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Now together, father, daughter, and a support group of family and friends are all building a bright future for a beautiful and bubbly little girl. Being an expectant father for the first time gives you butterflies of nerves but loads of excitement. Thoughts of a little bundle of joy about to enter your life gives you an overwhelming sense of …
Tara Winkler thought she was doing the right thing when she travelled to Cambodia to volunteer in an orphanage, but she unwittingly became part of an industry that relies on taking children from their families and keeping them in institutions. Now she hopes to raise awareness of the problems with both orphanage tourism and other kinds of voluntourism. Late Night …
For every inter-country adoption the orphanage earns $5,000.00 and the government receives $3,000. One third of it’s population makes $1.25 per day. Children are easy to obtain and the orphanages falsify papers and present the children as orphans, meanwhile the parents believe their children are in a children’s home getting an education. Unknowingly the children are processed for foreign adoption. …
The Cabinet has approved “an indefinite moratorium on inter-country adoption of Kenyan children by foreigners. The decision was informed by Kenya’s current ranking by the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, United Nations Office on drugs and crime, citing Kenya as a source, transit and destination country in human trafficking. The move is a response to concerns about increased …