Monday, January 12, 2015 will be exactly five years since Haiti was hit by one of the worst earthquakes ever. On Sunday 11 January, NCRV will broadcast a documentary about the hastily set up air bridge between the Netherlands and Haiti, with which more than 100 adopted children were rescued from the rubble and brought to the Netherlands.

After the earthquake of 7.0 on the Rigter scale that kills a quarter of a million people and makes 1.5 million homeless, contact with the children's homes where more than 100 adopted children live at that time is impossible, one of the houses is even partially collapsed. It takes a while before it becomes clear that the children survived the quake. More than half of the children have already met their adoptive parents-to-be from the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the brave plan arises to take the children away. An air bridge between Haiti and the Netherlands can bring the children to safety. A tough and exciting mission, in the chaotic conditions in which the country finds itself. But how do you organize such a thing?

Macky Hupkes, director of the Dutch Adoption Foundation knows how to charter a plane. The World Children's Association is joining this initiative. The children are picked up by Dutch marines by bus and transferred to Port-au-Prince airport by navigating through the devastated country. The atmosphere at the airport is tense, 'get the fuck out of here!', one of the soldiers shouts. When the plane takes off, the discharge comes. More than a hundred children start to cry. Macky Hupkes texts to the Netherlands: 'Close the doors, the most beautiful crying concert ever'.

In NCRV 2Doc The kids are OK, those directly involved tell their story. How did the adoption organizations get the governments of the Netherlands and Haiti to authorize this action? Was it ethically right to get the children to the Netherlands more quickly? How did the parents experience the news of the earthquake when they had already embraced the child they were about to adopt? And what about the children now?

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Motions for Resolutions (Rule 133 of the Rules of Procedure)

Coordinators recommended that the following motions for resolutions are not followed-up:

- B8-0004/2015: on setting up a European agency for the adoption of children within

the EU (Aldo Patriciello)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-549.330+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN

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Date: 15/04/16

International adoptions. In the first quarter of 2015 the decline does not stop:15% foreign children less adopted by Italian families

the absence of official data on international adoptions in our country, we have to resort once again to projections. The Commission for International Adoptions, which in the past made public the data per semester in July and for the whole year in the month of January of the year Next, so rather late.

Then as now we have to do for some time, we have to resort to projections, combining the data of the Authorized Bodies (unfortunately not all comply with the requirement to publish them, as required by the Guidelines of the Commission itself) with those provided in the countries of origin.

Adoptiekosten

Overzicht adoptiekosten 2015

BULGARIJE:

Bureaukosten: € 6.500,-

Vaste kosten: 400,-

Linda is a part of the Executive Working Group

Committee Member, created to draft and help pass

the bi-partisan Federal legislation “Children In

Families First,” and is Executive Director of

abandoned children’s international advocacy

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Teeven returns from Congo without adopted children

Posted on Dec 23, 2014 by Janene Van Jaarsveldt

State Secretary Fred Teeven (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/Jos van Zetten)

State Secretary Fred Teeven of Security and Justice returned from Congo empty handed. He was there to pick up children adopted by couples in the Netherlands.

Congo still refuses to let the 30 adopted children go to the Netherlands, the Volkskrant reports. Teeven only got a promise that the adoption process does not have to be started again. Teeven traveled to Congo to negotiate for the Dutch couples. In some cases they have been waiting for two years for a child that they have adopted.

Dec 21, 2014

Sentencing date set in adoption agency fraud case

By Brian Caldwell

KITCHENER — A man who ripped off an international adoption agency is scheduled for sentencing in February.

Rick Hayhow, 50, pleaded guilty last month to one count of fraud involving almost $87,000 in personal expenses charged on a corporate credit card to Imagine Adoption between 2007 and 2009.