President Kabila has declared a one-year moratorium on adoptions of Congolese children. Seven Belgian couples take turns in Kinshasa while waiting for permission to return to Belgium with their children. Hope is dwindling ...
Lhe summer 2013, Thérèse, a young grandmother, showed us the photo of her grandson, a little Congolese: “ Here is Harry, by the end of the year, he will be with us . "
Since then, the happy wait has turned into doubt, into uncertainties, and it is now sorrow that prevails: neither Harry nor the six other orphans in Kinshasa will fly to Belgium, not immediately in any case.
It was on November 30 that Madeleine, Harry's mother, arrived in Kinshasa, thinking she had reached the end of the "obstacle course". This had lasted seven years of a complex and meticulous adoption procedure.
You must be declared eligible as an adoptive parent, identify the child, verify if it is indeed an orphan and finally obtain a favorable judgment, in Congo and Belgium.