The international cooperation project "From our heart to that of Africa", in the wake of the initiatives born after the death of Ambassador Attanasio

Kinshasa, Goma, the province of North Kivu and Bas Congo. The Friends of Children Association ( Aibi ) has been present in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2007 , with numerous projects. A commitment that became even more decisive following the death of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio , with whom Aibi had begun to collaborate fruitfully. The new international cooperation project "From our heart to that of Africa" ??also fits into this groove, co-financed by the Commission for international adoptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, of which Aibi is the coordinating body, which formally began on July 26, with an overall budget of around 700,000 euros.

The activities, anticipateby the association, will take place over 18 months between the cities of Goma, Mbuji Mayi and Kinshasa and will be carried out in partnership with the Vis, with the Congolese organizations Kimbiliyo and Solidarité Pour le Développement and with the authorized bodies for international adoption Cifa and Naaa. The goal, reads a note, is to "promote the right of minors to live and grow up in a family, encouraging recourse to family reintegration, foster care and adoption for orphaned and out-of-family minors in the Republic Democrat of the Congo". The beneficiaries will be, in particular, 184 children, welcomed in the Don Bosco Ngangi center in Goma and in the Don Bosco Muetu Center in Mbuji Mayi, and 101 children welcomed in the Sodas and Fed centers in Goma, "who will be guaranteed assistance, psychosocial accompaniment and , where possible, family reintegration or alternative family care solutions". Similarly, "100 vulnerable minors in the Ngaliema and Kintambo districts of Kinshasa will be guaranteed the right to study as well as educational and pedagogical support".

Overall, "there will be 600 minors attending the primary school of the St. Georges Mission in Kinshasa who will have the opportunity to strengthen their learning thanks to extra-curricular activities". Not only that: the project, clarified by Aibi, is also aimed at "over 100 families of origin and foster families who will be provided with material support for the implementation of income-generating activities or who will be the recipients of parenting accompaniment and support courses" . Finally, «there are numerous awareness-raising activities on abandonment and the right of the minor to live in the family aimed at Congolese communities and public authorities; the estimate is that with these activities we can reach over 3 thousand people between civil society and representatives of the institutions".

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Crying that she wanted to go home, a 3-year-old girl was sent to live with a new family Tuesday afternoon, devastating the one she had lived with her whole life.

“You could hear her crying down the hall,” said Nicole DeHaven, tears falling down her cheeks as she talked about the little girl she and her husband, John, have raised since she was three days old. “They had to hold her back. She kept saying, ‘I want to go home. I want to go home.”

Wyandotte County Judge Jane A. Wilson ordered the DeHavens to turn over the girl at the county’s juvenile office by 4 p.m. Tuesday, the couple said. From there, the girl in the pink Aurora princess dress would be taken to a family in Manhattan, Kansas, that wants to adopt her.

In a decision Friday, Wilson ruled against the recommendation of the Kansas Department for Children and Families that the girl stay with the DeHavens, who have been her foster family since Oct. 31, 2019.

Wilson then consented to the girl being adopted by the Manhattan family, which has three of her biological siblings, although she has never lived with them.

MONTVERDE, Fla. - Ivy Lord – a young girl from Nigeria – has finally made it home to the U.S. to be with her parents, a journey that has proved to be a years-long process through the adoption system.

Ivy's adoptive parents, Lisa and Ian, were overcome with emotion as Ivy landed at Orlando International Airport, the final leg of their journey from Lagos, Nigeria.

"Three years ago she was adopted, and it's finally here. She's finally home, and I know she's a little overwhelmed right now, but she feels so loved and so supported," said Lisa.

FOX 35 first shared Ivy's, Lisa's, and Ian's stories in June 2021, when the Lisa and Ian officially adopted Ivy, then 6, from a Nigerian orphanage, but struggled to get U.S. officials to grant Ivy a visa to bring her to the United States.

The Lords reached out to FOX 35 and their U.S. representatives and senators hoping to get help bringing Ivy here. As FOX 35 previously reported, the Lords would spend weeks at a time flying to Nigeria to spent time with Ivy, while they worked desperately with lawyers to finalize the paperwork to bring her to the U.S.

South Korea's national justice panel and a parliamentary delegation from Norway have discussed ways to uncover the truth behind falsified records amid a boom in overseas adoptions from the mid-to late 20th century.

South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission held a meeting with ten members from Norway's committee on family and cultural affairs in Seoul on Monday, which was also attended by Norway's ambassador to South Korea, Anne Kari Hansen Ovind.

The commission requested that Norwegian state agencies share records and data related to adoptees as well as evidence related to human rights violations during the citizenship acquisition process.

In response, the Norwegian committee vowed to actively cooperate by reviewing the situation of South Korean children adopted to Norway and support investigations with victims.

Last year, 370 adoptees sent to nine countries, including Norway, Denmark and Sweden, requested an investigation into their adoptions by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, claiming human rights violations.

Parents want to start a mass claim against two ministries, the Safe Home reporting point, the Child Protection Board and youth care institutions. The policy by which many of their children were placed under supervision or removed from their homes was unlawful, says the foundation in which several parents have united.

Insufficient research has been carried out into custodial placements and supervision orders over the past thirty years, say the parents of the Stichting Collaboration of Parents with Youth Care. According to the foundation, policy in recent years has also been aimed at reducing parental control and legal protection “to virtually zero”.

The organizations and ministries thus went against Dutch law and international treaties, say the parents. Affected children and parents can register to participate in the mass claim. It is not clear how many parents will actually sign up. According to the foundation, "more than 100,000 children and their parents have probably suffered damage".

Üble Nachrede gegen Oana Krichbaum: E-Mail-Terror trifft jetzt Verteidigerin (Defamation against Oana Krichbaum: E-mail terror now hits defender)

Pforzheim/Enzkreis. A scenario that repeats itself: In the trial in which a defendant from the Enz district has to answer in court for defamation against Oana Krichbaum, judge Stefan Bien again fails to pass judgment. Too many applications from defender Hubert Gorka still have to be processed.

This time the atmosphere in the courtroom is once again charged with emotion. And one thing runs like a red thread through to the last day of negotiations. Again she screams, again she has to be admonished and again she interrupts others: The accused (50), whom the Pforzheim lawyer Oana Krichbaum is said to have described on the Internet platform Facebook, among other things, as a child trafficker.

Before even thinking about pronouncing a verdict, a rare picture appears: public defender Susanne Burkhardt applies for a release from her mandate. Not only does she seem to be at the breaking point, she also says it quite explicitly: "I have panic attacks when I open my e-mail program," says the lawyer. Because: The accused is now not only terrorizing the Krichbaum family with threats and insinuations in emails, but also the judge and even her as a defense attorney.

"The procedure has become unbearable for me," says Burkhardt , who is considering filing a criminal complaint against the accused.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s group is getting into genetic mapping, looking to make a health care trend led by disruptive US startups like 23andMe more affordable and widespread in India’s growing consumer market.

The energy-to-ecommerce conglomerate will roll out within weeks a comprehensive 12,000-rupee ($145) genome sequencing test, according to Ramesh Hariharan, chief executive officer of Strand Life Sciences Pvt., which has developed the product. Reliance Industries Ltd., led by Asia’s richest person, acquired the Bengaluru-based firm in 2021 and now owns about 80% of it.

The genome test, which is about 86% cheaper than other offerings available locally, can reveal a person’s predisposition to cancers, cardiac and neuro-degenerative ailments as well as identify inherited genetic disorders, he said.

The project to bring affordable personal gene-mapping to India’s 1.4 billion people — on track to be the world’s most populous nation — will potentially create a treasure trove of biological data that can aid drug development and disease prevention in the region. It also dovetails with Ambani’s ambitions to dive further into the world of data — he has often called it the “new oil” — as he pivots his $192 billion empire beyond refining into consumer and digital services.

“It’ll be the cheapest such genomic profile in the world,” Hariharan said, who also co-founded Strand Life Sciences. “We’re going out at an aggressive price point to drive adoption as it gives us a chance to build a viable business in preventive health care.”

The profile of people registering to adopt a child in Malaga has changed greatly in the past decade. Ten years ago there were practically no same sex couples that started the procedures to adopt. Now, these account for 75 per cent of the requests that reach the child protection system.

«Right now it is couples made up of men who are mostly offering themselves as adoptive families,» explains the delegate of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality of the Junta de Andalucía, Ruth Sarabia.

This trend coincides with a decline in adoption applications nationally. From 193 requests in 2011 to a total of 70 in 2022. In little more than a decade, applications have dropped 63.7 per cent.

The decline is even higher in international adoption applications. From 2011 to 2022 these have plummeted by 89.3 per cent, going from 84 couples who offered themselves 12 years ago as adopters to nine last year, the lowest in history.

«The drop in international adoptions began to be noticed as a result of the 2008 crisis, adding to this that the prospects for national adoption are better, since they involve fewer procedures and a shorter waiting time, as well as being less expensive», stated Sarabia.

CAIRO – 27 February 2023: Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Social Solidarity Mohamed Omar al-Kamary stated Monday that Egypt used to have 526 orphanages, but now the figure dropped to 497 as 29 shut down due to the increase in alternative care.

To better ensure the safety of adopted children, the legal advisor revealed that the ministry plans to pay foster families to avoid any risks of human trafficking. Also, it works on introducing weekly/monthly visits to foster families by either the ministry itself or the facility where the children were adopted.

As for foster families living abroad, Kamary said that the ministry is trying to make agreements with other countries for their agencies to play the monitoring role on its behalf. He added that Egypt has that kind of deal only with Qatar until present, noting that regulations provide that at least one of the foster parents has to be an Egyptian citizen.

The statements were made at the Regional Conference on Social Care System Reform organized by the Ministry of Social Solidarity in collaboration with UNICEF and the Arab League.

National Coordinator at Rwanda National Child Development Agency (NCDA) Naphtal Rutayisire said that the establishment encouraged the residents of every village to elect a man and a woman to respond to the needs of children, help in abuse prevention, and assist with reporting sexual assault cases.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A firefighter experiences a happy ending when he met his biological mother for the first time in Chile.

Eyewitness News first told you about Odessa firefighter David Avary several months ago when he found out he was one of thousands of children stolen as babies and adopted out illegally under the Augusto Pinochet regime in Chile.

It was a trafficking of children that experts say was the Chilean government's way to reduce poverty and control the population.

A Houston organization called Connecting Roots, founded by a Houston firefighter who was also stolen at birth, was able to track down Avary's biological family.

He met his family for the first time this past weekend. A hug and reunion that were once just a dream became a reality nearly four decades later.