’enfance. Beaucoup d’enfants adoptés ont encore leurs parents…

Joi, 15 octombrie 2009 / 20:28:49

INTERVIU:Panait:Pentru evitarea corup?iei, colaborarea în adop?ii va fi doar cu autorit??i abilitate

BUCURE?TI (MEDIAFAX) - Secretarul de stat de la Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii (ORA), Bogdan Panait, a declarat, joi, într-un interviu acordat agen?iei MEDIAFAX, c? redeschiderea adop?iei interna?ionale se va face doar în colaborare cu autorit??i acreditate din statele respective, pentru a fi evitat? corup?ia.

Secretarul de stat Bogdan Panait a explicat c? memorandumul privind redeschiderea adop?iei interna?ionale stabile?te doar cadrul general, procedurile ?i termenele urmând s? fie stabilite ulterior, dac? documentul va fi aprobat.

El a precizat, în interviul acordat MEDIAFAX, c? în forma în care a fost gândit? acum adop?ia interna?ional?, nu ar trebui s? mai fie posibile cazurile de corup?ie de care se vorbea pân? la legea în vigoare, în acest sens fiind prev?zut faptul c? se va respinge orice form? de colaborare cu alte autorit??i decât cele acreditate din statele respective ?i va exista o rela?ie direct? între Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii ?i statele respective.

Inter-country adoptions might be resumed

published in issue 4539 page 1 at 2009-10-16

The Romanian Adoptions Office (ORA) has sent the Government a memorandum on resuming international adoptions only in cases where domestic adoption repeatedly fails, reads the ORA paper cited by Mediafax. The document shows that, during the four years if implementation of the Adoption Act, it has become evident that there are still a few categories of ‘children who are difficult to give for adoption’. ‘Those would be children older than six years of age, children belonging to certain ethnic minorities, children with severe health conditions or those who are more than two siblings and for whom Romanian adoptive families are hard to find. All such children stay in special state care until the age of 18’, reads the document.

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Romania urged to resume international adoptions

16/01/2007

International adoptions of Romanian children ground to halt after the government banned the practice, under EU pressure. Now its laws on adoption are being criticised as too restrictive.

By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest – 16/01/07

Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu made it clear that Romania will invest more money in social services for children awaiting adoption. [Getty Images]

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Select Property and Sarah Ferguson Announce New Charity Partnership

Select Property has created a new charitable foundation in conjunction with the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.

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PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 14, 2008 – Select Property, the UK based property developer, has joined forces with the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and the Dubai based Select Group to unveil a charitable foundation called "Sarah Selects", set up to help disadvantaged children in the United Arab Emirates.

The new charity was unveiled at the launch of the new £1.1 billion luxury residential development "Aquitainia" from Select Property (http://www.selectproperty.com/aboutus_index.php ).

Hague Secretariat rep on fact-finding mission - by Staff Reporter

12 October 2009

WINDHOEK – Deputy Secretary General from The Hague Secretariat, William Duncan, is in the country to undertake a fact-finding mission on the situation of child welfare and protection in Namibia.

The Deputy Secretary General, who will be in Namibia until Friday, will explain the implications and processes of ratifying various conventions on children.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Sirkka Ausiku, said Duncan will also provide technical assistance to her ministry as well as the Ministry of Justice (legal drafters) in aligning the draft Child Care and Protection Bill to The Hague Conventions.