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Wie zijn wij ?

Stichting Kinderhulp Congo (SKC) is een onafhankelijke niet gesubsidieerde Kinderrechtenorganisatie opgericht door enkele ondernemende idealisten. SKC faciliteert Overheden, Hulpverleners (NGO’s) en Universiteiten om onderzoek te doen naar snel inzetbare oplossingen voor de ruim 200 miljoen weeskinderen wereldwijd.

Missie en Visie
SKC streeft er naar de (groei van) van het aantal kinderen zonder ouders terug te dringen.door juiste toepassing en implementatie van hun rechten, zoals vastgelegd in het VN Verdrag inzake de Rechten van het Kind. Hierin staat immers vermeld dat een kind op hoort te groeien in een gezinsomgeving omdat dat het beste is voor de ontwikkeling van een kind. Verder is ieder land verplicht extra bescherming te bieden aan kinderen die niet in hun eigen gezin kunnen verblijven. Ze moeten dan zorgen voor een geschikt alternatief, zoals plaatsing in een pleeggezin of adoptiegezin (nationaal of internationaal) of als het noodzakelijk is een instelling voor kinderzorg. Ook staat er in dat het belang van het kind altijd voorop dient te staan. Helaas komen lang niet alle landen deze belofte na. SKC brengt op vrijwillige basis verantwoordelijke overheden, hulpverleners en wetenschappers bij elkaar. Zo kunnen we landen helpen bij het implementeren van deze Kinderrechten.

Het Verenigde Naties Comité voor de Rechten van het Kind ziet toe op de naleving van alle 41 bepalingen en controleert per 2 jaar. Het Comité, bestaande uit 18 leden, heeft haar interesse tot samenwerking met Stichting SKC uitgesproken. Na consultatie door het Comité is SKC gevraagd voorstellen te doen voor een samenwerking met de Verenigde Naties.

Om tot professionele dataverzameling en kennisuitwisseling te komen, zal SKC tenminste in elk werelddeel een RIOR (Regional Institute for Orphan Research) opzetten.In een nieuwe wereldraad komen overheden, ervaren hulpverleners (NGO’s) en academici samen om voor zowel korte als lange termijn alternatieven en oplossingen te ontwikkelen en aan de wereld aan te reiken. In Afrika zijn met een aantal regeringen contracten gesloten. In Gambia en DR Congo zijn de kantoren operationeel. Kenia, Burundi, Rwanda en Nigeria zullen spoedig volgen.

SKC is een erkend goed doel (not for profit , KVK).
SKC werkt met stagiaires en vrijwilligers(o.a.van Stichting UAF) en is een Ecabo gecertificeerd leerbedrijf. Voor 90 % werken we met personeel uit de landen zelf. Mede hierdoor kunnen we de overhead extreem laag houden.

Stichting Kinderhulp Congo

Persons: Maarten Brekelmans

Organizations: World Initiative for Orphans (WIO)

Who we are

We are an alliance of many of the wonderful and generous people who have adopted Russian children and made a part of their families in Ireland. We rely on them and their friends and family for the financial support to do our work in Russia.

Denis Rybakov, a well known Russian Lawyer, has dedicated the last six years of his life to assisting Irish couples to adopt Russian children. Denis was the first Russian committee member on the Irish orphanage Committee in Moscow. He brought an insight and a wealth of personal knowledge that he uses almost daily in his interaction with orphans.

Steve Rabbette, an Irish Businessman based in Moscow, he was for several years Chairman of The Irish orphanage Committee in Moscow. During that time he and Denis first worked in support of the kids in orphanages in Moscow. His role is primarily in fundraising and organisation.

Deirdre Costello, an Irish Businesswoman based in Dublin and the mother of a Russian son. Deirdre keeps in touch with all of our supporters in Ireland. She works continually for our charity and in support of adoptive and prospective adoptive parents in Ireland

We have Google Ads on each page. Each time an interested person clicks on one we get paid. It may be only pennies each time, but they all add up. It pays for our site.

Organizations: Ourchildren.ru

Current job

James P. Gagel

, a former Fulbright Scholar in Latin America, has practiced immigration law for 20 years, representing clients across the U.S. and throughout the world, with a focus on corporate immigration law. He represents American and foreign businesses in obtaining the most appropriate temporary and permanent work visas for executives, professionals, and other skilled foreign workers. Mr. Gagel also provides family immigration services of all types, and handles asylum and refugee cases before the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Courts. Mr. Gagel has lived and worked for several years in Latin America, and has held both General Counsel and high-level executive positions at corporations with international operations.

Mr. Gagel received his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School in 1982 and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University in 1977. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Inter-American Bar Association, the Florida Bar, the New York Bar, the District of Colombia Bar, and the New Jersey Bar. He is fluent in Spanish. Send him an email.

Persons: James Patrick Hamel Gagel

Une grave affaire atterrit au tribunal d'Alger

Une grave affaire atterrit au tribunal d'Alger : un réseau de trafiquants achète des bébés à des mères célibataires et les revend en France

2010.10.01 Wahiba Slimani/Version française Amel Adjou

Taille de la police:

Le rapport de l’enquête préliminaire a démontré que ce médecin est impliqué dans le déplacement de 25 enfants vers la France, et ce à partir de 1998, mais ce sont, en tout 36 personnes qui y sont impliqués, dont les mères célibataires, des Français d’origine algérienne, et une faune de trafiquants de tous bords.

Des sources dignes de foi ont affirmé à Echorouk que le dossier du médecin impliqué dans le réseau de trafic d’enfants illégitimes en direction de la France est ficelé et le mis en cause sera jugé cette semaine par le tribunal correctionnel de Sidi M’hamed, à Alger-centre, après près d’une année d’investigations policières. Cette affaire devra en principe dévoiler la face cachée d’un réseau dont on sait presque tout et presque rien. D’un coté, l’étendue et la gravité de l’affaire sont connues de tous, d’un autre, on n’en sait rien sur les coupables, les personnes impliquées en aval comme en amont. Tout ce qui a été dit en sous-sol à ce jour, ce sont des faits d’une extrême gravité, et qui consistaient en le « rachat » d’un réseau de trafiquants d’enfants chez des mères célibataires en difficulté, auquel ils achetaient leurs bébés moyennant des sommes modiques, avant de les revendre en France via un réseau spécialisé.

Countries: Algeria, France

Vivre en Famille - Programme SERA

Persons: Francois de Combret (Francois Polge de Combret)

Organizations: Children to France on Medical Visa, Vivre en Famille

Bulgarians Abroad to Enjoy Easier Adoption in Homeland

Society | September 30, 2010, Thursday

Bulgarians living abroad will enjoy an easier procedure for adoption of Bulgarian children. Photo by BGNES

Adoption of Bulgarian children by Bulgarians living abroad would be facilitated under amendments to the Family Code, adopted at first reading by the BulgarianParliament on Thursday.

According to the current code, the procedure is the same for Bulgarians living abroad and for foreigners living in Bulgaria – they need a permission from the Bulgarian Justice Minister, for which they have to pay BGN 50.

However, the Bulgarians living abroad have protested against the procedure, which is more complicated for them, and have demanded changes to the Family Code.

The amendments envision that people would not need a permission from the Justice Minister in order to be able to adopt a child from Bulgaria.

If adopted, the changes would be efficient with a backdate as of October 1, 2009 and would effect about 200 people.

The amendments also aim at changing some technical gaps in the Family Code, adopted in the end of the mandate of the previous cabinet, which exclude the possibility for spouses to have a common properties, acquired during the time of marriage.

According to the current rules, if the property is bought with the salary of one of the spouses, then it is "personally his/hers." The new rules, adopted on first reading, envision that "personal" would only be properties that are donated or inherited.

There will also be amendments to the part of the code, which defines dealing with the disposition of common properties.

The Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Group of the ruling GERB party, Iskra Fidosova, has announced that the text of the Family Code will be discussed and changed again before its final voting in the plenary hall.

Countries: Bulgaria

25-year-old man seeks custody of 1-year-old baby

25-year-old man seeks custody of 1-year-old baby

DNA / Mayura Janwalkar / Thursday, September 30, 2010 0:09 IST

Shivaji Kamble, 25, is a father of a one-year-old girl. Like any young father, he longs to hold his little one but from what he has stated before the Bombay high court, the apple of his eye has probably been given in for adoption to a couple without his knowledge or consent.

Kamble, who hails from Kolhapur, had married Madhuri Alavekar in 2008 with the consent of her family, Kamble’s petition in the high court states. However, when Madhuri was pregnant her father Maruti Alavekar took her with him forcibly stating that Madhuri was a minor.

Kamble has stated that he was then sent to jail and his wife was sent to a girl’s remand home. On May 13, 2009, Madhuri gave birth to a girl child but the child was given to Zilla Pariviksha and Anurakshan Sangathana, an orphanage.

Kamble’s petition states he was unaware of the birth of his child until he filed a petition before a magistrate seeking his wife’s custody.

He contended that his marriage with Madhuri was not annulled and he was her guardian under the Hindu Maintenance and Guardianship Act, 1956. He also stated that his wife had clearly stated that she wanted to live with him and not her parents. He said that Maruti had not said a word about the child until Kamble had set the legal process in motion.

The magistrate, however, dismissed Kamble’s application.

He then moved a sessions court in Kolhapur and sought action under section 97 (search of a person wrongfully detained) of Criminal Procedure Code. The sessions court was informed that the mother of the child had relinquished her on July 11, 2009 and she was accordingly given in for adoption under the Juvenile Justice Act. Holding that the Child Welfare Committee was right in doing so, the sessions court too dismissed Kamble’s application.

In his appeal in the high court, he has stated, “Just because the mother relinquished, does not mean the child is destitute and abandoned.” He said that he is still willing to take custody of his daughter and sought the production of his wife and child.

The court has directed additional public prosecutor Mankunwar Deshmukh to seek instructions from the orphanage about who the child has been given to and adjourned the case till October 5.

Countries: India

17 orphans suffer silently as adoptions halt at Preet Mandir

Source: DNA | Last Updated 04:09(28/09/10)Comment | Share

Pune: Seventeen innocent children from the Preet Mandir adoption agency here and their prospective adoptive parents have become the traumatic victims of legal complications over the past four months.

Ranging in ages from 1 to 11 years, the adoption procedures of these children by foreign couples have come to a standstill.

The complications began after May 20 when the Central Adoption Resource Authority (Cara), the government's apex body on adoption issues, revoked Preet Mandir's inter-country adoption licence in response to the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) probe into the alleged malpractices at the agency.

Organizations: ACT CASE Preet Mandir, ACT Case Ronghe vs Anjali Pawar

Persons: Jyoti Ronghe

Adoption conference drafts 21 guidelines

News

By DONAL O'CONNOR , STAFF REPORTER

Posted 19 hours ago

Putting the needs of children and families first and acting in culturally appropriate ways that respect the sovereignty of countries are among 21 broadly based recommendations stemming from an inter-country adoption summit held in Stratford.

Conference co-chairperson Robert Ballard, associate chairperson of the speech communication program at the University of Waterloo, urged researchers, government and adoption agency representatives to use them as the basis for further dialogue and action.

Although there was not necessarily even majority agreement on the recommendations, Ballard said there's broad agreement that significant changes are required regarding inter-country adoptions.

Draft recommendations resulting from roundtable discussions include providing better support for birth families, more preparation for adoptive families and giving more attention to histories -- including medical histories -- of children up for adoption.

Consensus from roundtable discussions included a call for improved communication with international agencies such as UNICEF and a suggestion there needs to be longer list of countries-of-origin for adopted children.

Recommendations call on agencies, governments and families to respect the Hague Convention standard even for non- Hague adoptions.

The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter- Country Adoption is the accepted international standard for adoption practices.

Canada is one of 85 signatories, although the convention is not legally binding.

The convention's main goals are to protect the interests of adopted children, standardize processes between countries and prevent child abuse, such as trafficking in children.

In an interview, Ballard emphasized that dealing with adoption -- a process that involves millions of dollars, hundreds of people and "an infinite number of agencies" -- is extremely complex.

"There isn't one simple answer to it."

Summarizing the thrust of the recommendations, Ballard said there needs to be more communication and collaboration among countries as well as "an increased level of trust and respect for cultural differences and sovereignty."

Developed nations have the money and often set the agendas, he said, but need to respect what nations such as Haiti, Vietnam or Ethiopia are doing.

Attention often is given to the adopting families because they are the ones pushing the adoption, he said, but there needs to be better education and support for the birth parents and for adoptees.

Ballard said the UW conference in Stratford is the first he knows of that has brought so many parties together having an interest in adoptions and where the organizer does not have a vested interest.

Ballard was himself adopted from Vietnam in 1975 at the conclusion of the Vietnam War and grew up in the U.S.

doconnor@bowesnet.com

Organizations: The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and International Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS)

Persons: Bert Ballard, Trish Maskew

An evil pair try to sell baby for Dh203,442

Baby trade racket in the UK busted

Staff

Published Sunday, September 26, 2010

Countries: United Kingdom