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Foreigners queue for Bulgarian patients sick children

International adoptions have increased several times

Sofia. Nearly 1200 disabled children waiting to be adopted. The kids are diagnosed with severe physical and mental illness or high age. For 66 already given consent for adoption abroad, the procedure is for 21 open, 78 have submitted applications and the rest are still waiting. Data were exported to the National Conference for adoption. According to statistics, during the last year Ministry of Justice consented to the foreign adoption of 220 children aged 7 years and with health problems. International adoptions of children have risen at times. Many great is the desire of foreign adoptive parents to adopt Bulgarian children who have health problems. Said Justice Minister Margarita Popova. According to statistics, Americans are those who choose Bulgarian children who do not see, hear not, Down Syndrome or hydrocephalus. Bulgarians choose Swedes do with less severe disease. Older children usually go to the Italian families. At the conference attended the 5-year Elina, who is injured feet. Her adoption procedure started in November 2009 and ended on 22 March this year Her adoptive mother is from the USA. According to Deputy Minister for Daniela Mashev incorrect and incomplete reporting of medical information is difficult process of identifying suitable adoptive parents. There were also cases where it appears that the child has a disability only documents.

Countries: Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden, United States of America

Paper orphans (The Kathmandu Post):

Anita Krishnan

MAR 23 -

I have had opportunities to work with institutionalised children, and somewhere a question that always hung silently was: “what end does institutional care hold for the children?” Not that I left it to silence. As a student I talked about it, among friends we discussed it and once I even wrote a paper on the topic. Though it still bothers me, in the last few months I have hardly given it any consideration.

Recently, Terre des Hommes International Federation screened a film called ‘Paper Orphans’, which traces the practice of inter-country adoption and it raises questions not only about the adoption process in the context of Nepal, but also raises concerns about protection of children and institutionalising them at large. Shown in the film is the reality of a mother, Badoma Sharki, from rural Humla who sent her son to urban Kathmandu in order to receive a good education — her son, Kishan, never returned. Rather, her son had been adopted by a Spanish woman who believed (as she had been told and legally verified through official documents) that the boy’s entire family was dead, which in reality was far from the truth. The adoption process was carried out through an orphanage that has been running on the grounds of protecting the rights of children.

As Joseph Aguettant, delegate to Nepal for Terre des Hommes explains, here in Nepal, orphans are ‘manufactured’. Kishan and many others like him who are not actually orphans are manufactured as orphans on paper, and based on that, their fate unfolds. Who do we blame for this — the poor parents who aspire to see their child receive an education and a good upbringing in urban Nepal, the new parents who travel to Nepal to adopt a child to call their own, or the children themselves who don’t have a clue to how their life has been reshaped? Or how about blaming the system, the unfathomable laws or perhaps even oneself for not being able to see such situations as they actually are or having the courage to respond to it? Where is the answer?

Child protection is a matter of serious concern. The concept of foster care has not found firm grounds in Nepal in the way that it has in Western nations, but does that mean we should leave the lives of our innumerable children in limbo? Adoption is not a bad idea, but when it is carried out it should be clear that we have to find a family for a child, not find a child for adoptive parents, especially the way it is being done in the present scenario. In Nepal, we strongly believe in family ties and the importance that family plays in a child’s upbringing and such acts just cannot be overlooked. We cannot allow the tradition of paper orphans to take root.

Organizations: Helpless Children Protection Home (Rani Bari, Kathmandu) (HCPC), Terre des Hommes Switzerland, Bal Mandir, Nepal, Education Centre for Helpless Children (ECHC), Nepal

Countries: Nepal

Supreme Court will hear the case of illegal adoptions of Russian children by the British ...

04/23/2010

At the same time ... with consultation of the delegation from the United States with the Russian authorities on adoption

Russia has continued to increase degree perturbations associated with frequent tragic fate of Russian children adopted by foreigners. Business can reach a moratorium on adoptions by foreigners young Russians. The situation is so serious that is going to Moscow delegation from the United States for consultations with the Russian authorities on adoption.

Along with the advice of Americans held before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the complaints of relatives of illegal adoption of Yekaterinburg boy asking him to reconsider the decision on adoption, a married couple from the UK. Adoption took place on forged documents of consent to the adoption of relatives.

Countries: Russia

Duped by Indian adoption agency, US family cautions couples

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By Sugandha Pathak

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) US-based Desiree and David Smolin were elated when they adopted two girls from Hyderabad. But their happiness was shortlived. Within weeks, the couple discovered that their two lovely daughters were not orphans, but victims of child trafficking.

That was 12 years ago. The Smolins now operate a website, in which they have catalogued international adoption injustices and offer advice to adopting parents, based on their own experience.

Organizations: ACT CASE Smolin

Report from Brussels: Amici dei Bambini Petition rejected, Romanian adoptions to remain closed

Organizations: Amici dei Bambini, TIMELINE WHISTLEBLOWER ROELIE POST, European Parliament

Countries: Democratic Republic of The Congo

Persons: Patrizia de Luca

Former adoption director avoids prison by paying up

By Alexandra Zayas, Times Staff Writer

Published Monday, March 22, 2010

Times staff

TAMPA — The former director of a Tampa Bay area adoption agency who admitted bilking prospective parents will avoid prison time.

Persons: Debra West

Countries: United States of America

Organizations: Adoption By Choice (PA)

150 Arunachal kids trafficked in 4 years

Mid-Day.com, Sunday March 21, 2010, Itanagar

Image courtesy: Mid-Day.com

Over the last four years, 150 children from Arunachal Pradesh have been trafficked to Phuntsok Choeling monastery in Kathmandu with the promise of a better education. As recently as last month, six of the 150 children have been reported missing from the monastery, located in Swayambhu.

The children were reported to have gone missing after one of them telephoned their parents in Arunachal, in the first week of February 2010, complaining about the cruel treatment meted out to them at the monastery.

Countries: Nepal

Jennifer's kids want their mother back

Jennifer's kids want their mother back 21 Mar 2010, 0932 hrs IST TIMES NOW first showed you the story of Jennifer Haynes, who was sold to foreign parents at the age of 8 nearly 20 years ago and then deported to India in 2008 for having faulty adoption papers. Now, TIMES NOW has tracked her children in Chicago and they have just one wish -- to be reunited with their mother. For over two years, Jennifer Haynes has been living alone in Mumbai. Jennifer's only demand is to go back home and be with her children. She says, "Everyday I am without my children. Everyday I struggle, sit at home with nothing to do. All this definitely hurts me." Following her story, TIMES NOW went to meet her children back in Chicago. Six year old Kadafi and five year old Kassana live with their grandmother, while their father i.e. Jennifer's husband is away studying. The kids have not seen their mother in close to two years, ever since she was deported and thrown out because the Adoption Agency -- Americans for International Aid and Adoption -- never bothered to get her paperwork right. Her birth parents failed her and a flawed system too failed Jennifer. However, the children, who do not understand these legalities, just want their mother back. Kassana says, "I want mummy back. We miss her and love her."

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Countries: India, United States of America

Organizations: ACT CASE Jennifer Haynes

Malan Breton’s inspiration came from Hudson

Published March 21, 2010, 10:20 AM
Malan Breton’s inspiration came from Hudson
While visiting the Hatch family for Christmas, New York fashion designer Malan Breton, who is a family friend, was so moved by what the family shared with him, he changed the theme of his February Fall 2010 Fashion Show.

By: Margaret Ontl, Hudson Star-Observer

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Emerson Hatch led the models out for the finale of Malan Breton’s February fashion week show. Photo by www.garyjcooper.net
Talk about it While visiting the Hatch family for Christmas, New York fashion designer Malan Breton, who is a family friend, was so moved by what the family shared with him, he changed the theme of his February Fall 2010 Fashion Show.
“He asked if he could see the clothes and artifacts I have saved and collected for Emerson,” said Angelique Hatch. Emerson was born in Hyderabad, India, in 2000 and after a long adoption process she joined the Hatch family on March 5, 2002. “When I think about the little girl who came, she couldn’t sit up or walk and she was two years old. It is amazing.”
After looking at Emerson’s collection including her scrapbook, which mom has been creating for her, Breton, called back to New York to say he was changing the theme of his fashion show.
And change he did. Breton was inspired by Emerson’s journey and the beauty of her native the India: the fabrics, beadwork and culture. The show, which had fashion critics offer high acclaim, opened with nine-year-old Emerson Hatch performing an Indian dance she learned at The Phipps Center for the Arts. During the show Bollywood dancers performed and American Idol contestant Anoop Desai sang his world premiere for the finale during which Emerson led the models.
“It was an event bursting with Indian culture,” said Hatch. “Emerson visited with Anoop Desai backstage.” For the Hatch family this was Emerson’s big day and a once in a lifetime experience.
Fundraiser
During the adoption process Angelique Hatch became friends with the founders of Care + Share India, an organization which helps homeless children in India.
“Even a small amount can make a profound difference in their lives,” said Hatch. “Just think the impact we could make if everyone in Hudson gave $10.
“Malan is involved in this cause with me,” said Hatch. “He promoted it at his show and after party.”
The unique organization helps children in India.
For more information or to donate online, go to www.careshareindia.org
Locally, Angelique is holding a fundraiser for Care + Share India on April 30 at the Hudson Golf Club. Tickets are $30 per person or $50 per couple. It will include a silent auction, appetizers, cash bar, keg beer and live music.
For more information, call Hatch at (612) 804-6518 or e-mail her at

Persons: Angelique Hatch

Organizations: Care + Share USA Inc.

Three children from the BRESMA orphanage are headed to Guadeloupe

Three children from the BRESMA orphanage are headed to Guadeloupe tomorrow morning. The French government is sending children people they know and sending them to meet their parents in Guadeloupe. I offered to send our people and pay our own way there and back but they refused. I felt the children had already been severely traumatized and did not need more trauma in their lives right now. What would it have hurt to let some of the American staff go with the children? Please pray for the children and their travel. Pray that they will see this as a wonderful adventure and not a nightmare! GLA has one little girl, Nadege, ready to travel to France but since they would not let one of us go with her to Guadeloupe, her mother is coming to GLA to take her child home.

Organizations: Bresma, Haiti, God's Littlest Angels (Haiti, orphanage)

Countries: France