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The story of Heartline’s transition from residential care to family care is told in this recently released Faith to Action case study.
The case study details their experience through three stages of transition—learning, preparation and planning, and full transition—with transparency.
It addresses common challenges for transitioning organizations, as well as the strategies Heartline took to overcome them.
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This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
On estime que 32 000 enfants vivent dans des orphelinats en Haïti. Plus de 80 % ne sont pas orphelins. 80 années de recherches démontrent le préjudice causé lorsqu’on élève les enfants dans des institutions. Par conséquent, la plupart des pays du monde en développement ont abandonné ce type de prise en charge depuis plusieurs années.
Le gouvernement haïtien a donné la priorité à la réduction de la dépendance envers la prise en charge en orphelinat pour s’assurer que les enfants peuvent être élevés dans des familles. Par ailleurs, il a mis en priorité la lutte contre la traite des…
According to this report from Lumos, of the estimated 32,000 children who live in orphanages in Haiti, only 20 are percent orphans. Eighty years of research demonstrates the harm caused by raising children in institutions. As a result, most countries in the developed world moved away from this form of care decades ago.
The Haitian government has prioritised reducing reliance on orphanage care, to ensure children can be raised in families. They have also prioritised addressing trafficking in children, another significant concern in Haiti.
However, well-intended donors and volunteers from…
Charts that accompany the Mother Jones article Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession by Kathryn Joyce, illustrating the trends in international adoptions from Liberia, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Haiti to families in the United States.
The Secretariat of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (the Hague Conference), noting with great concern the tragic situation in Haiti and the high number of children victims of the recent earthquake, would like to make the following information available to governments, international organisations and the public.
Following the earthquake, many children have become separated from their families and may find themselves without shelter, food, water or other basic necessities. They may also be at risk of illegal adoptions, abduction, sale and child trafficking.
The primary…
Using lessons learnt in emergencies, from the genocide in Rwanda to the Asian Tsunami and the earthquake in Haiti, our new report, Misguided Kindness, demonstrates what action is needed to keep families together during crises and to bring separated children back into a safe and nurturing family life. Save the Children warns that people who support orphanages or international adoption in the belief that they’re doing the best for children suffering after a major emergency could in fact be putting those children in even more danger.
A woman flew from Istanbul to Paris with an infant girl hidden inside her hand luggage, Air France has said. An airport source told AFP news agency that the woman was a resident of France who was in the process of adopting the child, from Haiti. It is not clear how old the child was - one source said she was four years old, another that it was a one- or two-year-old baby. The woman and the girl have been held at Charles de Gaulle airport while authorities investigate the case.
Opinion editorial on risks associated with using intercountry adoption as an emergency response to the needs of children in Haiti.
Statement noting potential dangers associated with ICA in emergencies with specific reference to risk of family separation.