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Perú reabre el caso de la hija adoptada por Isabel Pantoja

8/9/2006 CORRUPTION REQUESTS TO DECLARE THE ARTIST

Peru reopens the case of the daughter adopted by Isabel Pantoja

Isabel Pantoja, at Almeria Airport in late August. Photo: FOCUS

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EU and Ethiopia Cooperation history

EU and Ethiopia Cooperation history

The European Union-Ethiopia development partnership formally started when Ethiopia signed the Lomé Convention in 1975. The EU opened its Delegation in Ethiopia in 1975 and has taken the lead in supporting Ethiopia's economic development both financially and technically. The European Union’s mission in Ethiopia is to eradicate poverty through sustainable development, democracy, peace and security. Since the cooperation started, the EU has allocated a total of 2.7 billion Euros for Ethiopia, excluding emergency aid.

The European Union provides funding to support Ethiopia through the European Development Funds (EDF). The latest allocation (10th EDF) of these funds provides some 644 million Euros for the country in areas such as transport, rural development, trade, gender, and environmental conservation.

The European Development Funds have been supplemented by support from European Commission budget lines. The most significant of these has been the food aid and food security budget line and in lines of credit from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The latter provides loans to the private sector directly for commercially viable projects. Such loans to Ethiopia supported projects in the fields of telecommunications, aviation and energy. In addition, a global loan was provided to the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) for onward lending to small and medium sized enterprises.

Michele Jordan - CHI

Ethiopia Program

I am pleased to be the coordinator for overseas families who are adopting in Ethiopia. I work together with Lisa Anderson who has been a CHI coordinator for 8 years. Children's House International is authorized by the Ministry of Justice of the Government of Ethiopia to conduct adoption and humanitarian aid programs there. Single women are welcome to adopt from Ethiopia, couples must be married for at least one year prior to application and one must be at least 30 years old and no more than 45 years older than the child you want to adopt. It takes approximately one to four months to receive a referral after approval of your dossier. The adoption of infant girls may take a little longer. There is a great need for adoption of older children in Ethiopia. It will take approximately two to four months after a referral is accepted before you will be asked to travel to pick up your child.

Actueel boek: Baby op bestelling

Actueel boek: Baby op bestelling
Mateloos heb ik me deze zomer opgewonden over het plan van het AMC om eicellen te gaan invriezen van vrouwen die op latere leeftijd zwanger willen worden. Gelukkig is de Tweede Kamer ook tegen en zijn de woeste plannen inmiddels wat gematigd. Het ziekenhuis wil de leeftijdsgrens niet oprekken tot 50 maar slechts tot 45 jaar en dus is wat mij betreft de angel uit het plan. Anyhow .. op het moment dat er een boek op de markt verschijnt waarin een vrouw zich verdiept in de vele nieuwe technieken om zwanger te raken, waaronder het invriezen van eicellen .. dan kan ik maar één ding zeggen: Lezen dat boek!
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt verkent in Baby op bestelling; de zoektocht van een uitstelmoeder de vele nieuwe mogelijkheden die vrouwen in deze tijd tot hun beschikking hebben – eitjes invriezen, alleenstaand moederschap, een zaaddonor zoeken of adoptie – zonder daarbij haar eigen ambities, dromen, angsten en morele standpunten uit het oog te verliezen.
Baby op bestelling is een eerlijk, indringend en humoristisch verslag van de pogingen van een jonge vrouw om moderne liefde te verenigen met haar eigen ideaalbeeld. Rachel Lehmann-Haupt spreekt de generatie vrouwen aan die alles willen – een carrière, een gezin, de perfecte partner – maar nog niet precies weet hoe ze dat allemaal kan bereiken.
Op haar 31ste denkt Rachel Lehmann-Haupt dat ze het helemaal voor elkaar heeft: de ideale relatie, een mooie carrière en een paar kindjes in het verschiet. Een jaar later is zij weer single en moet ze opnieuw beginnen, geobsedeerd door een snel naderende deadline: de leeftijd van 35 jaar, de grenslijn tussen een ‘gewone’ en een risicozwangerschap. Geconfronteerd met de druk om de ware liefde te ontmoeten terwijl ze nog jong genoeg is om kinderen te krijgen gaat zij op onderzoek uit.
Baby op bestelling is onder meer te koop bij Bol.com
http://zwanger.blog.nl/algemeen/2009/11/03/actueel-boek-baby-op-bestelling-rachel-lehmann-haupt-eicellen-invriezen-embryoselectie
 

Godanaw een straatmeisjes project in Ethiopie

Godanaw een straatmeisjes project in Ethiopie

"Godanaw" betekent: "de straat". Het Godanaw Rehabilitation Integrated Project (kortweg: GRIP) bestaat sinds 1995. Het werkgebied van het project beslaat een gebied waarin ruim 100.000 mensen wonen. Naast het opvangen en beschermen van straatkinderen (het hoofddoel), richt het project zich op ontwikkelingsprogramma’s voor de gehele woongemeenschap.
Stichting Afrika heeft in 2002 kennis gemaakt met een onderdeel van het Godanaw project. Enkele projectwerkgroep medewerkers bezochten een opvanghuis, gebouwd van zeecontainers, voor jonge straatmoeders met hun babies. Zij waren erg onder de indruk van het goede werk dat de heer Mulatu, samen met zijn medewerkers, daar deed. De meisjes en hun babies worden tijdelijk opgevangen en verzorgd en dat behoedt ze voor een leven op straat. Bovendien krijgen de meisjes de kans om een beroep te leren, dat hen in staat stelt een inkomen te verwerven, zodat ze niet van prostitutie hoeven te leven.
Wilt u helpen?
Graag willen wij dit project steunen door bijvoorbeeld regelmatig melkpoeder voor de babies aan te schaffen. Maar ook verzorgingsproducten voor de meisjes (toiletartikelen en dergelijke) zijn hard nodig. In de komende jaren wil de heer Mulattu de volgende projecten realiseren:
·         Een multifunctioneel jongerencentrum: waar jongeren een opleiding kunnen volgen en tegelijk worden voorgelicht over hygiëne en bijvoorbeeld de gevaren van AIDS. Dit is een heel goed alternatief voor het rondhangen op straat.
·         Huisvesting voor jonge straatmoeders en hun babies, waar de jonge vrouwen enkele jaren kunnen wonen als overgang van het straatmeisjes-project naar volledig zelfstandige huisvesting.
·         Hygiëneprojecten in wijken: Dit houdt onder andere in dat er op verschillende plaatsen in de wijk waterpunten met stromend water aangelegd worden, dat er toiletten gerealiseerd worden en dat er afvalcontainers verdeeld door de wijk geplaatst worden.
Mocht u nu al meer willen weten over deze projecten, kunt u contact opnemen met het contactadres.
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Management - Maisha Kara is managed by a six member board of directors.

Management
Maisha Kara is managed by a six member board of directors.
Nyambura Musyimi is the founder member and the Executive Director of Maisha Kara Trust. She is a child advocate and also the founder of Little Angels Network Society, a Kenyan adoption agency. She is also a convener of the Child Law Practitioner committee of the Law Society of Kenya. She has worked at Musyimi & Co. Advocates for Musyimi & Co. Advocates, a firm known for its family and children law practice for the 13years as the founder and managing partner. She has a passion for children in need of care and protection, championing of adoption laws and regulations in Kenya and connecting children to loving families.
Eunice Mwongera is a business woman who has a deep passion for children and their development problems.
Maureen Kuyoh is the Project Director at Family Health International, and holds a masters in population studies.
Marcia Vaughn is the Director of Children of Kenya, an organization that supports children in Education at Gachoka Constituency
Eliab Mulili, a member of the board is a Program Coordinator- Child Rights and Child Protection at Terres des Hommes Netherlands, Regional Office for East Africa. He has a Masters of Arts Degree in Rural Sociology and Community Development. He has immense experience in working with children having worked as a Senior Child Protection Officer at the Children’s Department, Office of the Vice President & Ministry of Home Affairs, Kenya.
Nyambura Musyimi

Mediated by child traffickers: What will become of this girl?

 

LKR. BAD KISSINGEN

Mediated by child traffickers: What will become of this girl?

Romanian girls busy offices and authorities
Marie is two years old. Marie is funny. They prefer to go with grandpa on the tractor or playing with Tom and Jan in the mud. That Opi not her real grandfather and Tom and Jan are their real brothers do not know Marie. The girl came at the age of three months under dubious conditions from Romania to Germany. This busy last week, the court which sentenced for human trafficking, the masterminds behind (we reported). The further fate of the girl, however, is unclear.


A private initiative of two women from Hammelburg Astrid R. meets (all names have been changed, the editorial office) in late 2006 in a village near the Romanian town Lipova to little Mary, then, the youngest of nine children. "The conditions there were deplorable," she recalls. First, they have agreed in writing with their own parents for a temporary guardianship, says Astrid R. "Then, should culminate in a foster care adoption."
The authorities of course she does with that of Romanian Hammelburg. You have to rely on their integrity and their supposedly good contacts with the right people, says Astrid R. "I do not understand the language." They've paid on the advice of her companion and bribes, so faster formalities went, she admits.
No sooner had Astrid R. Marie brought with him to Germany and recorded with the youth due to a care application contact began, the problems, she says. "It was said that we should bring back the child. An adoption of Romanian children was possible only by relatives. "They did not know insists Astrid R., Marie, they will return under any circumstances." At that time she was half starved. " The little girl would not have survived in Romania is, Astrid R. secure.
For two years Mary lived in the district of Bad Kissingen. She likes Pippi Longstocking and the Sandman. The lively blond climbs on the bench in the dining room and grabs a piece of chocolate. "It's become so close to my heart," says Karin Pflegeoma. Family R. will therefore do everything so Marie can stay permanently with them.
But legally speaking, is Marie "in a sort of gray area" as an employee of the Immigration Office at the District Office stated. A notarized statement by the birth parents to secure family R. until mid next year, the guardianship of Mary. Then the child has a total spent three and a half years in Germany. knows what happens next is uncertain.
"The youth is related to the Romanian consulate," said Anna Barbara Keck, Department for Communities and Social Affairs at the District Office at the request of the Main-Post. "We can make up for weeks no personal contact with the biological parents anymore," laments Astrid R.
However, without the consent of the custodial parent remain in Romania are the foster parents in all decisions regarding Marie's hands are tied. An application from Mr and Mrs R. on guardianship has rejected a family judge of the District Court of Bad Kissingen. "A guardianship is possible only if the parental care can not be guaranteed," said the judge on request. That he had seen in this case as not given.
Astrid R. is a very different view. "As a judge can say that the parents in Romania could just take good care of the child as we do here? They have nothing, "Keck confirmed that the child was safe with his foster parents very well and that for the youth" of the child first "stand.
"From our side there is no constraint that the child must return to Romania," said an official with the foreigners authority. It was not even illegal there, and was health insurance. "The crux is that the child without the custodial parents in Germany. Therefore, it is not to freedom of movement under EU law. Otherwise it would in an adoption, but that is indeed possible in this case. " Much is wrong in the case of Marie stupid even from the beginning, regretted the administration officials. That there be for the child, a legally proper solution needs to have the youth, family law and immigration authorities agree. When will it happen, would depend primarily on the Romanian authorities, as Keck. "There are always possibilities."
Astrid R. refuge now in their concern about Marie's future in gallows humor: "If we had a baby polar bear Knut, might have been long since found solutions." Marie, meanwhile bouncy hops on Papa's lap, nursing.

http://www.mainpost.de/lokales/bad-kissingen/Von-Kinderhaendlern-vermittelt-Was-wird-aus-diesem-Maedchen-, art766, 4963754

Zambian Adoption Program

Zambia

We are pleased to offer our newest African program – ZAMBIA

Zambia is a beautiful country, rich with culture and history. Amidst its spectacular rivers and waterfalls, it is also a poor country, where thousands of orphaned children are in need of permanent loving homes.

The capital of The Republic of Zambia is Lusaka.  Zambia is located in southern Africa.  The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.  The population of Zambia is approximately 11 million, with approximately 1.7 million people living in the capital city.

Zambian Adoption Program
The Zambian adoption program is open to both single female applicants, and married couples between the ages of 25 - 50 years old.