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Preet Mandir gets new managing trustee

Preet Mandir gets new managing trustee
TNN, Aug 20, 2010, 01.47am IST

 
PUNE: Following the resignation of Joginder Singh Bhasin as managing trustee of Preet Mandir adoption agency, the board has unanimously agreed to appoint D P Bhatia as the new managing trustee.

A sitting trustee for the last decade, Bhatia is a 1952 graduate in electrical engineering and belongs to the Indian Inspection Service-Engineering Service Cadre, Government of India. On his appointment, Bhatia said that he had accepted the responsibility of running the activities of the foundation at this critical juncture' with great humility.'

Former managing trustee Joginder Singh Bhasin was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged involvement in an inter-country adoption racket', though he was subsequently released on bail. It is not known as to why Bhasin resigned.

Read more: Preet Mandir gets new managing trustee - Pune - City - The Times of India

Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin
ACT CASE Preet Mandir

Family's 14 year long trauma ends (video)

Family's 14 year long trauma ends 20 Aug 2010, 0907 hrs IST
14 years after they were separated, teenagers Miquel & Melissa were re-united with their parents in Kanyakumari. They were given up for adoption illegally by an agency in Chennai in 1996.

Dekla Selvan has spent the last fourteen years in agony... waiting for this one moment to get a glance of 19 year-old Melissa and 18 year-old Miquel, her two children who were given up for adoption illegally.

Talking about the incident, Dekla Selvam said, "My children were sent to Netherlands without my knowledge. We have been searching for them ever since. We are so happy that they have come to meet us now."

Deklas children were amongst the 300 odd children given for illegal adoption by an agency in Chennai. After 14 years of relentless battle by their mother, the children have to come to meet their family.The only communication all these years was a letter written by Melissa to her mother.

Perhaps more than the mother, it is the children whose heart wrenching ordeal has to be heard to be believed.

ACT CASE Declah

Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet

Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet

Jaya Menon, TNN, Aug 20, 2010, 04.19am IST

CHENNAI: "I am happy. I am with my real family now," 18-year-old Miquel said on Thursday after an emotional reunion with his family in Kootapuli, a fishing hamlet near Kanyakumari. It's a far cry from the beautiful seaside town of Middelburg in The Netherlands where he lives with his 19-year-old sister. But for Miquel and Melissa it was an homecoming they had been dreaming of since they came to know they had a family in India.

Residents of Kootapuli gathered outside Dekla's humble one-room house in the colony, rebuilt after the 2004 tsunami, as the two teenagers arrived from Kanyakumari, accompanied by their Dutch mentors. They arrived in Tiruvananthapuram on Wednesday before driving down to Kanyakumari for the grand reunion. With tears pouring down her face, Dekla greeted her two children with the traditional aarti', hugging and kissing them. "I am so happy. They are gifts from god," she said. While Miquel could speak English reasonably well, a tearful Melissa could communicate only in Dutch. But everything her children spoke was translated into Tamil for Dekla.

In 1996, Dekla, unable to fend for seven children, her husband having deserted her, handed over two of them, five-year-old Amala Loody Lisa (Melissa) and four-year-old James Kapil (Miquel) to an orphanage run by an adoption agency, Malaysian Social Service in Chennai, on the assurance they would be sent back to her when they turned 18. But, the agency gave the children in adoption to a Dutch couple in Netherlands without informing Dekla. Subsequently, their foster parents separated legally and the children were placed in a government home. After a child trafficking scandal linking the adoption agency broke out in 2005, for Dekla it became a desperate search for her children. She finally heard from them two years ago with the help of activists. It took another two years for her to see her children again.

ACT CASE Declah

Preet Mandir: mother says gave child for institutional care, not adoption

Preet Mandir: mother says gave child for institutional care, not adoption

An HIV positive woman from Pune has approached the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), alleging that her 11-year-old child was given up for adoption from Preet Mandir even as she had not relinquished the child. The CWC will submitting the affidavit to the CBI for further investigation. The woman said she had given her child for institutional care and not adoption.

Indian Express 20.08.2010

ACT CASE Preet Mandir

Oh baby - Authors call for international reform in an assessment of Vietnam’s adoption system

Oh baby 
Last updated: 8/20/2010 9:00 
Authors call for international reform in an assessment of Vietnam’s adoption system

Two foreigners carry Vietnamese children down De Tham Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Experts have called for increased efforts from Vietnamese and foreign authorities to the ensure legality of Inter-country adoptions.
Experts have called on international authorities to reform Inter-country adoption practices to ensure their legality.
The recommendations were made following an assessment of Vietnam’s adoption system released on August 11. The assessment was carried out by Hervé Boéchat, Nigel Cantwell and Mia Dambach of International Social Service (ISS).
The study was commissioned by UNICEF Vietnam and by the Department of Adoption of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. The study was commissioned to identify and address problems in both the domestic and Inter-country adoption processes, with a view to assisting Vietnam in its preparations to accede to the 1993 Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption.
Inter-country adoption from Vietnam began in the 1970s and an average of 1,000 Vietnamese children have been adopted each year by families in the US, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, according to ISS.
In June, the central legislature passed adoption laws scheduled to take effect in January of 2011.
The authors of the ISS study, which began in May 2009, have made detailed recommendations to Vietnamese and foreign authorities as well as international adoption agencies.
The findings urged Vietnamese authorities to establish a proper system of data collection for children in need of adoption and undertake an assessment of the root causes of child abandonment, relinquishment and separation. The causes should then be addressed through social services such as support for single mothers, family counseling, and social assistance.
Laws regarding parental consent for adoption should be clarified, the researchers found. Fees charged by official entities in Vietnam throughout the adoption process should be clearly itemized, regulated, and placed in the public domain, the researchers advised.
The report further urged increased involvement on behalf of adopting countries.
The researchers found that the governments and the central authorities of “receiving countries” have not effectively committed themselves to applying the basic principles of the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption (ICA).
The convention, which went into force in 1995, was aimed at the prevention of child trafficking. All signatory and ratifying members agreed that adoption should be a last resort. Every effort should be made to keep a child with its family before putting it up for Inter-country adoption, the Convention agreed.
But the ISS team found that authorities in “receiving countries” routinely fail to uphold the Hague principles when dealing with non-Hague countries such as Vietnam.
Procedures for ensuring free and informed consent for adoption are inadequate and inconsistent, the researchers found. They further recommended that the embassies and central authorities of “receiving countries” enhance their contacts and cooperation with the Vietnamese central authority to determine the number and characteristics of children requiring adoption abroad.
Adoption agencies working in Vietnam have been urged to refuse to process Inter-country adoption applications for babies whose age at referral makes it improbable that sufficient care solutions for them have been sought out at home.
According to the assessment, the overwhelming majority of adopted children in Vietnam are under one year of age — the age-group most sought by prospective adopters. Vietnam belongs to a small and ever-decreasing number of “countries of origin” that offer children of this age for adoption abroad.
 
International Social Service (ISS), Unicef New York, International Social Service (ISS) - Germany
Vietnam

Sieg für Schweizer NGO im Kampf gegen Pädophilie

19. August 2010 - 13:43

Sieg für Schweizer NGO im Kampf gegen Pädophilie

In Kolumbien ist ein Sextourist aus Italien von einem Gericht wegen Kindesmissbrauch zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Es ist das erste Urteil dieser Art in Kolumbien und ein Erfolg für die Schweizer Kinderschutz-Organisation Terre des hommes.

Der 72-jährige Pädophile muss zudem eine Strafe von gut 30'000 US-Dollar bezahlen, wie Terre des hommes (Tdh) mitteilte. Zwei Komplizen des Italieners wurden zudem zu 10 Jahren Gefängnis und 14'000 US-Dollar Busse verurteilt.

Der Italiener hatte sich an mehreren minderjährigen Knaben vergriffen und sie mit Alkohol und Drogen gefügig gemacht. Ein 15-jähriger Junge kam nach einer Überdosis Kokain ums Leben, die er beim Sextouristen zu sich genommen hatte.

Terre des Hommes Switzerland, PEDOS/PERVERTS
Colombia

WA government apologises to unwed mums

WA government apologises to unwed mums

Angie Raphael

October 19, 2010 - 5:29PM

A woman who was handcuffed to a bed, drugged and forced to give up her newborn baby for adoption says an official apology has helped her regain her "selfhood".

The West Australian government on Tuesday issued a public apology to women who had their babies taken from them by authorities from the 1940s to the 1980s because they were unwed.

Australia

New Special Needs Policy from CCAA

New Special Needs Policy from CCAA

From the CCAA:

In order to improve on our online special needs program and focus on the placement of special needs children who have been on the “shared list” for over two months, CCAA decides to group some of the special needs children as “special focus children” (with a tag of “Special Focus” on their names in the shared list) so that special attention would be drawn to these children by adoption agencies and adoptive families. This will come into effect since September 1. Here are some clarifications on relevant issues:

 

  1. Adoption agencies will be able to search and retrieve information of special focus children through the online system, such as name, gender, age, province and welfare institute where they are from, and pathology categories. Agencies can also enquire children’s information based on their pathology and look for suitable families for them.
  2. After locking the file of special focus children, adoptive families have six months to prepare application files and send to CCAA.
  3. Adoption agencies may recruit families for special focus children according to families’ needs and the child’s health status. After getting the approval from CCAA, the file of special focus child will be posted on the individual list for the agency, who will be allowed three months to find families.
  4. Children who take part in Journey of Hope will all be included in the Special Focus category. Name list of these children will be decided based on discussions between CCAA and adoption agencies, or proposed by agencies and approved by CCAA. Children taking part in Journey of Hope basically come from the same orphanage, sometimes several orphanages as needed. Each session of Journey of Hope includes no more than 40 children. CCAA will post files of these children on the individual list of the agency and allow six months for placement.
  5. When the adoptive family is eligible for adoption, they are allowed to adopt two children within one year simultaneously or successively. They may apply to, as situations vary, adopt a healthy child and a special focus child, or a special needs child and a special focus child, or two special focus children, simultaneously or successively.
  6. When a family intends to adopt special needs children, especially special focus children, adoption agencies shall convey the true information of the child to adoptive families, help families prepare for the adoption, keep close monitoring on the adoption procedure and provide better post-placement tracking services, so as to protect the interests of adopted children and avoid occurrence of tragedies.

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Now, as to the interpretation of it. My interpretation, my best attempt at moving it from translated legalese to regular English:

The children who wait longer than two months on the shared list become Special Focus Children. A few requirements will be relaxed for these children.

  • Families now have 6 months instead of 3 to get a dossier together and to the CCAA after matching.
  • An agency can request to have a “Special Focus” child assigned to them so that they can actively search for a family for that particular child. The agency will then have that child’s file for three months. I assume this means the child will be removed from the shared list for those three months. I do not know what the agency will be allowed to do in order to “recruit” a family for this child.
  • I don’t believe this makes changes to the Journey of Hope program, but it is noted that the children in this program will be classified as “Special Focus” children. The biggest benefit that this classification will give is probably the ability to be able to adopt children closer than a year apart.
  • Families who adopt a Special Focus Child are allowed to adopt two children at the same time. The other child can be healthy, special needs, or special focus. They can adopt them at the same time, or they can do so within a year of each other, which is normally not allowed.
  • Agencies are tasked with making sure the family is prepared to parent the child, with closely monitoring things, and with providing better post placement services to protect the interests of the children.

I think this is a positive step to work towards helping the harder to place children find families. Agencies have argued that it is hard for them to focus on finding parents for a particular child because if another agency is doing so as well then by the time they find a family the child may no longer be available. They’ve argued that it is a better use of resources for agencies to not focus on the same hard to place children, that it would be better for each agency to focus their efforts on different children, as that gives a larger number of children a chance at a family. It appears the CCAA is responding to this, and I’m impressed.

There have also been the complaints that families in the NSN program often see a child they would be interested in adopting, but can’t be sure it will be a year before they get their referral. It will probably be a year, but who knows for sure? This will allow some of those families a little more leeway, and that is also a good thing. As a general rule the “wait at least a year before you adopt again” rule is a good idea, but to put it in place with no exceptions…. not so much. Especially when there are so many unknowns, timewise, in the program as it stands now.

I am very happy to see the last point, tasking the agencies with making sure the family is prepared to parent this child, and then keeping an eye on things, and offering more post placement services in general. I have a feeling that at some point we’ll see some official changes in this regards that will affect all adoptions, but for now I’m happy to see that this is on their mind.

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China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA)

"The Controversial Issue of Giving Children in International Adoption

"The Controversial Issue of Giving Children in International Adoption

Who will be the parents of child Feven, Meskerem and Bethelem when they will come to Ethiopia after twenty years?

This is interview is about child trafficking. The basis for this interview is the complain received by our production team from certain people against Better Future Adoption Services. We tried to discuss the issue with Mr. Assefa Demie who is the current representative of Better Future Adoption Services. However, he responded to us that since the problem which is said to be created has happened before he was employed for his current position, he could not answer such questions. And, he also told us that the person who know about this matter is the previous head. The production department sought for the person who is said to know about the issue and made him is said to know about the issue and we made him to be today's interviewee.

He is called Mr. Abebe Tigabu. He earned his first degree from Addis Ababa University in 1997. He worked for four and half years in a position of a prosecutor up to head of a department in Justice Bureau of Oromia. He taught Law in Rift Valley University College. He is also deployed in private Law Practice besides these activities.

He worked in a position of deputy Country Director for Better Future Adoption Agency until recently. We wish you good reading.

By Fanuel Kinfu.

The figure of Mr. Abebe Tigabu is here.

Sendek: How did you get into Adoption Agency related works?

Mr. Abebe: I entered in to this field by chance. While I was practicing Law in private, one of my client asked me whether I could handle a new file or not. I became willing and started to handle the issue of the file. The matter of fact of the file is concerning children who were being transported from Addis Ababa to Arsi Assela who were seized by Shashemene Police with their guardians based on the information it obtained.

The children were sent to an orphanage which is found near to Shashemene. And the guardians were made to stay in prison.

Sendek: What was the reason behind transporting children from Addis Ababa to Shashemene? What was the name of the organization who gave you this responsibility? What the contract you entered with the organization to solve this case?

Mr. Abebe: I didn't know at that time why the children were made to be transported to Arsi Assela. However I saw from a document that Addis Ababa Police Commission had confirmed that the children were foundlings and gave them to Betezata Children Home Association.

I think that is why Shasheme Police Commission filed an action by suspecting the child trafficking crime at that time. Therefore, I received this responsibility from Better Future Adoption Agency colleagues so that I could solve the problem in a legal means. And, the problem was solved by making the guardians to be free from prison as they were only obedient workers and were not required to be liable for the matter. And the children were also made to be returned to Addis Ababa .

Sendek: What I want you to elaborate for me is who was behind the transportation of the children from Addis Ababa to Assela. Why not such a body was not made legally liable?

Mr. Ababe: I think I told you me work. I am a lawyer. Accordingly, I don't need to get in to any other thing else except defending my client. I think it is the responsibility of shashemene police concerning who sent those guardians. The file that I was handling was also closed by court.

Sendek: How did you enter in to the Adoption Agency work position from your profession as a law year?

Mr. Ababe: I think Mrs. Agitu Wodajo delighted with the solved legal matter in the above stated manner. Accordingly, she pressurized me to join the Agency which she leads as a Director. I was mainly needed to make the work processes of the organization to be based on better legal frameworks.

After considering the invitation from all angles, I joined the agency as deputy director.

Sendek: What is giving a child in adoption, could you explain it based on the law and also the work position that you were holding?

Mr. Abebe: We can see about children who are given in Adoption from two angles. The first angle is if either the father or mother of the child is alive, it is proper to get the consent of such a parent before giving the child in adoption.

The live parent of the would be adoptee should stand in front of court and give ones consent concerning the adoption for the adoption to be approved.

The second angle is concerning the foundlings who are abandoned but found by people who brought them to police. Then the police shall notify the case to the nearby Women's and children Affairs office. Then, the Women's office shall write a letter to an Orphanage that could receive those children.

Then, the process shall be investigated step by step and be brought to the court for approval after it is presented to the Women's Affair Office.

Sendek: What is the relationship between the agency and the orphanage?

Mr. Abebe: The Agency is the agent of the prospective adoptive parents who are residing abroad. It is the institute which completes the process by appearing in front of the court. Orphanage is a staying place of the would be adoptees if is seen with adoption perspective.

Sendek: Can an adoption agency have an orphanage?

Mr. Abebe: Never, The Ministry of Women's Affairs prohibits this. However, and adoption agency may support some Orphanages. Especially, unique support might be given to the Orphanages that have work relationships with the specific adoption agency.

Sendek: What are the pieces of information that are recorded in the profiles of the foundlings?

Mr. Abebe: The time and place where they were found and the date shall be recorded. They shall be given names and certificate of birth shall be issued to them. The court files and other needed documents shall be included in their files.

Sendek: Based on the information received by our newspaper production department, child Feven was given to the Agency by her mother Mrs. Fozia Mohamed who brought her from Nazareth and delivered her to the agency. However, she was sent to USA without the knowledge of the mother. And, this happened while you were serving as a deputy director of Better Future Adoption Agency. What do you know about this matter?

Mr. Abebe: Of course, Mrs. Fozia Mohammed came from Nazareth and handed over her daughter to Mrs. Agity Wodajo. This happened as Mrs. Fozia didn't have the financial capacity to up bring her daughter and requested the agency to receive her daughter Feven give her in adoption. At that time, the Agency received the child after confirming her health condition.

Fortunately, at the time an American prospective adoptive mother requested the Agency to give her a child in adoption. She was by chance in Ethiopia at the time for her business affairs and while she was told that a child is found for her, she came and visited this child in the Agency. The American was happy with Feven and expressed her willingness to take Feven.

Sendek: However, the family of the child is complaining that the child was sent in an unlawful manner. They say that the child is sent as a foundling while her mother is alive.

Mr. Abebe: You know, the mother of Feven handed her daughter over to the Agency at the house of Mrs. Agitu Wodajo. And Mrs. Fozia Mohammed was told also to bring evidence from the Kebede that confirms she was a pauper. And she notified to the Agency at that time that she was processing the documents from the Kebede. However, Mrs. Agitu Wodajo was not happy with this. It was said that long time was given to Mrs. Fozia Mohammed to bring those documents and as she failed to do so and the adoptive mother of Feven needed her, another option was sought and the matter was done in that manner.

Sendek: I don't understand what you said "another option?"

Mr. Abebe: Even the incident was not also clear to me at the time a document was produced as if the child and abandoned and found in Jimma and the document was made in Jimma and sent to the Agency. Even she was given a name Feven Jimma.

Mr. Abebe: this matter disturbs me. Of course, if Feven comes to Ethiopia after 20 years, her profile in her adoption file says she is a foundling. Therefore, she doesn't know her biological mother.

Sendek: Is this not destroying the identity of Feven?

Mr. Abebe: I don't want to enter in to blind argument. It is correctly destroying her identity. First of all, I told you why I joined the Agency. It was to make their works done based on legal frameworks. But I couldn't. Accordingly, I have got conflict with the Agency.

Sendek: Not only this case, but we have information that says the children of Mrs. Frehiwot Tarekegn were also sent in this manner. Don't you know about this matter?

Mr. Abebe: Of course, I know the matter. However, I was not a deputy director at the time. But, this happened while Mrs. Frehiwot came to Ethiopia as a refugee. I know that I sent a document abroad which says child Bethelhem and Meskerm were foundlings who were abandoned and found in Jimma. Mrs. Frehiwot was repeatedly requesting the agency to know about her children.

Sendek: How can documents are issued to the children from Jimm

Mr. Abebe: I can't respond a sure answer for this question. Of course, most of the documents concerning the said foundlings are issued from Jimma.

This can be answered by Mrs. Agitu Wodajo and the Orphanage to which a letter would be issued to receive such children know about this matter.

Sendek: Therefore, don't you have any part in this?

Mr. Abebe: Yes. Anybody that investigates the matter can get the fact. There is no any document which is produced by me in this manner. If such documents are found to be done by me, I can be legally liable.

This manner of process was not wanted to be known either by me or other staff members. That is why I was made the seventh head of the Agency with in a time period which is less than three years.

We discussed this issue with the parents of the said children Mrs. Frehiwot Tarekegn and Mr. Tesfaye Gidebo

Mrs. Frehiwot Tarekegn came to Ethiopia as are refugee from Asmara . She came to Ethiopia with her husband. However, they were separated after some period time, she became responsible to up bring their children Meskerem and Bethelhem. Sine this responsibility was a heavy burden to her, she requested Future Adoption Agency Services for assistance.

Then the director of the Agency, Mrs. Agitu Wodajo became willing to receive the children of Mrs. Frehiwot to assist them. Mrs. Frehiwot was also employed by the Agency. Eventually she was asked to give her two children to adoption in the name of helping those children to adoption in the name of helping those children. Mrs. Frehiwot was in a great problem to make decision, as she could not stand the yearning for her children, if they go abroad in adoption. Eventually she gave her consent.

Sendek: How the children were sent in adoption?

Mrs Frehiwot: Nobody told me anything about the matter after I gave my consent. I was told on Thursday about the flight of my children, which would happen on Friday. Since I was shocked with the news, I could not do anything at the time.

Sendek: Were you not asked by the court to give your own consent by the court?

Mrs. Frehiwot: Never.

Sendek: then, in whose name were your children given in adoption

Mrs. Frehiwot: it was in the name of foundlings that they were given in adoption.

Sendek: How could you confirm about this?

Mrs. Frehiwot: After my children were sent to USA , I was dismissed from work. Then I directly went to Better Future Adoption Agency to obtain certificate of work experience. Fortunately, I saw the photocopies of the passports of my children. It was written on their passports that they were born in Jimma. Then I was shocked and went out with it.

Sendek: Then, where were they born?

Mrs. Frehiwot: It was in Asmara

Sendek: Was their father's name written?

Mrs. Frehiwot: There father's name was also changed they were registered as Meskerem Jimma and Bethlem Jimma. But their biological father is called Mr. Tadesse.

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He is called Mr. Tesfaye Gedebo. He is the brother of Mrs. Fozia Mohammed. After we asked him about child Feven issue, he responded to us. These all happened as I was a university student at that time, I was not able to support my sister and her daughter. The only options that we had at that time was to give child Feven in adoption. Fortunately, we were told by one acquaintance that Better Future Adoption Agency could assist us. Then, this person connected us with Mrs. Abebe Tigabu who was the deputy director of the Agency. Then he told us to bring Feven to Addis Ababa . Then we brought her to Addis Ababa .

"Then I and Mrs. Fozia went with Feven to the house of Mrs. Agitu Wodajo which is found in Gergi. Then Mrs. Agitu Wodajo and Mr. Abebe Tigabu received us. They asked us about the health condition of the child. Then she was made to undertake medical examination. Then Mrs. Agitu Wodajo and an American Woman received Feven from our hands. Then we were told that we had to obtain a document which shows that Mrs. Fozia is a pauper who doesn't have financial capacity to upbring her daughter.

Sendek: Then did you get the said document from the Kebele?

Tesfaye: of course we obtained a document that proves Mrs. Fozia is a pauper who did not have financial capacity to upbring her daughter Feven and we got this document from Kebele 11 Social Court.

Sendek: Did you submit this document to the Kebele at that time?

Tesfaye: While we want to the Agency to do so, Mrs. Agitu Wodajo had already evacuated from her first accommodation place which was found in Gergi. Even the telephone number we were given by the deputy director of the Agency Mr. Abebe Tigabu was not working. And Mr. Ermis Hailu who connected us with the Agency was not in Nazareth at that time because of business. And we had not adequate finance to come from and go to Nazareth again and again to investigate the matter.

Sendek: Then, was your relationship terminated in this manner?

Tesfaye: No. after Mr. Ermis Hailu came to Nazareth , we went to Better Future Adoption Agency headquarter with him. They told us another thing. They informed us that since they could not find us, they got evidence for the child from Jimma. We tried to investigate the matter and we confirmed that the child was sent to USA . Then we confirmed that our chance to get the child was narrow. Finally, we gave on the matter to God.

From the producer

We tried to discuss this matter with the Ministry of Women's Affair Public Relations Directorate Director Mr. Abiy Ephrem. He responded to us that he knows about the matter and he could not give us any response about it since the matter is under investigation.

If any stakeholder is willing to give response about the issue, our newspaper production department is opened to interview him/her/it. 

The Translator's Notice:

This piece of writing is translated from the Amharic Newspaper called Sendek, 5th year, No. 258 published on August 18, 2010 on page 12."
Agitu Wodajo, Rehila Abbas
Better Future Adoption Services, Bethezatha
Ethiopia

Filming of Wrongfully Detained, Depicting International Adoption Crisis, Begins in Guatemala

Filming of Wrongfully Detained, Depicting International Adoption Crisis, Begins in Guatemala
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 16 August 2010 20:02
Filming of the documentary Wrongfully Detained will start this week in Guatemala, the Both Ends Burning Campaign announced Aug. 16. The movie, scheduled for release in summer 2011, will serve as a catalyst in educating the public about the international adoption crisis.

The film will feature dozens of child development experts, adoptive families, prospective adoptive parents, and children from around the globe. Interviews and portrayals of the players in this broken system will artfully provide insight, depth and color into the problems strangling international adoption, while the sights and sounds of children in desperate circumstances will substantiate the term, "wrongfully detained."

Between now and the end of the year, the film's crew will travel to five countries to capture comprehensive evidence of the crisis. International adoptions have fallen by more than 50 percent in the last six years. This is the first of many major projects planned by the Both Ends Burning Campaign to reverse that trend, advocate on behalf of the world's parentless children, and create a concrete and lasting solution for international adoption.

"The stories of neglected children and discouraged families in this obstacle course of a system are so common they could almost qualify as an epidemic," said Craig Juntunen, founder of the Both Ends Burning Campaign and executive producer and writer of Wrongfully Detained. "Kids need families and families want to adopt them, but, increasingly, we can't make this happen. This is a tragedy affecting millions of children, and we are going to show the world about it."

The director of Wrongfully Detained is Thaddaeus Scheel, in association with Globox Media Group. The Both Ends Burning foundation will hold the rights to the film, and the campaign will receive all film proceeds. Updates on filming will be available on the Both Ends Burning web site (bothendsburning.org), Facebook and Twitter.

"Too many kids are wrongfully detained in living conditions that are deplorable," Juntunen said. "With this film, we will change that."

WEB SITE for more information: bothendsburning.org

 

http://www.vee2.net/entertainment/54-movies/6130-filming-of-wrongfully-detained.html

 

Tripp Baltz, Craig Juntunen
Both Ends Burning
Guatemala
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