SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2010

Ghana is Calling.

On the telephone (many times), and now in my head. I haven't had a decent night sleep since we learned the truth about our Bubbly. I haven't had a decent night sleep since I knew that her friends had experienced the same type of pain. I haven't had a decent night sleep since I learned that some of them are still living the nightmare. I'm tired.

But, Ghana keeps calling. Many, many times. Usually, in the middle of the night. Mostly, we answer because we are always ready to hear from birthparents. Sometimes, it's not them and the voice on the other end of the phone is someone I would rather not ever hear from again. I want to shout "make it STOP!!!". Last night the 2am phone calls woke my two-year-old and my Giggles. She wants to know why Ghana is calling so much. She never wants to talk to them again because they make me cry. She tells me to forget Ghana. Ghana hurt her, her brother and sister and her friends. Obviously, that's a problem. I try to reassure her that there is beauty in Ghana, there is good. We need to tell her that it's not Ghana itself, that it's just a few people. I want to focus on my own family, to not have to make or receive any more phone calls of a disturbing or threatening nature. I don't want to clean up other people's messes that leave other adoptive parents broken hearted. I don't want to hear anymore desperate Ghanaian voices on the other end of the phone asking me for help. I want it all to stop. I want someone else to deal with it. I want to plug my ears and yell "la la la la LAAAAA!". But, it's not to be. It's too hard to ignore children.

It's like being in a dark building and having two doors, one with the lit "exit sign" and one without. You know the one with the light will lead you further into the building, so you desperately search for the one without a sign. You know that the one without a sign will lead you out of the darkness entirely, to a much happier place. But, no matter how hard you try, you can't find it. God makes it hard to find because He obviously doesn't want me to take the easy way out. So, I faithfully continue to use the door with the sign, the path God seems to want me to follow. I get deeper and deeper, then I can see the path ahead for a little while, then someone makes it disappear. But, I keep following those exit signs, hoping that someday this will all be a bad memory.

Num?rul copiilor abandona?i a crescut: Aproape 1.500 de copii, p?r?si?i în maternit??i sau în alte unit??i sanitare în 2012

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Date: 03/11/13

International Adoptions: UNICEF urges Ghana to the ratification of the Hague Convention by June 2013

According to the latest report by UNICEF Ghana, and the Report on the workshop "Guidelines for International Adoptions in Ghana" held in September 2012, urge the formulation of a law regulating international adoptions in the country, so that the process can be adopted regulated and supervised.

And it is for this reason that in the next two years UNICEF will be engaged in an intense work of reform to ensure the protection of children in the African country . The NGO delll'ONU has already met with the local Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, which seems to have shown interest because the legislative process goes forward and implement as soon as possible.

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Date: 2/4/2004 10:43 AM Eastern Standard Time

Dolj: 46 de copii sunt eligibili pentru adop?ie interna?ional?

Societate - Ana D?nescu

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Miercuri, 06 Martie 2013 - 16:11

Oficiul Român pentru Adop?ii a anun?at c? în România exist? 92 de copii eligibili pentru adop?ie interna?ional? - 49 de b?ie?i ?i 43 de fete, cei mai mul?i având vârsta cuprins? între ?apte ?i 12 ani. Potrivit unui raport al Oficiului, 64 dintre ace?tia sunt perfect s?n?to?i, iar 30 sunt copii cu dizabilit??i, cei mai mul?i prezentând retard mintal. La nivelul jude?ului Dolj, la sfâr?itul anului trecut existau 46 de copii declara?i adoptabili.

International Adoptions By U.S. Parents Fell In 2012, Continuing Multi-Year Decline

Reuters | Posted: 01/24/2013 11:38 pm EST

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* China biggest source of foreign adoptions, followed by Ethiopia, Russia

* Falling numbers stem from Hague convention aimed at curbing corruption

07-03-2013

Ethiopia: Travelogue January 2013

In January 2013 I had the opportunity once again to visit Ethiopia. It is one of the countries which somehow creeps completely under the skin and into the heart of one, and I was therefore thrilled to have the opportunity to visit the country for the third time in my time at DanAdopt.

This trip was a little special to my two previous trips because this trip was an unpaid study, and where I first days had my son at 17 years of travel. He eventually have listened to a lot of my Ethiopia Talk, so now it was time that he got the opportunity to visit and explore one of the most beautiful countries in East Africa's horn ...

Apart from being a tourist guide for the first few days, I had after my son had gone back to DK, subsequent follow our Ethiopian colleagues' work, exchange experience and not least visit our partners at orphanages Tikuret and Abenezer.

Terre des hommes will no longer be organizing adoptions

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:16 GMT

Source: Member

International adoption has been a part of the activities of Terre des hommes since the early 1960s. But from Edmond Kaiser and the first children arriving by their dozens, for whom adoptive families were sought urgently, to the complexity of today’s procedures, international adoption has come a long way. Firstly, the criteria and the demands are now far stricter for the adopters, the number of applications has significantly decreased and the profile of the children put up for international adoption is currently very different from the expectations of the future parents. Secondly, structural changes in some of the countries of origin, notably in India, no longer enable us to assume our responsibilities towards the children and the adoptive parents. In such a background of evolution, Terre des hommes will no longer be serving as an intermediary for adoptions, but will continue to advocate for the children’s protection, encouraging keeping or returning the children to their own families, or having recourse to alternative care options such as host families in the child’s own country.

For some years we have been witnessing a gradual decrease in international adoptions. All host countries are concerned, in North America as well as in Europe. Keeping a child in his biological family, alternatives to the institutionalization of children, the increase of national adoptions, have all played their part in this decrease. In the United States, for example, in 2004, 24,000 children from other countries were adopted. In 2011, only 9,300 international adoptions were counted.