The last chapter of Saroo Brierley’s life is perhaps the only portion that the general public aren’t yet privy to. After all, the first 31 years went out for public consumption when he penned his tell-all memoir A Long Way Home in 2013, and when British actor Dev Patel took his story not only to the big screen, but to the Academy Awards, too.

But what of everything that came after the happy ending? Well, that thirst to know what has become of Brierley – the Indian child who got lost so far from home that he wound up rehoused in Tasmania, only to go in search of his real mother two decades later with only a faint memory and Google Earth as guidance – can now be satiated. “I’m writing another book,” he tells The National. “It will be the sequel, and Mum’s writing the prequel.”

The sentence is rattled off, just like that, as if each of its components aren’t huge, lifelong achievements for most people. Oh, and there’s one more thing: his story is also being developed into a stage show.

Brierley, now 37, is in the capital this week for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, alongside other renowned authors flocking in from across the globe, such as Ben Okri and Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. The guest of honour this year is India, which is particularly poignant for Brierley. The impending additions to his oeuvre have not yet been officially announced, so he is understandably coy with the finer details.

What he is certain of, however, is how his story will end. “It will finish off with finding my father. I know where he is, but I just haven’t had the strength to finalise that point. It’s an individual thing that you do by yourself, there’s a lot of soul searching.”

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EASTERLOG: A NEW BEGIN

I didn't have to think long about the date of my last weeklog: it had to be Easter Sunday. Not only because the SP has always allowed me to write a purely personal blog twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, where the inspiration that I get from faith was allowed to resound. But certainly also because Easter is the ultimate celebration, which is also a new beginning.

In this month's Tribune, Jobien van de Rijt-van Keulen is speaking in the Left Front section, SP member since 2013 and she said it very nicely: "I live from the basic principle: for each other, for each other, with each other. I recognize that social both in my faith and in the SP ". It is the same for me: through the progressive movements in Christianity I became a socialist, and as an SP man I want to focus not only on the vertical axis of the cross, the worship of God, but also on the horizontal , the conscious life for, by and with others. And struggle together to tackle the negative forces in society, the ikke-ikke-ikke and the holy belief in the "market".

An organization wherever this comes together is the Salvation Army. I am mainly involved as a donor, but in addition to the work for the SP that will continue to come my way in the future, I think it would be wonderful to have time to actively start volunteering, for example. for an organization like the Salvation Army. It is nice to build a different world from far Brussels, it is just as nice to help people in concrete terms through local SP campaigns, but also through other voluntary work.

Through the Salvation Army, I also received the announcement that you could go to the Passion in Concert with a discount (yes, I will remain economical). And so I was in Ahoy yesterday, together with partner Kees, for an overwhelming evening. How well everything came together was clear from the opening and closing number: The World is Van Everyone. We have often sung it at SP meetings, together with the late Thé Lau. Because that's how it is: the world belongs to everyone, everyone belongs to the world. And that is why I will soon have to leave part of that world in July, and in particular the indestructible and always inspiring and challenging SP-Brussels team, but the world is bigger than Brussels. And there will be many new, beautiful encounters in and around Rotterdam. Think of it as a small resurrection, thanks to all the SP people who have made so special in recent years and who I hope to continue to see in the future.

Bavarian beauty with Indian roots

The Kissinger actress Sushila Sara Mai was adopted from an orphanage in Calcutta. On many television appearances, she benefits from her dialect.

Admits is the actress Sushila Sara Mai from the ZDF series "Marie catches fire" or "She seeks him" with Thekla Carola Wied. The Kissingerin was also in front of the camera for the "Kluftingerkrimis" "heart blood" and patron saint ". "I was very proud that I was allowed to play in two Klufting Crimes," says Sushila Sara Mai, who looks refreshingly normal with her jeans and yellow T-shirt. She is also proud that she made it to third place in the competition for the White Sausage Queen title in 2018 (we reported back then).

The 40-year-old with dark eyes is German - but her Indian roots are not to be missed. She lived until the age of three in an orphanage in Calcutta, which was headed by Mother Theresa. The Kissingerin even has some concrete memories of the nun, such as in her very Spartan decorated room.

How Sushila Mai came to Kissing

The Tsipras government on Thursday launched an online platform for child adoption and fostering.

The annoucement was made by Labour Minister Effie Achtsioglou and Alternate Social Solidarity Minister Theano Fotiou who said the new platform will handle applications for adoption and fostering, through which members of the public can apply to adopt or foster a child.

“Today we have put into action a law that was ‘born’ in order to serve children, which it will do since it is, in reality, the implementation of a law that was ground-breaking by the standards of social welfare in the country,” Achtsioglou said.

The ministers made the announcement while visiting the Attica Child Protection Services Section ‘The Mother’.

Achtsioglou said that citizens could also go in person to the social welfare centres in their area.

Days after an American couple decried that a three-year-old Kenyan boy whom they have been taking care of was taken away from their custody; questions abound as to the state of adoption in Kenya.

The Kenyan-based US couple, Matt and Daisy Mazzoncini, noted that the child was taken away from their apartment in Westlands on April 5 by 11 DCI officers and they do not know of his whereabouts hitherto.

This, they add, is despite the fact that the Children's Court in 2017 granted them legal guardianship rights to the boy who is reportedly said to be sickly and in dire need of surgery in the US.

Daisy, a British who holds dual American citizenship and has been working in Kenya as a volunteer missionary since 2016 maintains that the boy suffers epileptic seizures which require him to be on "anti-seizure medicine three times a day."

The incident has since triggered a debate with sections of Kenyans wondering; what is the legal position of adoption in Kenya?

Vandeurzen: 'Wie twijfels heeft over adoptiedossier, kan dat laten onderzoeken'

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Bron : Belga

'Wie vragen of twijfels heeft over zijn dossier of adoptieprocedure kan terecht bij de adoptiedienst of bij het Vlaams Centrum voor Adoptie (VCA). Zij kunnen inzage geven in het dossier en samen met de geadopteerden of de adoptieouders bekijken of en op welke manier er meer duidelijkheid kan komen. Indien nodig kan een onderzoek ter plaatse uitsluitsel bieden'. Dat zegt Vlaams minister van Welzijn Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V)

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17.04.2019

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TOKYO (Jiji Press)— The Justice Ministry has presented the Diet with a set of bills to expand the special adoption system to cover children under 15 years old, up from the current basic age limit of under 6.

The first revision of the system since its introduction in 1988 is aimed at helping children lacking proper care due to reasons such as abuse and poverty, according to ministry officials.

The special adoption system terminates legal ties between adopted children and their biological parents. The consent of the children is not required, and the names of their birth parents are erased from their official family registries.

But there are many hurdles to adoption under the special system. For example, the consent of biological parents is required and at least one of the adopting parents must be 25 years or older.

Thousands of children in Cambodia live in orphanages even though their parents are still alive. Some of the institutions exist solely to make money from tourists. Now, efforts are being made to reunite the families, but that is easier said than done.

Every morning at 6:30, the boys and girls of the Little Angels orphanage in Cambodia get to work, sitting at wooden tables set up in front of the entrance to ensure that passing tourists can't miss them.

For hours at a time, they use hammers and small chisels to punch holes in pieces of leather traced with delicate patterns. No one says a word as they work -- one of the boys has earbuds in his ears. The leather creations are traditionally used in Cambodia for shadow puppet shows, but here they serve as souvenirs for tourists. The larger works sell for as much as $700.

At around 11:00 a.m., a small tour bus stops on the dusty road in front of the orphanage. Little Angels is located not far from Angkor Wat, the World Heritage Site in Siem Reap Province, which attracted more than 2.5 million visitors last year.

Colorfully-dressed Chinese tourists pour out of the bus, drop some money into a transparent donation box, buy small heart-shaped leather pendants and give the children bags of candy. To show their gratitude, the youngsters line up and begin to sing songs, ending with the English-language classic: "You Raise Me Up." The tourists take pictures with their smartphones.