Application acceptance from international adoption organizations suspended in Kyrgyzstan

Application acceptance from international adoption organizations suspended in Kyrgyzstan 20/02-2012 08:54, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Anastasia BENGARD Application acceptance from international adoption organizations is suspended in Kyrgyzstan. It was said by Head of Family and Children Department at Social Development Ministry Ekaterina Horoshman for 24.kg news agency. According her, in total, 24 applications have been sent to the Department: 11 are from USA, 6 – Spain, 3 – Italy, 1 from each country – Finland, Canada, Netherlands and Sweden. “Currently, only one non-commercial corporation Christian World Adoption (South Carolina, USA) is accredited in the country. Other – a Holland company – is on stage of approval. Totally, only 10 organizations will be accredited or 3 companies from the each country,” she explained. Recall, from 2005 to 2008 216 Kyrgyz children were adopted. They went to 8 foreign countries. Most of them found home in USA, 30 per cent – Switzerland, Sweden and Germany, 2 children are in South-African Republic. Moratorium on international adoption has been functioning for three years.

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