Girl adopted by Australian couple 15 years back now searches for her biological mother in Odisha It was way back in 2007 when Mamata, who was only a three-year-old kid, was rescued from near Puri Sighadwara. Later, she was handed over to Basundhara Childcare Centre in Cuttack.

“Knowing that she is afflicted with leprosy, she took a harsh decision and let me go. She is a great mother as she did it for me so that I can lead a decent life.” These lines from a daughter for her mother are enough to melt one's heart.

These excerpts are from a letter written by Mamata, who was adopted by an Australian couple some 15 years back in Odisha, to Puri Childline Director.

Girl adopted by Australian couple 15 years back now searches for her biological mother in Odisha It was way back in 2007 when Mamata, who was only a three-year-old kid, was rescued from near Puri Sighadwara. Later, she was handed over to Basundhara Childcare Centre in Cuttack.

“Knowing that she is afflicted with leprosy, she took a harsh decision and let me go. She is a great mother as she did it for me so that I can lead a decent life.” These lines from a daughter for her mother are enough to melt one's heart.

These excerpts are from a letter written by Mamata, who was adopted by an Australian couple some 15 years back in Odisha, to Puri Childline Director.

Finding a surrogate in Colombia is as easy as buying or selling a second-hand car in the classified ads. One need only go on Facebook to find dozens of ads: “Surrogate for hire, I’m from Colombia,” says one. “Hello, I am interested in becoming a surrogate. Strong womb and pregnancies without complications,” reads another. Like a huge auction, the messages compete with each other to offer potential clients what they believe are the most advantageous conditions. On these same websites, buyers make their demands clear. In general, the interested parties are looking for what any customer would seek in a classified ad: good quality at a fair price.

In Colombia, buying babies through surrogacy is becoming increasingly common. This practice – which is prohibited in Spain, France, Germany and elsewhere – is not regulated in Colombia. Dozens of agencies and clinics take advantage of that legal vacuum to do business, usually with foreigners who go to the Andean country looking for a surrogate and as little red tape as possible.

Yamile is a 33-year-old from Barranquilla. She is one of the women who advertising her services as a surrogate in an online forum. “We have a clinic here that does the whole procedure for you, and I have a cousin who takes care of all the paperwork for us,” she tells a potential client over the phone. Yamile can’t bring herself to say when she will be paid.

- How much are they offering?

- 20 million pesos [about $4,000].

Western volunteers do more harm than good in African orphanages. Ban this 'orphanage tourism', says Arne Doornebal.

HThe idea that 'we' from the West will sometimes help poor countries to 'develop' is based on a bad idea of ??superiority. NRC 's analysis of the Dutch apologies for the slavery past (24/12) examined how that past still has an effect today. Striking and perhaps also painful for many readers: development cooperation was soon mentioned.

I immediately thought of one of the excesses in that area, which is not even qualified as development aid. That is the large number of young volunteers who, driven by an urge for adventure or the hope of ending up in heaven, go to Africa. There, usually not hindered by any experience of working with children, they go to work as volunteers in orphanages. Voluntourism is what this is called in English: a combination of volunteer work and tourism.

The proliferation of orphanages is clearly visible in Uganda, traditionally a country that is very popular with do-gooders. In 2018, the Ugandan government stated that more than five hundred orphanages were operating without a permit. It is estimated that more than 50,000 children live in orphanages in that country. This is striking, in a country where children of deceased parents are almost always taken care of by relatives. The main reason for the existence of these orphanages is the fact that western volunteers are lured to them, because they usually also bring a lot of money.

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At the beginning of December, seven Croatian citizens were arrested in Zambia, due to doubts about the validity of the documents for the adoption of minor children from the DR Congo. The investigation is still ongoing, and the Croatian institutions are transferring responsibility for the adoption process, Croatian reports. Index.

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The investigation involving several competent authorities will determine what really happened, whether someone forged Congolese documents or failed in the adoption process of Congolese children who received Croatian documents. Currently there are various theories about this and various information and misinformation is being spread.

On Wednesday, there was also a misunderstanding when the President of the Supreme Court of Croatia, Radovan Dobroni?, stated that the Croatian courts made a mistake and that the procedure on the basis of which Congolese children received Croatian documents was not valid, because Congo is a signatory to the Convention on the Protection of Children. therefore the procedure should be different.

But Dobronic later admitted that he had made a mistake and confused the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Namely, DR Congo is not a signatory to the Convention and the adoption procedure is under the jurisdiction of the courts, not the Ministry of Family and Social Policy.

Since a few months you can again adopt a child from abroad in the Netherlands. That child will have a promising life here, but what does the adoption actually do to someone's identity? We ask influencer Lara Mallo (34), she was adopted as a baby from Brazil and made the YouTube series Looking for Lara in which she goes in search of where she comes from. “I couldn't find inner peace.”

At the age of one, Lara Mallo (34) from São Paulo was adopted by a Dutch family. She grew up in Het Gooi, where she was bullied as a child because she looked different from her classmates. Although she has actively searched for her biological parents, it has yielded little to this day.

Hey Lara, thank you for sharing your story. When did you find out you were adopted?

“I never really realized I was a different color because I always felt white. Just like my adoptive parents. But at the age of four, classmates already showed that they thought I was 'dirty' because I have a different skin color than them. As a child I didn't understand that. I thought: why am I brown and my parents are white? Then my parents explained to me that they adopted me because my biological parents could not take care of me. They said it honestly and directly, without making a fuss.”

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Since a few months you can again adopt a child from abroad in the Netherlands. That child will have a promising life here, but what does the adoption actually do to someone's identity? We ask influencer Lara Mallo (34), she was adopted as a baby from Brazil and made the YouTube series Looking for Lara in which she goes in search of where she comes from. “I couldn't find inner peace.”

At the age of one, Lara Mallo (34) from São Paulo was adopted by a Dutch family. She grew up in Het Gooi, where she was bullied as a child because she looked different from her classmates. Although she has actively searched for her biological parents, it has yielded little to this day.

Hey Lara, thank you for sharing your story. When did you find out you were adopted?

“I never really realized I was a different color because I always felt white. Just like my adoptive parents. But at the age of four, classmates already showed that they thought I was 'dirty' because I have a different skin color than them. As a child I didn't understand that. I thought: why am I brown and my parents are white? Then my parents explained to me that they adopted me because my biological parents could not take care of me. They said it honestly and directly, without making a fuss.”

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Couple had applied through the website of the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare

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A 13-year-old orphan girl, who has been residing in the town-based Balasadanam, the childcare institution, for the last eight years, was adopted by a childless couple from Tamil Nadu as per the mandatory procedures governing adoption of children in the town on Monday.

The childless couple from Tamil Nadu had earlier applied for legalised adoption of child online through the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare’s website and completed the legal adoption process, sources said.

The recognised agencies and the authorities concerned facilitated the legal adoption process in strict compliance with the stipulated procedures.

Zambia has been detaining 4 couples from Croatia for 3 weeks. They were detained from the airport on suspicion of trafficking children from the DR Congo. According to the Croatian Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy, two couples are registered in the Register of Adoptive Parents. The same Ministry answered the question of the Narod.hr portal that since 2014, 4 children have come to Croatia through international adoption. And the couples who have already adopted children from DR Congo claim that there are about 180 of them in Croatia. And that all the children were adopted on the basis of the same procedure that includes the courts.

Both in the Congo and in Croatia. Although DR Congo has had a suspension of international child adoption since 2016, as stated by the US Department of State in its Annual Report on International Adoption. Namely, by changing the Family Law on July 15, 2016, the DR Congo suspended the issuance of permits for children to leave the country for international adoption, thereby, as stated in the Report, preventing the legal adoption of children from the Congo. The Report also states that the representatives of the USA had a meeting with the representatives of the Congolese Ministry of Justice and that they asked them for explanations regarding the decisions on adoption which, despite this change in the Family Law, are made by the Congolese courts.

It is estimated that around 180 children from DR Congo were adopted in Croatia

The immigration authorities in Zambia have started following 4 Croatian couples with children from the Congo, because the DR Congo has been prohibiting the issuance of exit permits for children for international adoption for years. They joined the surveillance of Croatian citizens and carried out passport control at the airport of the Zambian city of Ndoli. From the same airport, in the province bordering DR Congo , in recent years, as confirmed by couples who adopted children from Congo, around 180 children have traveled with Croatian passports, Croatian names and surnames.

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