11th November 2012, 01:42

An orphanage in Ethiopia, which brokered adopted children in Denmark, accused of luring poor parents for adoption with false promises of money and education. It writes Politiken Sunday.

According Kedir Nur from the city government in the provincial town Assela was adoption laws systematically broken at the orphanage ENAT Alem, who cooperate with the Danish organization DanAdopt.

– ENAT Alem had a great team of employees, who traveled around the villages and told people that if they gave up their children, they would get a lot of money even says Kedir Nur, children are responsible for Assela, Politiken and elaborates:

– In some cases, they paid out even symbolic amount until parents signed into law. They persuaded them also to lie about their children’s age. In return, they promised that their children would be a good investment because they would come back again after a short time and changing family life completely.

According to a report, 90-95 percent of children are not orphans and had parents who could support them. Children’s Home active recruitment method is thus strictly forbidden as adoption abroad by law must always be the last resort.

From 2001 to 2011, the Danish parents adopted 644 children from Ethiopia. It has not been possible to ascertain how many of these agreements has been established through ENAT Alem, writes Politiken.

According DanAdopt director, Marianne Wung-Sung, arouse the concern that two out of three orphanages in ENAT Alem has been closed by the authorities.

– Yes, we follow it very closely, but this is a matter for many orphanages, they have not been alone, she says to Politiken and whereas DanAdopt have not had contact with local and regional authorities.

UN has repeatedly expressed strong concern that the adoption in Ethiopia is developing to children exports.