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What happens to Sorina, the adopted girl from Baia de Aram?. The transformation is total

She went through the hoops for years and years, with over 100 families trying to adopt her. In the end, the girl from Baia de Aram? found her place with a family in New York.

The life of Sorina, the little girl who was adopted by a Romanian family from New York, is one that no one would have believed. The 11-year-old girl is totally transformed, the piano and the violin being the passions she discovered after integrating into the new environment. She lives with her parents, George and Ramona S?c?rin, and her two brothers, Ava, 12 years old, and Adam, 5 years old.

Sorina, the adopted girl from Baia de Aram?, is a different person

His adoption was one of the most controversial in Romania in 2019, with public opinion being split in two. Some supported the family of Romanians from the USA who were the legal parents of the girl, others were on the side of the maternal assistant who had raised her for several years at Baia de Aram? .

Almost four years after the end of the whole process, Sorina S?c?rin attends a music school where she studies piano and violin. She learned to swim, ride a bike, speaks English very well and generally adapted well to her new life.

When the birth remains a secret

Hamm · When she was 13, Petra Welkers from Hamm found out that she had been adopted – she was lied to about the background, she had to cope with it on her own. How disastrous that was for her life and why she only started researching her origins at the age of 52.

By Jörg Isringhaus

When Petra Welkers opened her adoption file for the first time at the age of

52, her heart was pounding in her throat. Again and again she had

fantasized that she would find a photo or a letter from her birth mother in

Karin startte 'datingsite' voor wensouders: 'De gunfactor is enorm' - LINDA.nl (Karin started 'dating site' for prospective pare

Karin startte 'datingsite' voor wensouders: 'De gunfactor is enorm' - LINDA.nl (Karin started 'dating site' for prospective parents: 'The goodwill factor is huge' - LINDA.nl)

KARIN (39) SET UP A 'DATING SITE' FOR PROSPECTIVE PARENTS AND FOUND A DONOR THERE HERSELF

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Care Belgium - ABOUT US

ABOUT US

CARE Belgium was created, in December 2013, by a group of women and men already active in CARE International. Very quickly, other people joined this initiative. Today, they are part of the Board of Directors of CARE Belgium. Volunteers also come to support the association during the organization of events.

Find here our statutes.

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CARE Belgium Aisbl is constituted in the form of an international non-profit association governed by the law of 27 June 1921, as modified by the law of 2 May 2002, on non-profit associations, international non-profit associations, and foundations. It is entitled to receive legacies and donations.

Adoptee Voices Web Series

Ra Chapman is a client of our Post Adoption Support Service (PASS) and an inter-country adoptee from Korea. Ra decided to produce a web series about the experiences of Australian inter-country adoptees after discovering a lack of content about the topic. Read on for Ra’s story.

Can you tell us a little about yourself?

I’m a Melbourne-based actor, writer and producer. I was adopted from South Korea at 4 years old from a town outside of Busan, and I grew up in Mt Gambier SA.

I am a committee member of Korean Adoptees in Australia Network (KAIAN) and work closely with Permanent Care and Adoptive Families (PCAF) on various initiatives.

Can you tell us about your experience as a PASS client with Relationships Australia SA?

Kate Blewett uncovers the disturbing fate of children in Ukraine


Kate Blewett uncovers the disturbing fate of children in
Ukraine abandoned to state care




Duration: 02:23



In Ukraine state care has become the norm for children with any kind of
disability. Kate Blewett travels to the country to investigate what life is like
for the children who, abandoned by their parents, live and die under the care of
the state. She also meets former inmates who ended up in psychiatric
institutions labelled as ‘incapacitated’. Her findings are shocking and
disturbing.


Available since: Thu 14 Jun 2012





Credits





Reporter

Kate
Blewett


Director

Kate
Blewett


Assistant Producer

Olga
Betko


Camera
Operator

Matt
Teavee


Executive Producer

Brian
Woods


Executive Producer

Clare
Paterson

This clip is from




Ukraine's Forgotten Children


What a lifetime in the care
of the state really means for Ukraine's abandoned children.


First broadcast: 18 Jun
2012

Possibility of CIA infiltration - Pakistan kicks out aid agency

Possibility of CIA infiltration - Pakistan kicks out aid agency

Save the Children's foreign staff have been ordered to leave Pakistan within two weeks, the aid agency confirms.

It says it has been given no reason for the order, but correspondents say the move is thought be fall-out from the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.

Following the raid, a Pakistani doctor was arrested for working for the CIA.

Pakistani intelligence officials accuse Save the Children of involvement - the group denies the claims. Six of its staff in Pakistan are foreigners.

The charity has worked in Pakistan for more than 30 years. Correspondents say that it is not thought that the forthcoming expulsions will have any significant impact on its operations in the country in the short term.

Dr Shakil Afridi was arrested after it emerged he had been running a fake vaccination programme on behalf of the CIA as part of efforts to track Bin Laden, who was killed by US special forces in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in May last year.
The US authorities say Dr Afridi provided "very helpful" information for the raid and have called for his release.

Although Pakistan and the US are ostensibly partners in the fight against militancy, the Pakistani authorities viewed his actions as treason.

Media reports say Dr Afridi was in contact with staff of the charity.

But the Save the Children spokesman said that Dr Afridi had never been paid for any work by the charity and had never run any of its vaccination programmes - although he had attended a seminar shortly before his arrest.


"We never knowingly employ anyone who has worked for the CIA or any other security service," the spokesman said. "It is totally against our impartial humanitarian mandate... Save the Children is a global organisation and has a zero tolerance policy for people involved in work that is not humanitarian.


‘From Gypsy to Jersey’ | The Jewish Standard

Yael Adler talks about her trip to Romania, and her lawyer fills in some background

Probably there isn’t any such thing as a typical adoption story, but if there were to be one, it certainly wouldn’t be Yael Schusterman Adler’s.

Yael, who grew up in Fort Lee and now lives in Randolph, always knew that she was adopted. Her parents, Marcy and Herb Schusterman, never kept that truth from her. But none of them talked about it much, and Yael wasn’t very interested in it. She grew up as a happy only child, close to her family, cherished by her parents and secure in their love. She didn’t particularly look like her parents, but not all children do, and she didn’t stand out as not possibly theirs by DNA.

But just about two years ago, after her father died, she was helping her mother clean up their apartment when she came across paperwork about her adoption. “It was a treasure trove,” Yael said. “It was gold. It was things that I’d never seen before; it was exciting and intriguing. And I’d just turned 30 — a big milestone birthday. So it made me think — now I have all this information in front of me. What do I do? Do I ignore it? Just go on with my life? Or do I pay attention to it.”

There would have been no story had she ignored it, but she did not.

Scarborough mourns student who inspired despite a life of dislocation

Sam Mercer overcame seemingly impossible odds to make it to his senior year at Scarborough High School.

He lost his left leg to an infection that required amputation when he was less than a month old in his native Ethiopia. His father put him in an orphanage when he was 6. His adoptive American parents gave him up after three years. He bounced around Colorado foster homes and schools for most of the next decade.

But then last year he landed in Scarborough, where he quickly found himself in a real home and began to spread inspiration and cheer in the hallways of Scarborough High.

“Sam’s super power was his ability to inspire people,” said Dan Mercer, his newly adoptive father. “He was a survivor. He was loved by everyone. He resonated with people because of his disability and how he approached it.”

Now the high school community is mourning the death of the popular teenager, who celebrated his 18th birthday March 26 with Mercer, an associate chaplain at Long Creek Youth Development Center who has been a single foster father to 15 other boys, six of whom he adopted.