Promise Kids a Future (PKAF), a local adoption agency, is working with their orphanage in Africa called Noah’s Ark Children’s Home, to raise funds for adoption.

Their “Hope for the Future” campaign has raised roughly $8,500 at press time with a goal of $18,000 by Dec. 20.

“For the last several years we have had an anonymous donor who has reached out to say that they would give a certain amount if we could match it by the end of the year,” said Promise Kids a Future Director Jill Baker. “This (deadline) we set as Dec. 20.”

PKAF was started in 2006 by Baker, who has had a heart for international adoption.

“It’s just a beautiful thing to be able to provide (adoption) for people,” Baker said. “I love the idea of joining people who want children that don’t have families. As much as it is one way, it is the other; a child that needs a family. And, there (are) families that need children.”

G.S. Kulkarni, J.:— This is a foreign adoption petition wherein the petitioner, Bal Asha Trust, Bal Asha Dham, Anand Niketan, Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai-400011, a recognized adoption agency alongwith the co-petitioners Mr. Fabil Maria Parodi and his wife Mrs. Elena Nerozzi, both of whom are Italian nationals having their address at Corso Roma 9-15121 Alessandria (AL), Italy, are before the court praying that male minor “Yuvraj” born on 15 July 2012 be granted in adoption to the proposed adopters.

2. Minor Yuvraj was admitted in Additional Observation Home, Mankhurd on 26 July 2017 and thereafter on the same day as per the Safe Custody Memo issued by Child Welfare Committee, Mumbai City-I, (for short ‘CWC) as per the provisions of Section 36(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 was transferred to the petitioner.

3. Thereafter, on an inquiry as undertaken as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice Act by an order dated 10 April 2019, the CWC declared minor Yuvraj legally free for adoption. A certificate to that effect is placed on record. The proposal for adoption in question by the adoptive parents was also considered by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), New Delhi by issuing a No Objection Certificate dated 13 September 2019 to this adoption as per Adoption Regulation 2017 and Article 17(c) of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption 1993.

4. Insofar as the adoptive parents are concerned, they are Italian nationals residing at address noted above. They have been married for past 16 years (Date of Marriage 18 May 2003) with no biological children. The adoptive parents have however, already adopted two sons aged 15 years and 11 years from Italy and China respectively. The citizenship certificates of the adoptive parents, consent letters and health reports are placed on record, also a family photograph and passport copies of the adoptive parents are also placed on record.

5. Insofar as the health of the adoptive parents is concerned, a report dated 10 September 2019 records that both the adoptive parents enjoy good physical and mental health and are not affected by any psycho-physical pathology and as a result both of them are healthy with a strong constitution.

33 years of democracy have not completely changed social services in Romania. An example of incredible aggression against a minor confirms this. An employee of the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection in Bucharest revealed to Euronews Romania an abuse of a child with special needs from the Harap Alb Center in Bucharest.

A 16-year-old boy who suffers from autism was allegedly washed with the hose by the caretakers at the day care center. The aggression took place in the courtyard of the center in the summer of this year. The reason: he couldn't get to the toilet anymore and peed on himself. The Harap Alb Center in Sector 4 of the Capital is intended for children with disabilities. An employee of the Social Assistance Directorate revealed to us, under the protection of anonymity, the terrible event.

Anonymous source: "He was taken out into the courtyard of the center with other children and was hosed down by staff, and later the child was apparently placed on a hot surface because he had suffered burns on his soles, burns which were investigated by Institute of Forensic Medicine and we could see some burns of high intensity because the child, I understand, was not able to walk".

The boy ended up in a wheelchair due to burns on his soles

At the time the boy was examined, he was in a wheelchair due to burns on his legs. The doctors recommended 30 days of medical care. After the abuse occurred, the Department of Child Protection was notified. The City Hall of Sector 4 says that an internal investigation was launched, during which the two caregivers were no longer at the center.

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Melanie Kleintz was adopted from Peru as a small child in 1980 – illegally. She does not like to think back to her childhood in Germany. What she was missing: love. She found it when she later met her birth family. Today Melanie Kleintz is an adoption counselor.

The Afghan woman ran down the street towards her friend’s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family’s case.

Surely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would now be returned, she thought. She was so excited that it was only after she’d arrived that she realized she wasn’t wearing any shoes.

“We thought within one week she’d be back to us,” the woman told The Associated Press.

Yet two months after an AP report on the high-stakes legal fight over the child raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban, the baby remains with U.S. Marine Corps Major Joshua Mast and his family. The Masts claim in court documents that they legally adopted the child and that the Afghan couple’s accusations are “outrageous” and “unmerited.”

“We are all concerned with the well being of this child who is at the heart of this matter,” said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after the AP detailed the child’s plight in October.

FFIA was the first Swedish organization that came to Romania after the fall of the wall and worked there during the years 1990 - 2001. Almost 200 children were adopted from the big, scary institutions in different parts of the country. Gabriela Coman, President of the Romanian Central Adoption Authority in Bucharest, gives here her history description and her advice to adoptees who want to search for their roots in the country.

At the beginning of the 90s, the law on international adoptions was very lax and allowed a large number of Romanian children to be adopted without clear norms. Because of this, a new law was passed to establish a central authority in Romania to monitor and manage the cases where a native family for adoption was not found.

Despite these improvements, critical voices were raised as more measures were taken to improve the handling of international adoptions. Therefore, a new law was introduced in 2004, which allowed international adoptions of Romanian children only if the adoptive family was related to the child in the second line.

These measures were recently changed (2012) so that a Romanian child can be adopted internationally only if the adoptive parents are related within the fourth degree to the child, or if an adoptive parent is a Romanian citizen.

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Over the years, FFIA has collaborated with around twenty orphanages and a few hospitals with specially established departments for abandoned children. Some collaborations have been very long-lasting, such as with Asha Sadan in Mumbai, ISRC in Kolkata and SOFOSH in Pune. We have collaborated with both private and state orphanages. In the latter part of the 1980s, licensing requirements were introduced for Indian organizations to work with international adoptions. Many state and even private orphanages could not pass the complicated procedure required to obtain a license. In many cases, therefore, children were transferred to the licensed orphanages in order for the adoption to take place.

When the Indian central authority CARA changed the rules in 2012, it was no longer possible to have a direct collaboration between us and the Indian organizations. According to the new rules, it is CARA that decides from which orphanage a family seeking adoption will receive a child. Thus, our opportunities for in-depth knowledge of and good cooperation with the Indian orphanages were impaired.

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The orphanages were overcrowded and filthy, the living conditions unworthy. beginning of

The orphanages were overcrowded and filthy, the living conditions unworthy. At the beginning of the 1990s, Romanian children were redeemed through adoptions - so it seemed. But what actually became of them is uncertain. The fear: Many could have fallen into the hands of human traffickers.

BUCHAREST. When twins Zoe and Mikaela Radford were left by their birth parents in a maternity ward in the small Romanian town of Puciosa in 1991, they were only a few days old. They were adopted and moved to Canada with their foster parents - it is said. Little Jonathan Yourtee was probably taken to a hospital in Constanta by his parents. In 1991 he was taken over by a family from the United States. Later, the new parents also adopted Jonathan's brother Matthew. In 1995 he left home, the destination is unknown.

Reporters from the Romanian newspaper "Romania Libera" tried in vain to find out what became of Zoe and Mikaela, Jonathan and Matthew. They are just four of thousands of cases, of whom nobody knows how they ended up growing up and where exactly they live. Today they would have to be young adults - Romania's forgotten children who disappeared from the country's overcrowded orphanages after the collapse of communism over 20 years ago. At that time, trading in children became an international business.

Anyone could "pick up" a child in Romania if they wanted to. Without a lot of bureaucracy and long waiting times, as is usually the case with adoptions. However, as soon as the children left the Romanian border, their tracks were lost. Quite a few, it is feared, could have fallen into the hands of human traffickers and been forced into prostitution.

The young woman from the Allgäu did not know her biological mother before. Now she has visited her in Romania.

Roberta, 23:

I was adopted from an orphanage in Romania. I was two years and three months old then, now I'm 23 and have finished my training as a physiotherapist. My parents told me that the home was very poor. Later they adopted another little boy, who is my brother to me.

I have often intended to search for the woman who gave birth to me and gave me away. Especially during puberty I sometimes felt a little strange, not belonging. And then one day, that was in 2016, I just did it. I wanted to close the issue for myself. I had her name and about her age. When I saw a woman on Facebook, I knew immediately: This is her. We look alike. I thought it was pretty cool that there are still people who look a lot like me. I never had anyone who looked like me.

I skyped with her. She was pretty nervous, I just a little bit. Then we planned my trip to Romania, we had discussed that my parents would come with me. They support me a lot in every way.

An unusual commission investigation has begun in South Korea.

The South Korean authorities will investigate whether adoptions to the West have taken place on an erroneous or flawed basis.

The commission started in December 2022 by selecting 34 suspicious cases. As many as 20 of them concerned adoptions to Denmark.

At the beginning of January, the commission dealt with a further 130 cases, and the commission will contact the last adoptees during February and March .

Among the first cases is Louise Kwangs from Denmark. DR has previously been able to tell how the Korean adoption agency, Korean Social Service (KSS), falsified her background information to make the adoption process easier.