This is a repost from www.lambinternational.blogspot.com ILDC founder organization
A SITUATION - CAN YOU HELP
HER NAME IS KATYA.
We have been working on a difficult sitution here in Ukraine. There is a young American girl who is presently at an orphanage not by her choice. She was adopted from Ukraine when she was in grade 6. She turned 18 in August of this year and in October 2010 her adoptive parents put her on a plane and sent her back to Ukraine. We have heard her story and it is sad.
She is receiving help from a church in Krivoy Rog as well as other individuals in Ukraine. She now has no place to return to in the US and had no idea of what she will do. The US Embassy has been contacted and they are aware of the situation and are planning to do a thorough investigation of the situation.
Our staff are doing what they can do as well. We have found a place for her to stay here in Ukraine until she can return to the US, but she is running out of time to leave the country. Foreigners can only stay three months and then need to leave and then they can re-enter. Although she was born in Ukraine, she is now considered a foreigner. Her citizenship is US and she wants to return, but has no one to help her in the US.
This is where we place the call to our friends, family and bloggers. Is there anyone out there willing to take a risk and help? Her story is one of constant conflict, verbal abuse and lack of emotional support. She claims she was a Magna student (can easily be confirmed). She was to graduate this year, but was sent back before this could take place. She will likely lose most of her school year. She claims she was sent back with only hours notice - afraid of what the alternatives were for her.
All persons working with her in Ukraine claim she is a nice girl - very upset at this, does not know the national language of Ukrainian and speaks "weak" Russian. In fact her Russian is at a grade 6 level. She wants to return home to the US. She sees no hope with her adoptive family.
Please consider this, pray for this siutation and let us know if you have any ideas. You can contact us at our email address - we believe this young woman deserves to have this help. One cannot make decisions alone when you are 18 - in a foreign country - facing the unknowns - and just plain scared.
пятница, 10 декабря 2010 г.
вторник, 23 ноября 2010 г.
WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT!!!
Project Background
There are about 100,000 children in the child welfare system in Ukraine which do not live with their birth families and there are many who don’t have parents at all or were abandoned by their parents. Most of them live in orphanages type institutions which were inherited from soviet child welfare system.
There are a big number of healthy families in Ukraine which potentially able to adopt these children. The major sources of these families are churches and communities. But, the biggest barrier for that is the post soviet mentality, when adoption was not popular and was viewed as something negative. In fact families are very often afraid of adoption do not understand about it adopt and have inadequate information about adoption.
So it is important in this situation to promote the idea of national adoption, to motivate by inspiring and encouraging and support these families so they could adopt children and do not be afraid.
In “Adopt Project “we can do all that through presentations on adoption in churches, communities and public organizations, trainings, consultations and individual work with families helping them in a process of adoption, support and encouragement of the families who already adopted.
During last 3 years 150 presentations were held in churches and communities in 12 regions of Ukraine, 80 children were placed in families, over 200 people turned for consultation.
Goal of the project
Main goal of the project is to help find families for orphans in Ukraine.
Tasks of the project
1.To promote national idea of national adoption in Ukraine.
2.To encourage families who want to adopt.
3.To help families in the process of adoption or restorations their parental rights.
4.Provide support to families which already adopted.
5.To conduct trainings and counseling of potential adoptive parents, families who adopted children and orphaned children
Project activities
1.Presentation on adoption in churches and public organization.
2.Training potential adoptive parents and children in orphanages and orphanage graduates.
3.Counseling families on issues of placing children into the family, raising children, conflict resolution.
4.Helping families in a process of adoption.
5.Finding families for children who can be adopted.
6.Helping birth families in restoration of their parental rights and reunification with their children.
7.Preparing children for adoption and counseling children after their placement
There are about 100,000 children in the child welfare system in Ukraine which do not live with their birth families and there are many who don’t have parents at all or were abandoned by their parents. Most of them live in orphanages type institutions which were inherited from soviet child welfare system.
There are a big number of healthy families in Ukraine which potentially able to adopt these children. The major sources of these families are churches and communities. But, the biggest barrier for that is the post soviet mentality, when adoption was not popular and was viewed as something negative. In fact families are very often afraid of adoption do not understand about it adopt and have inadequate information about adoption.
So it is important in this situation to promote the idea of national adoption, to motivate by inspiring and encouraging and support these families so they could adopt children and do not be afraid.
In “Adopt Project “we can do all that through presentations on adoption in churches, communities and public organizations, trainings, consultations and individual work with families helping them in a process of adoption, support and encouragement of the families who already adopted.
During last 3 years 150 presentations were held in churches and communities in 12 regions of Ukraine, 80 children were placed in families, over 200 people turned for consultation.
Goal of the project
Main goal of the project is to help find families for orphans in Ukraine.
Tasks of the project
1.To promote national idea of national adoption in Ukraine.
2.To encourage families who want to adopt.
3.To help families in the process of adoption or restorations their parental rights.
4.Provide support to families which already adopted.
5.To conduct trainings and counseling of potential adoptive parents, families who adopted children and orphaned children
Project activities
1.Presentation on adoption in churches and public organization.
2.Training potential adoptive parents and children in orphanages and orphanage graduates.
3.Counseling families on issues of placing children into the family, raising children, conflict resolution.
4.Helping families in a process of adoption.
5.Finding families for children who can be adopted.
6.Helping birth families in restoration of their parental rights and reunification with their children.
7.Preparing children for adoption and counseling children after their placement
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