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Any look at Africa adoptions can be complicated, as this story from Nigeria proves. With international Africa adoptions all being country-specific, a lack of understanding of just how things work can cause a world of problems. In all aspects of adoption, educating yourself is the first and most important step, and trying to do adopt without going through every single on of the steps can lead to heartache.
A Nigerian-born, Canadian citizen adopted a Nigerian child, and is now not able to obtain a Canadian visa for her new daughter. She and her son were stuck in the country for months, and have had to leave the girl behind and return to Calgary.
Apparently, she thought she had complied with rules and regs, but traveled before the process was complete. Some hitch hit while she was away, and nothing has been sorted out since.
What a mess.
And speaking of messes, the American family trying to adopt from South Africa are still hopeful they’ll succeed..
Although they recently lost their appeal to the Supreme Court in South Africa, the reasoning the Court used may have been influenced by testimony from Social Welfare workers who have given completely different stories on radio talk shows than they did under oath.
This complicated drama with a small child in the balance … an infant that was found abandoned head first in a bucket under a tree … has been going on for more than eighteen months already.
Another mess.
And a mess on a larger scale, Zimbabwe, and an infusion of yet more money again taking pressure off Mugabe to govern.
The UN Children’s Fund is happy about $800,000 from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, and their rep is quoted as saying, “With the growing challenges related to vulnerable children and limited resources, it is vital that we get maximum impact with every penny we spend.”
Duh.
Excuse me for noticing, but wouldn’t it be so much more helpful if the UN put the screws to Zimbabwe’s corrupt dictator rather than try to pass of nonsense like this:
The contribution is set to improve lives of orphans and other vulnerable children through enhancing peer education and outreach to vulnerable young people by youth volunteers. HIV and Aids, said Dr Kavishe, remains a critical area that demands regular programmes on awareness and prevention.
It’s pretty clear that the lives of orphans and vulnerable children aren’t about to improve when inflation is going up by the millions of percentage points and the whole country is going to hell in a handbasket at the speed of light.
Sheesh.
And from Ghana, here’s a story about parents of teenage mothers begging them to come get their kids, saying that the University of Cape Coast is becoming a place where “school dropouts are giving birth to children carelessly”.
Yeah. Another mess.
