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<http://www.zeit.de/2008/11/index> DIE ZEIT, Ausgabe 11, 2008

Von Wolfgang Lechner | © DIE ZEIT, 06.03.2008 Nr. 11

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RECENT IBESR INSPECTIONS

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IBESR (Haitian Social Services, in charge of monitoring orphanages) recently had its unannounced inspections. Here is the report we got, written by one of the moms who talked to the director:

As many of you know IBESR inspects the orphanages and provides them with the licensing they need to legally operate. Inspections are unannounced and can occur at anytime. Both PAC 1 and PAC 2 have recenty been inspected, and of course passed with flying colors. During this inspection IBESR, UNICEF, and a child advocate were all present. They evaluated both

O’s for cleanliness, staff ratios, size and room for the children, activities for the children, meals, medical care, etc.. They even

Pétition d'un collectif pour un rapatriement rapide d'Haïtiens adoptés

Un collectif pour le rapatriement des enfants en cours d'adoption en Haïti a lancé une pétition sur internet demandant au président de la République et au ministre des Affaires étrangères un rapatriement rapide de ces enfants en France.

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Orphanage: Adoption plan needed for Haitian children

By Melissa Gray, CNN

January 15, 2010 3:05 p.m. EST

Chris Skelton (center): "The situation is dire -- there will be many more children in need of help."

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16-01-2010 - update aaardbeving Haïti (13.15 u)

We kunnen melden dat er twee vluchten vanuit Haïti naar Curacao zijn geweest, waarop ouders met hun kinderen en een aantal escortkinderen zijn meegvlogen. De betreffende ouders zijn hiervan uiteraard op de hoogte gesteld.

Het gaat om in totaal 7 kinderen. Het gewonde jongetje kon ook worden vervoerd en is inmiddels opgenomen in een ziekenhuis in Curacao waar hij voorlopig zal verblijven.

Op het bureau wordt met man en macht geprobeerd de Haïtiaanse overheid te bewegen de laatste formele handelingen te verrichten, waarmee vertrek naar Nederland voor àlle kinderen mogelijk zal zijn. Met name dit laatste is moeilijk omdat in de chaos het bijna niet te beoordelen is óf er nog sprake is van een Haitiaanse overheid en op welke plaats een functionaris te vinden is.

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Vietnam adoptions remain suspended | 25/11/2009

The Government has announced it is to suspend “indefinitely” negotiations on a new adoption agreement with Vietnam and said couples eligible to adopt children from that country may instead opt to adopt from another jurisdiction.

Minister for Children Barry Andrews said the decision was taken in response to the “serious findings and recommendations” contained in the report on intercountry adoption commissioned by Unicef and the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice and carried out by International Social Services (ISS).

2010 Report on Child Abandonment

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 11:48

The "2010 AiBi. Report on Child Abandonment: an Emergency - Life After Institutional Care" is now ready and will be soon published. This is the third report released from Ai.Bi. after the first two issued in 2007 and 2008 on respectively child abandonment and the social protection systems of Out-of-Family Children in five E.U. countries.

The report is one of the two concrete outputs (results) of the EU co-financed project named Life After Institutional Care which Ai.Bi. has carried out over the last two years in Italy, France, Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia to help identify effective social policies for the successful social inclusion of out-of-family youths.

The second output has been a set of guidelines on how to encourage the professional and social inclusion of young boys and girls and it will be published itself.

Italian NGO Reunites Abandoned Mongolian Children With Families

Written by Bijani Mizell

Thursday, January 15, 2009.

ABANDONED children have been a huge issue for Mongolia, as its crowded shelters can attest. But several NGOs, including Italy-based Amici dei Bambini, strive to combat this pervasive problem. With 29 centers worldwide, Amici dei Bambini is an international intermediary center that facilitates family placement, and its unique focus is re-integrating abandoned children with their biological families.

In March 2008, Amici dei Bambini started a program at the Infant Clinic Sanatorium, a hospital in Ulaanbaatar, called "The Right to Live in a Family".

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010

Do not use Hope Adoption Agency

I typically keep some of the negative parts of dealing with our agency off my blog, as we have always wanted to remain in good standing and be considerate of our agency director. Well, after today…. That’s all being thrown out the window. The truth needs to be told.

After repeated attempts to reach our adoption agency we finally received a call. It was our agency director Shimeliss Demissie. He basically started the conversation by telling me that we are not being very patient and that he feels like he should not work on our case anymore. He said that we do not understand everything that goes on with Ethiopian adoption and that he never referred our kids to us. That it is our fault for using AWOP in the beginning and not doing our homework. He continued to go on about how he is done with our case and how he can no longer help us.

I was floored. When I was allowed to speak- (he tends to take over the conversation), I asked if he was serious…. And if he is – then we would like to see our money back since we are in the same place now as we were two years ago. This was the point where he inappropriately and very unprofessionally started yelling at me. Truthfully I couldn’t understand a word he was saying, as his Ethiopian accent was getting in the way. When I calmly mentioned taking legal action to get our money he welcomed it, saying that he has spent many hours on the phone and sending emails about/for our case. To the tune of $6000 worth?