International Advocates for Children

To provide orphans with a strong advocate and to overhaul the adoption system through public awareness and technological based solutions (as stated on their 990 TAX Form)

Atlanta Children’s Advocacy Group Staffs Dutch Office
International Advocates for Children (IAC), a watchdog for orphaned and abandoned children worldwide, has hired a full-time staff member for its Amsterdam office as the nonprofit organization seeks to build stronger bonds with European governments and expand its operations hroughout the continent.
According to Lynda Lee Smith, executive director of IAC, the organization provides a tracking system of orphaned children around the world through proprietary software that it acquired in its partnership with Trans Parent Systems Inc. The group opened its suburban Atlanta office in 2001 and a volunteer office in Amsterdam last year.
The establishment of an overseas office was part of IAC’s strategy, which has earmarked the opening of satellite offices on every continent. S
source: International Advocates for Children

The European Office moved to The Hague in 2007, when the name was changed into World Orphan Initiative.
9 November 2006

Persons

Person Relation type Date from Date to
Dan Bouchard Board member 2006 Jan 01
Dee Simms Board member
Greg Hayes Board member
Jamie Cuneo Board member 2006 Jan 01
Marina Zakharova Board member 2003 Jan 01
Nat Padget Board member
Pam Walker Board member 2006 Jan 01
Steve Simon Board member 2006 Jan 01
Susan Secor Manning Board member
Teresa Theisen Board member
Teri A. Simmons Board member
Lynda Smith (Lynda Lee Smith) CEO
Maarten Brekelmans CEO 2004 Jan 01
Farah A. Chapes Director
Kimberly Merritt Director
Marisa Salcines Director
Alice Hakvoort Employed by 2005 Jan 01
Inge Terpstra Employed by 2005 Jan 01
Sergey Zasyatkin Incorporator of 2001 Jan 01 2005 Jan 01

Relations to other organizations

Organization Relation Type Organization Country Date from Date to
International Advocates for Children Organizes 2004 Symposium on New Tools for Understanding and Enforcing the Human Rights of Orphaned and Abandoned Children
International Advocates for Children Organizes 2005 2nd World Conference on Children without Parents
International Advocates for Children Organizes 2006 3rd Annual World Conference on Children without Parental Care
AMREX Provided grant to International Advocates for Children
Intercountry Adoption Congress Renamed into International Advocates for Children
International Advocates for Children Renamed into World Initiative for Orphans (WIO) 2007 Jan 01

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