| Adopting from Ukraine last updated 6 Jun 2008 PROJECT EMPTY ORPHANAGE , Give An Orphan Hope (Updated Tues, 7 February 2006) "Currently there are approximately 125,000 children in Ukrainian orphanages. Many of these kids are "stuck" there because of inaccurate or missing paperwork. This project was designed to help kids' paperwork problems that stand between them and a loving family. In a pilot of this project, an orphanage of 170 children had 97 children "stuck" in the system because their parents had never legally released their children after abandoning them at the orphanage. Of these 97, we were able to resolve the paperwork issues for 27 children, thus giving them a chance to ba available for adoption by loving families. The cost to free these children is $60 per child. It is hard to imagine that for so many children, the only thing standing between them and the chance for a real family is $60 and a signature. Your donation of $60 will give a Ukrainian orphan a chance to be released from an unceratin future and give them a "fighting chance" at having a family that will love them like they have never experienced before." Ukraine NAC – http://www.nac.gov.ua/ A Must See The Forgotten Ukrainians (powerful pictures of some orphanage kids) http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/js_intro.htm Assessment of the Adoption System in the Ukraine - http://www.iss-ssi.org/Resource_Centre/New_Documents/ Adopt an Older or Special Needs child Daniel's Dream - low cost program to adopt a Ukrainian Orphan http://www.geocities.com/milesjazzy/ Deaf Children Adoption - http://www.focusonchildrenadopt.org/site/children/content.php?type=1&id=8942 Open Arms (setting up a program to help adopt older kids) - http://www.open-arms.org/page6.html Adoption Links Adoption Blog - http://americanexpat.blog-city.com/ Adoption Forums (Ukraine) - http://forums.adoption.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=22 Adoption Fundraising - http://financingadoption.com/ Adoption (facts and procedures) - http://www.ukraineadoption.bravehost.com/ Adoption Webring - http://ukraineadoption.bravehost.com/webring.html Doyle Authentications - http://home.earthlink.net/~documentman/ (Can assist with Visas and Child registration) Fertile Thoughts (Ukraine forum) - http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/search.php? Handy Translations - http://www.translations.kiev.ua/index.php?lang=en His Kids Too - http://www.hiskidstoo.org/ (Has a ton of info on travel, dossiers and will even help you find a facilitator) Rate Your Agency/Facilitator (My Child Too) - http://www.mychildtoo.org/ Right Protection Fund http://www.rpf.kiev.ua/areas.htm (Only works with agencies) Translator (Oksana Travnova) http://www.geocities.com/welcome2ukraine/ Translators in Ukraine http://www.translator.in-ukraine.com Ukraine Adoption.com - http://ukraine.adoption.com Ukraine Adoption Personal Home page- http://ukraineadoption.bravehost.com/ (has a great cost breakdown!) Ukraine Adoption Webring - http://pub47.bravenet.com/sitering/show.php?usernum=3993495347 Ukraine Oblast rating for adoption – http://www.adopt-sense.com/ukraine.htm#REGIONS Ukrainian Web - Child Adoption - http://www.ukrainianweb.com/ukraine_adoption.htm Adoption Process - http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_343.html Agencies - Click Here Charitable Abrah (supporting orphanages in Kherson, Antoshka and Roschitsa Children's Homes) - http://www.abrah.org Aid for Orphans - http://www.aidfororphans.org/aboutus.htm An Orphans Bright Star - http://www.orphansbrightstar.org/home.html (Chinadievo Children's Home, Dnepropetrovsk Baby Orphanage (Denpropetrovsk), Kremenchuk Baby Orphanage (Poltava), Svalyava Baby Orphanage (Zakarpattia) , Zhitomir Baby Orphanage (Zhitomir) , Zhitomir Internat (Zhitomir) Big Family Charity - http://www.bigfamilycharity.org Orphanages: Pryluky (Chernihiv), Odessa #5 (Odessa), Borzna (Chernihiv), Yablunivka Children's Fund of Philadelphia - Ukrainian Orphaned Children's Fund of Philadelphia - http://uocfp.ihoststudio.com Direct Help for Children - http://www.directhelpforchildren.org/ukraine.htm Disabled and Vunerable Orphans of Ukraine http://www.dvou.org Dobrota (Donetsk City Charity Fund) - http://www.dobrota.donetsk.ua/english/pprojects.htm Everychild (social protection organization) - http://www.everychild.org.ua/en/ Friends of Svieta - http://www.svieta.org Frontier Horizon (Mission to Ukrainian Orphans) http:/www.frontierhorizon.org Frua Northern California (Help to Ukraine Orphans) - http://www.orgsites.com/ca/fruanorcal/UkraineOrphans.html Hope Now (supporting orphans in Cherkassy region) -http://www.hopenow.org.uk/o_about.html Hope Teams (supporting orphans in First Stage Orphanage in Berdyansk and Primorsk) - http://www.hopeteams.org/ukraine.htm Hopeful Hearts Foundation (support to several orphanages in Kiev) - http://hopefulheartsfoundation.org/ Help us Help the Children (Canadian) -http://www.chornobyl.ca/page-projects.html Hope for Orphans Worldwide (host an orphan) - http://www.hopefororphansoftheworld.org/ iOrphan - http://www.iorphan.org (Gorlovka Hope, Gorlovka Infant Hospital, Makeevka "Snowdrops" (Donetsk), Snezhnoye Orphanage, Torez Internat (Donetsk), Torez Special Needs Orphanage (Donetsk)) International Charity Organization “Look” (looking after street kids in Ukraine) - http://www.vzglyad.org.ua/html/en/boutmen.html Karing for Kramatorsk - http://karingforkramatorsk.tripod.com/ Les Amis de Svieta (helping children w/ severe physical disease in Nikolaiev district) - http://svieta.tribu.ch/e/home.php and http://www.svieta.org Life2Orphans - http://www.life2orphans.org/ (Directly helps 460 orphans in several orphanages in Ukraine) Living hope for Orphans - http://www.livinghopefororphans.org/index.html Master Care (places orphans with Ukrainian families) - http://www.masterprovisions.org/f-mastercare.htm New Hope International (Foster Care Program takes children out of state-run orphanages, and place them into Christian families) - https://secure15.hostek.net/secure1/newhopeinternational/fostercare/fostercare.htm Odessa Children Fund - http://www.odessachildrenfund.org Orphans' Future - http://www.orphansfuture.org/ Orphans Hope (Crimea regions) http://www.orphanshope.org/ukraine.htmojectl Orphans Hope Foundation - http://www.ohfound.org (Orphanage Borzna in Chernihiv) “Our Future” Charitable Fund (Vinnists Regions) - http://www.is.svitonline.com/red_sun/index.htm Peach Tree Angels Network (works with an orphanage near Matveevka) - http://www.ptcangelsnetwork.org/about.htm Sense Resource Center – http://www.adopt-sense.com Ukraine Children's Project - http://www.childrenofukraine.org/ Ukraine Special Needs Orphanage Fund - http://www.specialorphans.org/ Also check out these two links (early intervention program for children with handicaps at Rivne Orphanage http://ibis-birthdefects.org/start/usnofund.htm and http://ibis-birthdefects.org/start/pahinets.htm. Ukrainian American Center for Excellence (supports orphanages in Kiev) http://www.ulrmc.org.ua/events/2002/120202.html Ukrainian Charity Fund - http://www.partner.org.ua/eng/aboutus/index.shtml Ukrainian Children Aid Center - http://www.ukr-cac.org Ukrainian Children's Aid and Relief Effort - http://www.ucareinc.org/pages/1/index.htm Universal Aid for Children (Ukraine) http://www.uacadoption.org/ Volunteer in Ukraine - http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/ukraine/volunteer_in_ukraine.htm World Orphan Project (offers info on and assitance to orphans and orphanages) - http://www.worldorphanproject.com Cultural All things Ukrainian - www.allthingsukrainian.com Art Ukraine.com - http://www.artukraine.com/index.htm Brama.com (Info, Entertainment, News, etc - http://www.brama.com/ Guide to Ukraine - http://ukraine.uazone.net/ My Ukraine (travel, culture, art geography, photos) - http://myukraine.info/en/ UA Zone.net (Ukrainian Info Project) - http://www.uazone.net/ Ukraina.com (search engine) – www.ukraina.com Ukraine News – www.ukrainenews.com Ukraine Links of Interest - http://www.allvirtualware.com/ukrsoft/ulinks.htm Ukrainians in Canada (fascinating site with tons of info) - http://www.infoukes.com/ US/Ukraine Foundation – http://www.usukraine.org/ Government Consular Offices of the Ukraine – divided into states and which office you should contact - http://ukraineinfo.us/consular/consular.html Minister of Foreign Affairs (Adoption page) http://www.mfa.gov.ua/eng/consul/?children National Adoption Center (NAC) - http://www.nac.gov.ua Ukraine Consul General of NY - http://www.brama.com/ua-consulate/ Ukraine Embassy Washington DC - http://www.ukraineinfo.us/consular/visas.html Ukrainian Gov't Site for Adoption (use Babel to translate) - http://www.geocities.com/adoption_ua2003/ US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine - http://usinfo.usemb.kiev.ua/amcit_adoptions_eng.html Orphanage Links - Click Here Weather Weather Underground (Kyiv) http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/33345.html Changes, corrections - email me (mgummere @ yahoo.com) 4/26/06 |
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