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Expanding foster care changing Ethiopian communities

Ethiopia (MNN) — Bethany Christian Services’ successful foster care program in Ethiopia is growing. Currently, they serve in five cities and have a goal to expand their efforts to five more cities and place 1,000 children in loving, Christian homes by the end of 2023.

Their foster-to-adopt program began in 2010 and has already placed nearly 400 children into local homes.

Foster-to-Adopt in Ethiopia

“We basically believe that every child should be raised in a family and they need a family to belong to. The idea of taking care of children in childcare institutions has been there for a long time. It was one of the widely practiced form[s] of care for many years,” Bethany’s Sebilu Bodja says.

According to UNICEF, there are about 4.6 million orphaned or half-orphaned children in the nation. Children are often abandoned by their parents because they can’t afford to raise them. Other times, parents have passed away from diseases or the children have run away from home. Because of this, orphanages are packed and children receive little attention.

When Pain and Loss is Too Much

Behind the cheeky smile lies much hurt, sadness and vulnerability. Although I’m all grown up now, it doesn’t mean my pain has ever gone away!

I’m not usually one to vent my frustration and hurt on social media but here I go!! I am sick of living a life of pain and loss. Over the past few years, I’ve spent so much of my time in mental health facilities, I can’t even count them all. Every time I think I’m getting better, something shit brings me back down. You would think being in a mental health facility would enable you the care and support you need. I can tell you – it’s far from it!

I’m currently in a mental health ward and life feels like it has just fallen into a million pieces over 24 hours! I have disappointed my adoptive parents, affected reputations, lost friends and now feel like I’ve got to fight this battle on my own.

I’ve had several occasions where nurses come talk to me and they lecture me on my life! As an adoptee how dare they sit there and tell me everything’s going to be okay, that I am privileged and should be grateful for what I have!

I’m sure many other adoptees have had these statements said over and over again. How dare people who don’t know me lecture me about my life. They don’t know what it’s like to lose my birth family and have a million questions unanswered. So what gives them the right to be so judgemental?

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Jacques and Emily Rancourt have the kind of family you don’t see every day. Not only are they raising seven children—five through adoption—but most of their adopted children have life-threatening congenital heart defects. The Rancourts have spent so much time in cardiac care at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. that they and another couple started a charity for families of children in cardiac crisis.

“Lily can connect with these children in the hospital like no one else can,” Emily says of her 9-year-old daughter, whose remarkable story includes receiving a heart transplant at age four. “She’s using the gift she was given to the maximum. She blesses people everywhere she goes.”

This video, originally made for the American Heart Association, gives a glimpse of what Lily has overcome:

But according to Emily, their adoption of Lily and her four siblings almost didn’t happen. The Rancourts had always been interested in adopting, but when they started to research the process about ten years ago, they quickly became overwhelmed. “The process just seemed so complicated, and the cost seemed prohibitive,” Emily says. “We began to think, ‘Adoption isn’t for people like us.’”

Bombay High Court Mswc, Asha Sadan vs Carlos Abela And Maruska Abela ... on 6 June, 2019 Bench: B.P. Colabawalla

Bombay High Court

Mswc, Asha Sadan vs Carlos Abela And Maruska Abela ... on 6 June, 2019

Bench: B.P. Colabawalla

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

Bombay High Court Mswc, Asha Sadan vs Carlos Abela And Maruska Abela ... on 6 June, 2019 Bench: B.P. Colabawalla

Bombay High Court

Mswc, Asha Sadan vs Carlos Abela And Maruska Abela ... on 6 June, 2019

Bench: B.P. Colabawalla

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

Bihar Shelter Home Rape: SC Grants CBI 3 Months To Complete Investigation

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/cbi-bihar-shelter-home-rape-case-145463

Bihar Shelter Home Rape: SC Grants CBI 3 Months To Complete Investigation

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/cbi-bihar-shelter-home-rape-case-145463

Bihar Shelter Home Rape: SC Grants CBI 3 Months To Complete Investigation

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

Bihar Shelter Home Rape: SC Grants CBI 3 Months To Complete Investigation

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case.

The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case.

The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case

(i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC.

(ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes,

'I'm an American': Adopted by U.S. parents, deported to Brazil

NITEROI, Brazil — Paul Fernando Schreiner paces around a sparsely furnished room, swatting mosquitoes from his arms and neck as he wonders if today will be any different from all the others.

The heavy, dense air of this city across the bay from Rio de Janeiro feels insufferable, nothing like the dry heat of Phoenix, where the 36-year-old had been living when he was deported by the U.S. last year.

Conversations are rare for Schreiner as he speaks no Portuguese and few people here speak anything but Portuguese. But language is only one issue: The food and even the sports Brazilians follow — Schreiner likes American football more than soccer — don’t feel right. Inside his head, every day is a fight against boredom, loneliness and desperation.

“I am anything but Brazilian,” said Schreiner, who was adopted from Brazil by a U.S. family three decades ago. “I am an American.”

The U.S. government disagrees, underscoring the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal residents deemed deportable.