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Money plays too big a role in adoption

Published on : 28 August 2009 - 3:15pm | By Maurice Laparlière

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Google translation: Ping-Pong with a child's life Girl held in Germany, nobody's child Nicoleta Trif, whose daughter is held in a German family since three years, will not be brought back soon to her natural family in the village Giulvaz, Timis county. German authorities threw the cat in the yard of the Romanians and the Romanian authorities claim they can not bring the child back, because the German family refuses to repatriate. However, although the natural mother of the girl, Gabriela, was in Germany and has asked the little girl back even from Korina Biemuller-Meyer, a German citizen who illegally took the child to a farm in Germany since the age of 4 months. German and Romanian authorities have already promised in June that the child will be repatriated, but everything appears to be just a hoax to officials responsible for child's life. Five days after Jurnalul National reported this serious case of seizure of a Romanian child in a family of Bavaria, Susanne Kastner, vice president of German Federal Parliament, came on a private visit to Timisoara to document the fate of the girl... ===================================== PING-PONG CU VIA?A UNUI COPIL Feti?a sechestrat? în Germania, copilul nim?nui Mama adoptiv?, Korina Biemuller-Meyer, ?i feti?a românc? sechestrat? de ea Nicoleta Trif, feti?a sechestrat? la o familie din Germania de trei ani, nu va fi adus? prea curând înapoi la familia ei natural? din satul Giulv?z, jude?ul Timi?. Autorit??ile germane arunc? pisica în curtea celor române, iar autorit??ile române sus?in c? nu pot aduce copilul înapoi, pe motiv c? familia german? refuz? s? o repatrieze. de Mircea Opris 28/08/2009R?sfoie?te: 1 23938 vizite Imprim? E-mail Toate acestea, de?i mama natural? a feti?ei, Gabriela Gu??, a fost în Germania ?i ?i-a cerut feti?a înapoi chiar de la Korina Biemuller-Meyer, o cet??ean? german? care ?ine ilegal acest copil la o ferm? din Germania înc? de la vârsta de 4 luni. Autorit??ile germane ?i cele române au promis înc? din luna iunie c? feti?a va fi repatriat?, îns? totul se dovede?te a fi doar o p?c?leal? a demnitarilor responsabili pentru via?a minorei. La cinci zile dup? ce Jurnalul Na?ional a semnalat acest caz grav de sechestrare a unui copil român la o familie din Bavaria, Susanne Kastner, vicepre?edinte al Parlamentului federal german, a venit într-o vizit? privat? la Timi?oara pentru a se documenta despre soarta feti?ei. Astfel, la 5 iunie, atât vicepre?edinta Bundestagului, cât ?i pre?edintele CJ Timi?, Constantin Ostaficiuc, prefectul Mircea B?cal?, dar ?i directorul Direc?iei pentru Protec?ia Copilului Timi?, Rodica Negrea, au promis c? în cel mai scurt timp românii vor trimite un psiholog vorbitor de limba german? pentru a evalua copilul ?i pentru a-l readuce în România. De?i mama natural? î?i a?tepta copilul în iunie, Susanne Kastner a declarat c? ea s-a implicat personal pentru ca acest copil s? mai r?mân? o perioad? în Germania ?i s? nu fie adus imediat înapoi acas?, pentru a nu suferi un ?oc la adaptarea la condi?iile de acas?. La mai bine de dou? luni de atunci, lucrurile s-au schimbat radical, iar acum nici autorit??ile române ?i nici cele germane nu vor s? se implice rapid în repatrierea copilului, aruncând vina unii în ograda celorlal?i ?i închizând ochii la gravele înc?lc?ri ale legilor interna?ionale de protec?ie ?i drepturile copilului ?i de repatriere la cererea p?rin?ilor în ceea ce prive?te sechestrarea minorei Nicoleta Trif. NEM?II SE JUR? C? NU AU NICI O RESPONSABILITATE Autorit??ile bavareze din Bad Kissingen au fost luate prin surprindere de faptul c? reporterii Jurnalului Na?ional au revenit în Germania pentru l?muriri în acest caz. Aceasta dup? ce mai multe ziare germane au încercat s? vad? feti?a ?i s? ia leg?tura cu cea care o ?ine, Korina Biemuller-Meyer. Femeia refuz? îns? constant orice întrevedere cu presa ?i ?ine feti?a doar pe teritoriul fermei, proprietate privat? a familiei. Dup? mai multe bâlbâieli ?i telefoane între reprezentan?i ai Consiliului regional din Bad Kissingen ?i de la Protec?ia Copilului din aceea?i regiune, r?spunsul a fost unul incredibil. "Despre acest caz trebuie s? întreba?i la Consulatul român din München, pentru c? noi nu avem dreptul s? intervenim în acest caz ?i nici nu suntem implica?i în acest caz. Nici Departamentul de Protec?ie a Copilului din Bad Kissingen nu este implicat în acest caz, pentru c? nu este permis. Noi nu avem dreptul s? hot?râm nici dac? s? ?inem copilul în Germania. Doar Consulatul român din München", ne-a declarat telefonic dintr-un alt birou dr Anna Barbara Keck, consilier principal, prin vocea Gerhard Kauf, func?ionar în cadrul Consiliului Regional Bad Kissingen. Declara?ia este surprinz?toare, dup? ce mai mul?i func?ionari de la Departamentul de Protec?ie a Copilului din Bad Kissingen, în frunte cu Siegbert Goll, directorul de la Protec?ia Copilului, au cerut rela?ii în România, au depus m?rturie ?i au fost parte în controversatul proces privind posibila traficare a feti?ei din România în Germania.

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It took Heike Kramer and her husband 3.5 years and overcame many hurdles to adopt their first child from India. She is also involved in the Federal Association for Parents of Foreign Adopted Children.

Offenburg-Zunsweier. India - many people think of magnificent temples and Ayurveda cures, bright colors, exotic spices and the booming software industry. But very few people know the great need of many Indian children, especially the girls. Not so the Kramer couple from Zunsweier, they have two adopted daughters from the Asian country. TV show "14 years ago we saw a documentary about the fate of girls in India on TV," Heike Kramer remembers. Since then, the petite woman with a big heart has been helping needy girls in the former colonial state. "It was a gut decision back then, it was the feeling that we wanted to adopt a girl from India," explains Heike Kramer. For many people, adopting children from abroad is too much of a hassle. No hurdle was too high for Heike Kramer. The Kramers worked for three and a half years to finally be able to hug their daughter. "After all, they are not looking for children for parents, but parents for children," says Heike Kramer, explaining this difficult process. During this time, contact with the »Holy Cross« children's home in Delhi, India, began. At that time it was managed by a Heilig-Kreuz-Nurse from Hegne. This sister collected school fees for the girls in her children's home and thus made it possible for them to get an education. “A child in India can go to school for a whole month for as little as 5 euros,” explains Heike Kramer. This includes school fees, clothing, food, drink and travel expenses. »Girls who can read and do arithmetic have much better chances in India«, the trained pediatric nurse knows from her many years of commitment. "When Sister Hermann-Josef withdrew from Delhi in 2002, she asked me to continue the school fee project." Shortly afterwards, the sister died. In 1998, Heike Kramer met Norbert Scheiwe, who had founded the children's charity LUCY in Breisach and was able to personally use the money he had raised in India without any administrative costs. Together with Scheiwe, Heike Kramer then founded the Federal Association for Parents of Foreign Adopted Children. She still serves as treasurer on the board of this association. The association is a neutral information center for all questions relating to the adoption of foreign children. "There is a great need for information and many people often do not dare to ask the youth welfare office," says Heike Kramer. All of this is a matter of course for the 44-year-old: »I do it from the heart.« She spends countless hours voluntarily collecting money for girls in India. She has set up a donation account at the Volksbank in Offenburg (BLZ 664 90000, number 77 913 904, proof of sending is possible). Once a year, she brings the money that goes into this account by check to Norbert Scheiwe in Breisach, who then brings the sum himself or through another volunteer to the Holy Cross children's home in Delhi. “The flights to India are all paid for by the private individuals themselves. All the money arrives in full,” says Heike Kramer happily. Heike Kramer is just as proud of the new construction of the Holy Cross Children's Home in Delhi and shows a few souvenir photos of the construction. started in 2002 it could be inaugurated in 2008. Most of the money came from donations. “We have written to every parent of a Holy Cross child around the world asking for donations. A large sum came together.«

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Why more and more adoptive parents pass the orphans back to the orphanage

A saleswoman urgently needed a child. She quickly processed the paper work and came to the orphanage in Moscow region. The fact is that every eligible parent must bring a document that he/she has no criminal background record takes over a month this woman was able to get it in few days. Lena was a lucky girl who went to be with this woman because she fit the criteria. Unfortunately in less than a month poor Lena was back in the same orphanage. Initially this woman took Lena only because she knew that the state was going to give her some financial tax break as a result of doing some charitable work by adopting orphan Lena. However, Lena did not work out for this woman so she simply returned to the state institution as if she had borrowed a book from the library.

Such case is not a lonely one. The government officials or orphanage staff would typically say, “What can we do?! The responsibility to control how former orphans are being raised in a family is not my task.

Double orphan status

Humanitarian catastrophe is becoming to sound more frequently in the Russian society. Since when did we come to a point when thousands of former orphans who were adopted are now being returned back to orphanages?

The ASBL Tumaini (which means hope in Swahili) was created in Namur to help children living in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a question, first, of allowing children whose parents are deceased or unable to pay school fees to start their schooling and those who have dropped out of school to go back to school.

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The second objective of the association is the adoption of Congolese children abandoned following certain events, including war, in particular, and/or poverty. It was during a stay in her country of origin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, that Julienne Mpemba made a dramatic observation. In his neighborhood, many children do not go to school. In question: the financial impossibility for many of them to pay their school fees. “The Congolese State has disengaged from its obligations with regard to the care of teachers in public schools, a phenomenon which began in 1991, she indicates. The parents then assumed the responsibility of taking the place of the Congolese State by taking charge of the various costs demanded by the school administrators, of where the establishment of the system of support for teachers by parents. This system takes the form of the payment of a premium which varies according to the schools. In recent years, the Congolese state has made considerable efforts. But, in spite of an important intervention of the Government in the sector of education, one notes that many infrastructures are dilapidated, the school material misses, the number of teachers is insufficient”. More than 12 million children (ie more than one child in two), and particularly orphans, still do not have access to school. The second observation made by Julienne is the large number of babies and children abandoned, either because they are orphans, or because they are sick, or because of the poverty in which their parents live. Thus in June 2008, Julienne and eight other volunteers founded the association. The first objective is to help and encourage orphaned and/or poor children in the Congo to continue their studies, and allow them to flourish both physically and intellectually. The association also intervenes in the event of the illness of sponsored children and can extend support activities to parents and families through the micro-credit system. To help them in this task, you can sponsor the studies of a child, become a member of the association or provide financial assistance. In order to raise funds for Congolese children, Tumaini organizes this August 29 a show by Pie Tshibanda "I am not a wizard" at the Salle André Guisset in Namur. Julienne: 0477/88.58.41. www.tumaini.be.

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1. Very unusual and unprecedented circumstances have given rise to filing of these two motions, and the complex issues arising there from are required to be answered not only by purely legal approach but with human considerations and bearing in mind welfare of two minor girls. The facts to be stated in hereafter would unfold the traumatic experience suffered by innocent people involved in this episode and would also highlight the precautions which must be taken before declaring a child as 'destitute' under the provisions of Bombay Children Act, 1948.

2. Jamnibai is a resident of Village Chulane in Bassein Taluka of Thane District, and she was residing there with her husband and two minor daughters Gulab and Laxmi. Both Jamnibai and her husband were working as labourers collecting fire-wood from the nearby forests. Gulab was born on January 12, 1975, while Laxmi on January 2, 1979. On March 19, 1980 Jamnibai with her husband left for work early in the morning leaving the two minor girls in the house along with their third child, a 12 year old boy. Jamnibai returned back from her work late in the evening and found that the two minor daughters were missing from the house. Jamnibai carried the search in the village and round about, but was unable to trace the two girls, and thereupon on the next day lodged missing report No. 10/80 with the Bassein Police Station. On March 20, 1980 at about 6.45 P.M. the two girls were found by a police constable attached to Gamdevi Police Station at Nanachowk, a place near Grant Road Railway Station in Central Bombay. The constable found the girls crying on the street and thereupon removed them to the police station at about 8 P.M. The girls were then sent to Remand Home at Dongari. On March 21, 1980 the two girls were produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate, Juvenile Court, Umerkhadi in accordance with Section 40 of the Bombay Children Act, 1948. The Magistrate directed that the girls should be kept in the Remand Home. The elder girl on being interviewed in the Remand Home stated that she hails from Bassein and the other girl was her sister. The elder girl also disclosed their names to the authorities of the Children Home. On March 27, 1980 the girls were shifted to Additional Observation Home at Mankhurd, Bombay. The photographs of the two girls were taken in Man-khurd Observation Home and on June 4, 1980 the girls were sent to Bassein to ascertain whether their parents could be traced. A report was made on the next date that it was not possible to trace the parents at Bassein.

3. In the meanwhile, Jamnibai with the assistance of D'Souza, a Social Worker in the village, inserted an advertisement in the local news-paper at Bassein about the missing girls, and also forwarded a letter to the District Superintendent of Police, Thane intimating about the missing of her two daughters.

4. From March 20, 1980, the date on which the girls were found by the constable of Gamdevi Police Station, both the girls were produced before the Juvenile Magistrate from time to time and were detained in the Observation Home at Mankhurd. On June 5, 1980, Mrs. Mrudula Rao, who is employed as a representative by the Family Association for Inter-country Adoption incorporated in Sweden, approached Juvenile Court for permission to ascertain whether any child in the Remand Home could be offered for foreign adoption and on permission being granted, selected Gulab and Laxmi for being considered to be given in foreign adoption. Mrs. Rao thereafter, as constituted attorney of one Lidrot of Sweden, filed Miscellaneous Petition No. 365 of 1980 for appointment as guardian of Gulab in accordance with provisions of Section 9 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, Miscellaneous Petition No. 452 of 1980 was filed by Mrs. Rao on August 20, 1980, as constituted attorney of one Eriksson of Sweden for being appointed as guardian of Laxmi. The necessary documents in support of the claim in the two applications were filed. Miscellaneous Petition No. 365 of 1980 was dismissed by a single Judge of this Court on September 17, 1980 on the ground that Gulab and Laxmi were siblings and they should not be separated. Miscellaneous Petition No. 452 of 1980 was withdrawn on September 2, 1980. Prior to this date, on August 4, 1980 the Juvenile Court had passed order declaring both the girls to be destitute under Section 45 of the Bombay Children Act.

5. Mrs. Rao, as constituted attorney of Bengt Ingmar Eriksson of Sweden, filed Miscellaneous Petition No. 570 of 1980 on October 8, 1980 for appointment as guardian of both the minor girls with a view to eventual adoption. Mr. Eriksson and his wife filed requisite papers expressing their desire to adopt both the girls. Application made by the proposed guardian was supported by Social Welfare Committee of Skurup, Sweden, the place where Mr. Eriksson was residing with his wife. The proposed guardian also produced other requisite documents to substantiate the desirability of his appointment as guardian. In accordance with the Rules framed by this Court, a notice of this application was given to the representative of Indian Council of Social Welfare and on December 1.5, 1980 the Indian Council of Social Welfare filed their representation expressing some reservation about the proposed appointment. After considering the representation, a single Judge of this Court allowed the petition on December 17, 1980 and granted leave to remove the two girls to Sweden. In pursuance of the order passed by this Court. Mr. Eriksson furnished the requisite bond and thereafter an application was made to the Juvenile Court to hand over custody of the two girls. The custody was handed over on February 10,. 1981 and Mr. Eriksson with his wife and two girls reached Sweden on February 21, 1981. On February 26, 1981 the Juvenile Court disposed of the two cases in respect of the two girls and numbered as Case Nos. 859/J/80 and 860/J/80.