BEB expands Africa Operations to equip Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania with technology solution

Plano, Texas – Texas-based software non-profit BEB takes another step of remarkable growth by announcing expansion of its Children First Software (CFS) into four additional African Countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania.

BEB began Africa operations in Uganda five years ago and today over 10,000 children are registered in CFS. Further, over 1,000 children have been placed from institutions into families, primarily through reunification with biological family members. Uganda is proving how CFS can accomplish BEB’s mission to equip a country to change its child welfare system. The Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD) now requires children’s homes to use CFS to track children’s identities, stories, and paths to families in order to receive licensing from the government. MGLSD Permanent Secretary Aggrey David Kibenge shares, “We are excited about the roll out of all the system modules to the entire country and children’s homes [of Uganda]. We are also looking forward to the building of capacity of our social service workforce who are key stakeholders in the implementation of the system.”

This progress for the children of Uganda is making an impact for other children of Africa as the success of CFS is attracting new partners to begin implementing the software. BEB Africa Regional Manager Kenneth Ayebazibwe shares, “The implementation of Children First Software in Africa is an integrated child service especially for children living in institutional care. With digital profiles of vulnerable children, government and NGOs will provide coordinated and monitored services across the African continent.” In Ethiopia, the leader of the Sele Enat NGO discusses the lack of statistical data regarding the children they have served for over 20 years. He says, “It was time-consuming and challenging to know statistics like the number of orphaned or abandoned children. But CFS has made that an easy task that only takes a few minutes.”

In Nigeria, BEB initiated the first pilot training last week with 12 child welfare organizations that are committed to use the software in their homes. Malawi and Tanzania are next to begin training and roll-out of the software in their children’s homes. BEB teams in each country will work alongside these partners to ensure all paper records on children are converted to create digital identities for boys and girls under their care. Simultaneously, BEB will train its partners to use all five software modules which help decision makers realize and execute the best family placements for the children.

The WCD ministry said adoption orders have been issued in 361 cases after the rules were amended to empower district magistrates to issue adoption orders.

NEW DELHI: A total of 589 children have been adopted after the notification of the new adoption regulations in September that empower district magistrates (DMs) to issue the adoption order, the union ministry of women and child development (WCD) said on Tuesday.

Under the Adoption Regulations 2022 issued on September 23, DMs and additional DMs were given the power to issue adoption orders under Section 61.

“A number of adoption orders have been issued by DMs all over the country during the last two months soon after notification of the Adoption Regulations in the month of September 2022. On the date of notification, 905 adoption orders were pending with the courts. As of date, the pendency has come down to 644. In 361 cases, adoption orders have been issued. The first adoption order was issued by DM, Akola, Maharashtra on 6 Oct 2022,” the ministry statement said.

The ministry said prospective adoptive parents (PaPs) can now opt for their home states or region under the new norms.

Aditi Tandon

New Delhi, December 6

Foster families will no longer have to wait for five years to adopt a child. The process will now take two years, thanks to a Centre’s decision to ease adoption rules for foster families.

Rules amended

District magistrates start issuing adoption orders under amended Juvenile Justice Rules, 2022

The Netherlands has decided to shorten adoptions from abroad. This is due to insufficient supervision of situations such as child theft, child trafficking and unethical conduct by officials. This is a very drastic measure for future adoptees.

In this Dutch Desi episode we talk to Minakshi Baigum . Who was adopted as a child from the Indian orphanage 'Bal Anand'. Minakshi has been looking for her parents, her family and her entire history for 14 years.

The topics discussed during this episode are her adoption process, her emerging company: Adoption Advice Bureau NL and her view on the drastic measure.

Interviewed by: Alyssa Bhawanidin

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Das Glück begann am Schwarzen Meer

Eigentlich wollten sie nur eine Tochter, aber dann wurden es doch zwei...Familie Herrmann berichtet über die Adoption ihrer beiden Töchter aus Rumänien.

Autor: Gabriele Möller

In diesem Artikel:

Erste Begegnung bei 50 Grad in der Sonne

Craig Juntunen, the most dangerous man nin Adopton Land

Speaking of Gladney., as I did the other day…

…guess who’s shilling for Dame Edna!.

None other than the most dangerous man in AdoptionLand today, Craig Juntunen, founder and president of Both Ends Burning. and producer of Stuck, a film on the “orphan crisis” constructed to make your heart bleed and fill BEB’s pockets full. of sob story money for child harvesting..

On Wednesday October 9, Juntunen will keynote the annual New York Metropolitan Gladney Family Association fundraiser/cocktail party at the University Club in midtown. . (Gladneyators drink? WWHSD? What would the home studier do?)

The first in a series of programs on searching, with a focus on search angels, birth searches, and the difference between domestic and intercountry adoptees in finding their own truths.

Join Lynelle Long of Intercountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) and Annette O’Connell of Adoptees United for an introduction to search, not only for US-born adoptees but also for intercountry adoptees. We’ll discuss as many questions that you have, plus a few that we have already:

What should I know about the process even if I wanted to search?

What are the differences between a domestic (US-based) search and one involving a specific country and intercountry adoption?

What’s a Search Angel and how do I find one? What do they charge, or aren’t they supposed to be free?

Our fellow journalists at Le Monde Afrique , Laureline Savoye and Morgane Le Cam, have investigated for five years, with the cooperation of Kaourou Magassa, journalist for TV5 Monde, on the association Rayon de soleil de l'enfant etranger (RDSEE), the one of the largest approved adoption organizations in France and which is said to have been behind the adoption of more than 7,000 children around the world in the 1990s and against the wishes of biological families.

Mali, the Central African Republic, Madagascar, Haiti, Peru, Romania. So many countries affected by potential child thefts in the 1990s.

According to two journalists at Le Monde Afrique, the French organization RDSEE is behind the theft and adoption of children around the world.

A real child trafficking that would finally interest the French justice

On September 6, 2022, the Paris court finally called for the opening of an investigation for "concealment of fraud" after the filing of a complaint in June 2020 by nine French people adopted in Mali against their adoption organization and their former correspondent in Bamako: RDSEE and Danielle Boudault.

“Little is known about the course of a long-term foster placement,” says project leader Mieke Spek. Time to investigate long-term foster care as an alternative to adoption. That is why the research project 'Distance in Connection' has been started.

What if you are unintentionally pregnant and cannot take care of the child? "There is still a taboo in the Netherlands about giving up a child," says Mieke, researcher at the HAN Research Group Active Factors in Youth and Parenting Aid. In recent years, more attention has been paid to so-called distance mothers, mothers who had to give their child up for adoption. Their experiences and suffering went unacknowledged for many years. But adoption isn't the only option for unintentionally pregnant women. A long-term foster placement is also a possibility. There is not much knowledge about long-term foster care in that situation and the experience of (foster) parents and children with this. Mieke: "We also want to let these women and children have their say. Give them a voice. We have little insight into how this form of foster care works, so it's time to investigate this with the research project 'Distance in Connection'."

THE REASON: RECOMMENDATION

Every year, about 60 unintentionally pregnant women consider giving up their child. Of these, a small proportion are considering long-term foster care. This was also apparent from an earlier study ' Mother in one fell swoop, and again not ' by Radboud University in collaboration with Fiom about distance for adoption between 1998 and 2007. Among the 200 distance files there were already dozens of files of women who had been placed in foster care. passed over. This research resulted in the recommendation to map out the opportunities and bottlenecks when choosing a foster family. “In practice, we notice that there is only limited knowledge about the option of foster care after an unintended pregnancy,” says Sophie Bolt, researcher at Fiom. Fiom is one of the agencies that guides women with an intention to give up for adoption. Mieke adds: “With more knowledge and insights, even better information can be provided to unintentionally pregnant women.”

MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT FOSTER CARE

With the support of the EU Phare programme, CNA has implemented one of the most successful “social campaigns” that has been seen in Romania.

Many people are familiar with the slogan Don’t let your child be educated by the TV. According to an Omnibus Survey carried out by IMAS, the TV spots have been broadcast over 2000 times on the main Romanian TV channels.

Radio spots, outdoor banners, newsletters and brochures for adults and children have also been produced as part of this project.

The purpose of the campaign is to inform parents about the risks of “abandoning” their children in front of the TV. The full name of the project is Enhancement and Development of the Professional Expertise of the Romanian Audio Visual Sector (RO 2004/016-722.03.15.01)

In addition to the awareness campaign, CNA’s Phare project also implemented training sessions for CNA staff, organised conferences and study tours and commissionedmajor research studies.