Anand 2005

India. Door het noemen van de naam krijg ik al heimwee.

Na de Kiranreis in 2004 wilde ik graag wéér naar India.

Tijdens een gesprek geven Stella en Gertjan Poortman aan dat ze graag weer naar India willen. Tja, ik ben makkelijk over te halen. Op een middag zijn de tickets geregeld.

Op maandag 18 juli is het zo ver. Stella, Gertjan en Annemarie (een goede vriendin van Stella) komen mij ophalen. Na een vlucht van 7½ uur (met weinig beenruimte) landen we in Delhi. Het hotel is prima! We hebben de kamers op het dakterras.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

The Orphanage

I promised to write about the orphanage so here it is, despite the fact that I've been back home in the states for almost two months now. Well, actually, I'm not in the US right now, I'm in Canada! But that's another story for another blog post (hopefully soon).

Mindy got connected to the orphanage by meeting the orphanage director, Almaz, at church. Almaz is an amazing woman, worth telling about in her own right. She is Ethiopian but left the country when she was young, fleeing famine with her family. She lost some family members in the arduous journey, which ended in a refugee camp in Sudan (the direction of refugees movement is exactly opposite now). From there she came to America, was educated here and eventually became a social worker. She was with an adoption agency, and was saddened by how often a child that was already promised to an adoptive couple died. As she grieved with these couples, she became interested in working on the other end, where the orphans were originating. She returned to Ethiopia to run an orphanage

We visited the orphanage every Saturday during my visit to bring treats and read books to the orphans to help them learn English. The English learning is with the very tangible goal of being able to talk with their adoptive families. The kids were already quite impressive, with some of the older kids able to sound out printed English words. What words did they know best? Down to the toddlers it was: "Father" "Mother" "Brother" and "Sister".

geadopteerd uit Bangladesh - reacties
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Ik ben Saleha en ben in januari 1977 naar Nederland gekomen. Geboren in december 1976, ik ben nieuwschierig of er nog meer mensen uit de zelfde periode naar Nederland zijn gekomen. Mijn geboorteplaats is Mymensingh. Ik weet sinds een paar weken mijn echte achternaam. Omdat ik nu zelf met mijn man bezig ben met kinderen ,krijg je toch meer vragen...het kinderen krijgen gaat helaas niet vanzelf bij ons en hebben we ons ingeschreven voor Adoptie. Ik en mijn man staan er 100% achter. Vooral omdat ik zelf ook geadopteerd ben. We gaan eind augustus beginnen met de cursus, het boek wat je daarvoor krijgt ken ik bijna uit m'n hoofd, er beginnen nu spannende tijden voor ons. Als er meerdere mensen zijn die het leuk lijkt om over hen ervaringen te praten over de adoptie van Bangladesh naar Nederland zou ik het leuk vinden om er mee in contact te komen.
Geplaatst door saleha op 23-08-2007 21:49
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13-09-2007 11:25 - jhorna
Hallo,

Ik ben in 1975 vanuit Bangladesh gekomen. Je mag me mailen, als je wil, op j.smidt@home.nl.

Groetjes,

Jhorna
18-10-2007 12:11 - waterman70
hallo Saleha,ik ben geadopteerd op 22juni 1977.ik was toen op papier 7jaar en weet dus nog veel over mijn levens wijze in bangladesh.ben in 1995 na 20 jaar voor het eerst terug geweest met een groeps reizen van wereldkinderen.als je nog meer wil weten,dan kan je me mailen naar (bgriffioen@msn.com) groetjes van babul
06-11-2007 11:55 - banglagirl
Hai Saleha,

Ook ik ben geadopteerd uit Bangladesh en kom ook uit Mymensingh. Ik ben naar nederland gekomen toen ik 9 weken was. Ben in Januari 1978 naar Nederland gekomen. In januari 2003 ben ik voor het eerst terug geweest en ben toen ook in Mymensingh geweest. Je kan me mailen als je het leuk vind op munirih30@hotmail.com.

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF RWANDAN ADOPTION LAW

RWANDAN ADOPTION LAW

(As of September 2007)

Chapter 4: ADOPTION

Article: 332

Two days ago I posted about an adoption interview/debate on Al Jazeera’s English network. This post is about the second half of that interview with Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS), and Louise Melville, a Care and Protection Adviser for Save The Children.

You can watch the clip of the 2nd half of the interview below, and (if you’re interested) you can read my commentary below the interview. If you cannot see the interview below, you can go to the interview on YouTube.

Part 2:

(Click on the play button in the center of the box or at the bottom of the box to watch the video right here. If you click anywhere else in the box, you will be taken to YouTube’s website.)

https://youtu.be/HIHjKEliudQ

The English wing of the Arab news network Al Jazeera produced a piece last month about international adoption on their “Inside Story” program: “Guatemala Adoption Scandal” aired on 13 August 2007. The program featured two interviewees who went head-to-head on inter-country adoption: Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS), and Louise Melville, a Care and Protection Adviser for Save The Children.

This piece came to my attention not because I’m a regular Al Jazeera watcher, but because Carolina Hope is a member of JCICS, which advocates for international children’s welfare and supports international adoption as a legitimate option for providing permanency to children in need of homes.

I’m dividing this topic into two posts because the television program is available on the internet in 2 segments (and I only have time to blog about one of those today!) You can watch the first clip below, and (if you’re interested) you can read my commentary below the interview. If you cannot see the interview below, you can go to the interview on YouTube.

Part 1:

(If you click on the main box, you will be taken to the YouTube website. If you simply click on the play button at the bottom of the box, you can watch the video right here.)

Vienna (OTS) -In an open letter, 180 adoptive parents call on lawyer Eric Agstner to end his campaign to criminalize international adoption. In the letter initiated by Bärbel Klepp together with other adoptive parents, lawyer Agstner (lawyer of trust at the Ethiopian embassy and representative of the adoptive family whose girl was adopted under unclear circumstances) is accused of not only defaming all 70 adopted children with his allegations, which he carried in the media, who came to Austria from Ethiopia via "Family For You", but also to put all adoptive parents in a bad light as "accomplices" by making sweeping statements. Quote from the letter: "We and our children will now be associated with exactly this one case by our environment.

Scandal public-privat pe banii destinati copiilor Oana Craciun

Business with adoptions

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Someone to earn foreign parents who want to adopt children with us? Suspicions exist. Nik does not address them. Ministry of Labour as an organization has to oversee the process of intercountry adoption, sticking its head in the sand. doing some of his senior officials have ties to people involved in adoptions. What is certain is that in international adoption in Slovakia, something stinks. Authorities inexplicably prefer Italy from other countries who are already complaining about the lack of interest on our part. Thereby, the processing of applications of Italian couples showed irregularities, suggesting that the charges can enrich anyone. One of such evidence, the journal is available. These documents related to the adoption of a child in Italy. According to one Italian couple paid the Slovak side of 2500 euros more than it should - that is the equivalent of around 90-thousand. Husbands do not wish to disclose his name in the media as a child already living in Italy. In the process of acquiring the Slovakian pay € 6500, but according to their spending price lists for individual adoptions operations could exceed € 4000. ended where the remaining money is not clear. Not explain either the Center for International Legal Protection of Children, which falls under the Ministry of Labor and is responsible for international adoptions. Alena center director Matej said the questionable payments does not know anything.

"The costs associated with their applicants residing in the Slovak Republic are stipulated by the international agencies and applicants. Not register any complaints from partner institutions abroad, about the disproportionate cost to any of the services. "

Director of the Center for International ichranu children Alena Mat?jová