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I ran into a couple of nice adoption news stories recently. I found the first one thanks to a poster on FRUA chat board.
It is about a domestic Ukrainian adoption that should happen in August. And it fits with what the SDA has been saying about timeline.
1996 Olympic all-around champion Lilia Podkopayeva of Ukraine says her upcoming agenda includes adopting a child in August
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Podkopayeva said she and her husband, Timofey Nagorny, are looking forward to adopting a 7-month-old boy named Vadim. The adoption process should be complete in August, she said.
Podkopayeva said she and Nagorny were inspired to adopt a child based on their work with young people in Ukraine, including orphans and children infected with HIV/AIDS. The couple was especially interested in adopting a child from their hometown of Donetsk, where Vadim was born.
“There are 200,000 kids without parents in Ukraine,” said Podkopayeva, whose work often takes her to orphanages and hospitals around her country. “When you see those kids, you feel so badly for them. They look so sad, even when they’re healthy. We thought about (adopting) for a long time. We’re ready.”
After winning the all-around and floor exercise titles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Podkopayeva and her coach, Galina Losinskaya, relocated to the Tampa area. Podkopayeva now spends most of the year in Ukraine, but said she intends to continue working in the U.S. every summer.
From: Big Plans for Podkopayeva // July 8, 2006
And here is a older child adoption story. Siblings are being reunited through a hosting program.
Yuri Mashkarynets is 14. His sister, Diana, is 12. The two haven’t seen each other since they were toddlers in a Ukrainian orphanage.
The Roberts family of the Eastmont section of Wilkins expects to change that today with a reunion that has been long in the planning and may lead to Yuri joining his sister as an adopted member of the family.
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Diana and Yuri were orphaned a decade ago, and they were together in an orphanage for a while. But Yuri was moved out as he got older, and the siblings lost touch with each other.
Diana came into the Robertses’ life three years ago.
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they adopted Diana in 2003. At first, they were told she had no living relatives.
It isn’t unusual for this to happen. Paperwork gets lost and found. Sometimes a translator will be afraid to mention siblings or living parents/grandparents. Adoptive parents, who want to know more, need to gently push for more information.
But they quickly learned that she, indeed, had a brother, Yuri, who was in Holland.
The Robertses talked about adopting Yuri, too, but backed off when they were told he was in Holland for medical reasons. They later learned, however, that was not true and Yuri had only been there on a summer vacation.
Being persistent and trying different avenues of communication does help. And it really helped this family.
A year later, Mrs. Roberts said, she decided to try to contact Yuri by letter.
Months passed with no return word from the boy. But in September, to the family’s surprise, a letter written in Russian and translated into English landed in their mailbox.
More letters were exchanged and, with the help of a nonprofit group called Life2Orphans, the Robertses learned enough about Yuri to decide they would try to adopt him, and reunite the siblings.
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