| Adopting from Belarus
last updated 29 Apr 2008 Status: On Hold http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/notices/notices_2789.html Adoption Agencies God’s Families - http://www.godsfamilies.org/ Happy Families - http://www.happyfamilies.org/p_belarus.html International Assistance Group - http://www.iagadoptions.org/ IAA - http://www.IAA-Belarus.org Our Children’s Homestead - http://www.ourchildrenshomestead.org/adoption.asp Small World Adoption Foundation – http://www.swaf.com Agencies (Canadian) Adoption Options - http://www.adoptionoptions.com Adoption Horizons - http://www.adoptionhorizons.com/ Adoption Groups Adoption from Belarus - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adoption_From_Belarus/ Belarus Travel - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BelarusTravel/ Eeadopt (Belarus) - http://www.eeadopt.org/home/services/mlists/index.html Adoption Links Adoption Forums - http://forums.adoption.com/f158.html Belarus.Adoption.Com - http://belarus.adoption.com/ Belarus Children's Homes List- http://www.interfax.by/?id=7_5_11 Belarus Ireland Adoption & Parents Society Ltd. - http://www.belarussupportgroup.com/ International Christian Charitable Center (adoption info) - http://hope.by/programs.htm#prgAdp Adoption Procedures http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_354.html Note - Immigrant visas are not issued in Belarus, issuance of immigrant visas is handled by the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. All adoptions of children in Belarus must go through the Belorusian National Adoption Center. Prospective parents wanting to adopt a child from Belarus should contact: Belarusian National Adoption Center: Mrs. Olga Karaban, Director Platonova Str. 22, 11th Floor, Minsk, BELARUS , Tel: 375 - 17-232-6701 Fax: 375 - 17-231-0617 Charitable American Belarussian Relief Organization (ABRO) -http://www.abro.org/Contacts.html (Host an orphan for summer program) Belarus Orphanage Project (Irish Charity to support an orphanage in Belarus) - http://www.bopuk.org/ Belarussian Aid for Children - http://beren.ml.uwcm.ac.uk:9080/baccup/about.htm Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK Charity) - http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/aboutbel.html Christian Children’s Fund (working in Belarus) – http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/content.aspx?id=196 Chernobyl Children Lifeline - http://www.midsurreylink.org/CCLL%20Overview.htm Hilfe fur die kinder von Tschernobyl (Help for the Children of Chernobyl) links about the nuclear accident, maps, charitable actions, etc) http://www.tschernobylhilfe.ffb.org/belar_gb.htm Leaves of Hope - http://www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk/ Novi Dom (projects for children with disabilities) - http://www.worldjewishrelief.org.uk/projects/?id=71 Orphans First - http://www.orphansfirst.org/locality/belarus.html Save our Treehouse (interesting site w/ lots of links) - http://www.saveourtreehouse.com/SaveOurTreehouse/missions/missions.asp Swiss Cooperation Office Belarus - http://www.sdc.by/ Voice of Heart (taking care of disabled children in institutions) - http://www.hungerplus.org/project-pages/belarus.htm Cultural Belarus Inside! (photos) - http://eka.8m.com/main_en.html Belorusian Cook Book - txt.knihi.com/kuchnia/cuisine.html Belorusian Heritage (traditional clothing, heraldry, famous Belarusians, towns, architecture) - http://www.belarusguide.com/as/heritage/heritage.html Belorusian Language (dictionaries and language utilities, dynamic links collection) - http://www.pravapis.org/ History of Belarrusian Jews - http://www.beljews.info/ Gov’t Links Belarus Embassy (Washington DC) - http://www.belarusembassy.org/ Minister of Foreign Affairs - http://www.mfa.gov.by/eng/index.php?d=policy/multicoop&id=4 Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (runs 9 orphanages for the disabled) – http://mintrud.gov.by National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus - http://ncpi.gov.by/eng/index.htm President Lukashenko - http://www.president.gov.by/eng/ US Embassy (Belarus) - http://minsk.usembassy.gov/ US Diplomatic Mission to Poland - http://warsaw.usembassy.gov/poland/consular.html Links of Interest A Belarus Miscellany (various things, including a chat forum) – http://www.belarus-misc.org/ Belarus - A Country Study - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/bytoc.html Belarus Bible Society (info about various orphanages and orphan shelters) - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Belarus country info - http://www.geocities.com/vysotskaya Belarus On-line (gov’t, travel links) - http://www.belarus-online.com/ Belarus Internet Forums - http://www.belarusguide.com/reference1/Internet.html Facts About Chernobyl Radioactive Disaster - http://www.belarusguide.com/chernobyl1/chfacts.htm International Chernobyl Information Platform - http://www.chernobyl.info Photos of Belarus - http://photo.promedia.by Virtual guide to Belarus - http://www.belarusguide.com Maps /Geography Belarus Guide (road/railway maps, maps of the contaminated sites, etc) - http://www.belarusguide.com/nature1/Maps.html Belarus Oblasts: Brestskaya, Gomel'skaya, Grodnenskaya, Minskaya, Mogilevskaya, Vitebskaya - http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Belarus/Oblasts/ Krasnopol'ye (Mogilev region) http://www.region.mogilev.by/eng/ Map of Belarus - http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/geography/BELARU.GIF Perry Casteneda Maps (Univeristy of Tx) - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/belarus.html News Barc News - http://www.barcnews.org/index_en.shtml Charter 97 News - http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/ Topix (News from Belarus) - http://www.topix.net/world/belarus Belarus News Links (lots of links) - http://www.abyznewslinks.com/belar.htm Belgazeta.com - http://www.belgazeta.com/ Minsk News (English) htttp://www.minksnews.com Vecherny Minsk (daily private newspaper) http://www.belarus.net/minsk_ev Orphanages (some don't have links yet) Baranovichsky Home (mentally retarded children-invalids) - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Belarus Tarbut School and Orphanage of Stolin - http://shacham.net/stolin/tarbut.html Belinichi Orphanage Belynichskaja Auxiliary Boarding School - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Blon Orphanage - http://www.samaritans-purse.ie/projects/blon.asp Bogushevsky Internat (Vitebsk) ( psychophysical development) Borisovskaja Sanatorium Boarding school - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Borovliani Rehabilitation Centre - http://www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk/Refurbishment_Programme_2004.htm Brest Children Asylum - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Chausy Orphanage - http://www.recorder.ca/cac/orph/orpcha.htm Chervensky Internat (Minsk) (psychophysical development) - Cliotsk Children's Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Copyl Support Boarding School - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Detdom No. 94, Minsk - http://detdom94.at.tut.by/detdom.files/frame.htm Divin Orphanage (Brest) Dubrovka Orphanage, Marina Gorka Hospital, Rudsyusk School - http://www.links-with-belarus.org.uk/projects/projects.htm Evenets Children's Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Gomel Children’s Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Gorodishchensky Internat (Brest) - Grodno State Children's Home of the Mixed Type - http://oic.unibel.by/ detdom/ (has list of kids available for adoption) Grozova Orphanage - Holopenichsky Children's Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Ivenez orphanage - Ivenetsky Internat (Minsk) - Kakehashi to Chernobyl (orphanage support program) - http://www.kakehashi.or.jp/index_e.htm Karolina Orphanage Karin Dom Center for Children with Special Needs - http://www.digsys.bg/eunetweb/karindom/index_en.html Kholopenichi Children's Home - Kletsky Children's Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Kobryn Children Village. Kopyl Boarding School/Orphanage - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Krugloye Boarding school - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Logoisk Asylum - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Ljuta Boarding School Luda Orphanage - http://www.missionbelarus.com/photos.html Minsk Gov't Web Page (info on several orphanages) www.minsk.gov.by/cgi-bin/org_tem.pl?mode=soc&k_rub=13&k_det=850&k_rn=0&lang=eng Minsk Children's home (for children-invalids with features of psychophysical development) - Minsk Orphanage No. 1 - Minsk Orphanage No. 2 - Minsk Orphanage No. 6 - http://chsch6.minsk.edu.by/ Minsk Orphanage No. 7 (Minsk, street Kizhevatova, 68. Phones: 277-49-02, 212-70-61) - http://minsk.kp.ru/2004/05/13/doc22319/ Minsk Orphanage No. 8 - Mogilev Orphanage - http://www.recorder.ca/cac/orph/orpmog.htm Mogilev Children’s Hospital Molodechno Orphanage - http://www.firstbaptistog.org/2004_belarus_trip.htm Novi Dom (New House) - http://www.mortehoe.clara.net/NUFWeb/archives/srpage27.html Novinki State Orphanage in Minsk (Unit 5) – http://www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk/home.html Osipovichi Internat - "Ponemunsky” state children's home of the mixed type - http://oic.unibel.by/detdom (has a link for adoption) Rechitskaja Internat (Gomel)a (for children with physical defects) - Slonin Orphanage - http://www.hopeproject.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/twomules.html Slutskaja Boarding School - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Stan'kovo Children's Home - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm SOS Children’s Villages - http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/html/belarus_select_a_village.html SOS Children’s Village Borovljany - http://sos-kd.ht.by/ru/catalog/view_6.html SOS Children’s Village “Maryin Gorka” - http://sos-kd.ht.by/ru/catalog/view_7.html SOS Children’s Village “The Youth house Bangalore” - http://sos-kd.ht.by/ru/catalog/view_8.html SOS Social Center of Mother and the child - http://sos-kd.ht.by/ru/catalog/view_9.html Stankova Orphanage - Vashiliski Orphanage - http://www.bopuk.org/vashiliski.htm Vesnova Orphanage - Zhdanovitchi orphanage - http://www.leaves-of-hope.co.uk/autumnconvoy2003.htm Zhodina Boarding School - http://www.belinternat.ngo.by/enZhod1.php Zhodino Boarding School - http://www.biblia-by.org/en/etexts/may02.htm Zhodinskaja Boarding School - http://www.biblia-by.org/rtexts/may02.htm Zhuravichsky Internat (Gomel) - Photos Pictures of Belarus Cities (scroll about ˝ down) - http://www.pbase.com/world/belarus Pictures of Places (Belarus) - http://www.picturesofplaces.com/Europe/belarus.html Travel Photos by Galin Frysinger - http://www.galenfrysinger.com/bellorussia.htm Weather Weather - http://www.wunderground.com/global/BY.html Time and Date (Minsk) - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=285 Comments, suggestions - e-mail me (mgummere @ yahoo.com) 4/3/06 |
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