Date: 2011-06-05 Source: http://www.independent.co.uk Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world By Laurie Penny Sunday, 5 June 2011 In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing…. Read more »
Category: South Africa
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk By IAN BIRRELL 10th April 2011 As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti. ‘Outside it is… Read more »
Social Worker Busted For Selling Babies
Source: http://www.newstime.co.za Monday, April 04, 2011 | Comments: 3 Social worker Sharon Mushokabanji has been busted for selling orphaned children for adoption, reports Jacques Pauw for the City Press. Mushokabanji has since been dismissed for fraud after it emerged that she had faked her qualifications and registration with the Council for Social Service Professions. She… Read more »
After 18 months, adoptions at Pune’s Preet Mandir resume
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com Published: Saturday, Feb 5, 2011, 10:11 IST By Bhagyashree Kulthe | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA A ray of hope has dawned upon a number of orphans in Preet Mandir, whose adoptions had been held up for the last one-and-a-half years. On Thursday, a 2-year-old girl was finally united with her South African… Read more »
After 18 months, adoptions at Pune’s Preet Mandir resume
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com Published: Saturday, Feb 5, 2011, 10:11 IST By Bhagyashree Kulthe | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA A ray of hope has dawned upon a number of orphans in Preet Mandir, whose adoptions had been held up for the last one-and-a-half years. On Thursday, a 2-year-old girl was finally united with her South African… Read more »
South African woman waiting to adopt from Preetmandir asks activist to drop her demand for inquiry
Date: 2010-11-05 Source: http://www.mid-day.com The president of an NGO called Sakhee on Wednesday allegedly received a threat call from a South African woman waiting to adopt a baby from city-based Preetmandir. The caller asked the social activist, Anjali Pawar, to discontinue her efforts to ensure an investigation into whether the children waiting for adoption at… Read more »
Irish couples may adopt from three new countries
Source:http://www.irishtimes.com The Irish Times – Monday, September 13, 2010 CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor IRISH COUPLES will be able to adopt children from Bulgaria, South Africa and Thailand through administrative agreements being discussed by the Adoption Board under the new Adoption Act, The Irish Times has learned. These are the first agreements being sought under… Read more »
At last, dad is allowed to take Baby T home
Source: www.iol.co.za Date: 2008-12-11 Events have taken a bizarre twist after The Star first published an article about Jose Williams and his plight, in which the magistrate handling his daughter’s case denied that the infant had ever been the subject of any adoption proceedings and refused to comment any further. The Star had simultaneously also… Read more »
Williams case has twist
Date: 2008-12-11 Source: www.iol.co.za At last, dad is allowed to take Baby T home Falsely accused of being an abusive and mentally unstable drug addict, Jose Williams nearly lost his baby daughter to an adoption to which he was fiercely opposed. But the 26-year-old refused to give up on his first-born child and, after the… Read more »
Adoption on hold over licence
Taschica Pillay Published:Nov 09, 2008 A childless Gauteng couple’s wish to give a Mumbai toddler a home has been dashed by bureaucratic bungling. The wife and husband are among 20 couples waiting to adopt children from India. The couple, who have been married for 12 years, had expected to make a home for the child… Read more »
