Evaluation of partner organizations in the context of investigation of adoption files

Issued by: Growing Up (Flemish Government Agency)
In collaboration with: International Social Service (ISS)

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Fiom must limit the search for family for non-adopted children

Fiom offers help and advice on various topics to people looking for information about their ancestry. The message below concerns the section Searching for Family, not the section Donor Conception. Please note: services related to the KID DNA database and the CDKB will continue to be provided.

For years, Fiom has been committed to helping everyone discover their biological family through its "Searching for Family" program . We carefully guide people in their search for biological family, paying attention to everyone involved. We do this for adoptees, birth parents, donor children, foundlings, foster children, and adults who have never known who their biological parent is.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) has informed us that the subsidy for supporting non-adopted people who want to search for their biological family is ending. This is separate from the KID DNA database or the CDKB.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: 10 children from the Child Welfare Committee have been placed under the care of single parents. A total of 80 children up for adoption by the Child Welfare Committee this year. Of these, 10 were placed under the care of only a mother or father. 22 children, includi individuals with disabilities, were adopted abroad. 

Parents with up to three children of their own are also coming to adopt. Adoption is granted to a single parent through the Central Adoption Resource Authority(CARA) guidelines of the central government. 

Single paren register with the central digital database, CARA, to adopt children. Female guardians are granted adoptions of both sexes. Male guardians are give 

There are currently 186 children in the Child Welfare Committee. Child returned The child who was adopted by a single parent was returned to the Child Welfare Committee after months. 

The woman, a native of Thiruvanantha registered to adopt the child with her husband, but her husband died in the meantime. The woman adopted the child still. However, as she could reconcile, the child was returned to the committee within months. 

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Were numerous babies and young children taken from Guatemala against their parents' will in the 1980s? It certainly seems that way. A story that began with a complaint from Sandra S. from Vilvoorde. In August 2014, the woman read in our newspaper the story of Dolores Praet, who was adopted by a Belgian couple in 1985. In 2011, she traveled to Guatemala to find her biological mother, Rosario Colop, in the village of Santa Maria de Jesus, the name she found in her adoption file. Colop no longer lived there. A villager told her that a girl had disappeared in the 1980s. She wasn't Colop's daughter, but the daughter of another couple. DNA analysis confirmed it: they were the biological parents. Colop was arrested for allegedly arranging fraudulent adoptions.

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Mumbai: A four-year-old girl, kidnapped from near Mumbai CSMT railway station in May, was traced to a Varanasi orphanage, from where she was taken into custody by police and reunited with her family, an official said on Friday.
 

Investigations revealed the girl was abandoned by the roadside by the kidnapper and a woman, on spotting the child alone, took her to the orphanage in the Uttar Pradesh city, he said.
 

A case was registered at the Mata Ramabai Ambedkar (MRA) Marg police station on May 23 after the girl was kidnapped by a man aged around 25 while her parents, originally hailing from Solapur district in western Maharashtra, were asleep near Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) station, the official said.
 

During probe, the police examined CCTV footage from the station premises and spotted a man walking away with the child, he said.
 

It was also revealed the kidnapper boarded a local train to Dadar and alighted at Kurla before proceeding to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), from where long-distance trains depart.

Suspecting the girl was taken to Uttar Pradesh, a Mumbai police team later travelled several times to Varanasi, but could not trace the child initially, he said.

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From: Köhler, Wolfgang

Date: Mon 24. Apr 2023 at 11:58

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Cc: Reschke, Jan , Gross, Markus , Ingenerf-Huber, Elisabeth

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In 2016, LWB decided to expand our successful family-based care model to India. We knew that implementing foster care there would be challenging due to cultural and administrative difficulties. Despite the government passing national laws to promote foster care, most Indian families and officials still see orphanages as the default solution for children without parental care. 

It took us three full years to find a locally-run organization that fit with LWB’s child-centered model for foster care. In 2019, we connected with YCDA (Youth Council for Development Alternatives), who are located in rural Odisha, one of the poorest states in India. For the last six years, we have worked together to help orphaned and vulnerable children grow up in families, not institutions. 

Recently, our local team member, Rini, spent time with the children in our foster care program, asking them simple questions about their daily lives, dreams, and favorite things. Their answers, some quite touching, reveal how much a nurturing foster home can mean to a child who once faced uncertainty.

In this story, we’re sharing some of the children’s responses along with a closer look at how foster care in India is helping children in Odisha grow up surrounded by compassion and hope.