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Monday, September 07, 2009

Notices for 40 orphanages in Tiruvallur district
By Nireesh @ 12:11 PM :: 472 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

CHENNAI: Around 40 orphanages in the Tiruvallur district have been identified and issued notices to follow the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, said Tiruvallur district SP M C Sarangan.

The district police had arrested Rev Sadhu Immanuvel (60), the caretaker of Sahityam Charitable Trust, Vellur village for sexually torturing an inmate Revathi (18). Following her complaint, police inspected the orphanage. Inmates including eight women and two young boys were rescued and handed over to the social welfare officer.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Soon, orphans in state to get ‘home and mother’
By Nireesh @ 1:07 PM :: 317 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

Vadodara: Hundreds of orphans affected and infected by HIV will soon get a permanent address. The Gujarat State Aids Control Society (GSACS) is in the final stages of getting approval for opening two new orphanages in the state. Not just that, these orphans will also have someone to call their ‘mother’.

Monday, August 17, 2009

MOH Threatens Revocation of Orphanage Licenses
By Nireesh @ 10:42 AM :: 345 Views :: 0 Comments ::

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) has issued warning to poorly managed orphanages in the country to show improvement in their services.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Lula Approves New Law to Make Adoption Easier in Brazil
By Nireesh @ 10:02 AM :: 367 Views :: 0 Comments ::

BRASILIA – President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva approved Monday a new law that will make it easier for approximately 10,000 children in Brazil’s orphanages to be adopted and have a family.

Friday, July 31, 2009

CHINA/ The beginning of the end of the one-child policy
By Nireesh @ 11:56 AM :: 317 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

It's been more than 30 years since China instituted its one-child policy - whose enforcement led to charges of forced abortions, the abandonment of vast numbers of girl-babies to orphanages or death, the practice of sex-selective abortion, and, in rural areas, permission to have a second child if the first was a girl. Where politicians in Western democracies support abortion as part of a woman's "right to choose," China's policy made abortion widely available but took away the choice. The program was always defended as a necessary protection against over-population.

Friday, July 31, 2009

12 bills await Prez nod to become laws
By Nireesh @ 11:46 AM :: 308 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

A dozen pieces of state legislation passed by the Maharashtra government are currently awaiting the Presidential nod to be turned into laws. There are bills where all formalities have been completed at state legislature level but are now stuck at the final stage of enactment. The 12 bills include pieces of legal framework to regulate the builder mafia in the state, amendments in criminal law to crack down on blackmailers and a law to fight the depleting levels of groundwater in Maharashtra.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Focus on China’s family planning laws
By Nireesh @ 11:19 AM :: 474 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

Government officials in southern China have been accused of selling up to 80 babies taken from families who violated family planning laws in a scandal that has reignited the debate on China’s family planning policies and their enforcement.

Local government officials in Guizhou province in southwest China illegally seized babies from families who broke family planning rules and sold them to adoption agencies overseas for up to $3,000 for a child, the Southern Metropolis newspaper reported this week. Six government officials were on Saturday “punished” for their role in the scandal, said State-run news agency Xinhua.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Holt International: Adoption challenges in China
By Nireesh @ 10:17 AM :: 407 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Asia

Loss of funding has put many children currently in foster homes at risk of returning to orphanages. Holt is committed to taking over the funding of these foster care programs in order to keep the children with their foster families until permanent families can be found. But we need donations to provide the food, supplies and program support to make this happen. Jian Chen, Program Director for China is currently in China, and she sent this message about how loving care and support of stable foster families is so important in the lives of vulnerable children

Friday, July 17, 2009

GSK announces new commitments to fight HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - special focus on care and tr
By Nireesh @ 10:09 AM :: 369 Views :: 0 Comments ::

- New ’Positive Action for Children’ Fund created with Ј50 million ($80 million) available over 10 years to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to support orphans and vulnerable children

- Ј10 million seed funding to support a Public Private Partnership into research and development of new HIV/AIDS medicines for children

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Orphans receive Jesus at camp
By Nireesh @ 10:38 AM :: 318 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Many of the kids also come from difficult pasts. Ten days of summer camp, however, can impact even the most hardened lives.

"This first camp that we did, which happened when I was there, was probably the hardest group of kids we've ever had," Dunberg said. "They came from an orphanage in Kiev. They were older kids, and some of them said when they came, ‘We will have nothing to do with your Christ. We worship Satan, and that's what we're going to continue to do.'"

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