Comments on: Ukrainian orphan needs, history, and happenings

By: lorisam7879

lorisam7879 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:05:15 +0000

What a wonderful blog, I am so happy to hear there are people like you who want to make a difference in these children’s lives. My heart breaks reading the information I have about children over in Europe…. I wish there was more we could do.
On another note, I was surprised to see the Rapid Adoption link above…. we just used that same service for our adoption. Small world I guess…
Lori

By: mistyeyed

mistyeyed — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:41:39 +0000

What a great blog. I really appreciate reading this. I have really enjoyed your blog. I have been passing information about this onto my friends.

They’re gettting their adoption paperwork done through Rapid Adoption.com. It’s been going rather well. But the process is still long.

By: jeff.mowatt

jeff.mowatt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:31:04 +0000

Some time ago, this blog published several rather negative comments on the activities of my colleague and I in Ukraine and the article entitled ‘Death Camps for children’. A week ago however, Ukraine’s government announced the doubling of allowances for adopters, in line with the recommendations made in that article. In November 2006, our strategy paper on a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine had been delivered and began to bear fruit in the announcement of the creation of 400 rehabilitation centres for disabled children.

Most were too fearful to speak out about conditions inside some of the homes, but only a few weeks ago, a courageous Ukrainian named Albert Pavlov stood up for the children of Kalinovka which attracted immediate media attention. Kalinovka statistics indicate an annual death rate exceeding 10% and the photo report shows pictures of a child resident suffering from severe cachexia due to lack of medical attention along with graves dug in preparation.

We are now beginning a new project to make 10 model care centers of existing homes as a model for the 400 rehab centers which will be necessary, according to our calculations and as acknowledged in the government announcement of last year.

http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/publish/article?art_id=69671033&cat_id=32598
http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/publish/article?art_id=126094961
http://eng.maidanua.org/node/581
http://www.deti.zp.ua/eng/show_article.php?a_id=5219
http://ukrainechildrensorgs.p-ced.com

Jeff Mowatt
People-Centered Economic Development

By: igueros

igueros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:38:24 +0000

Translatorsvision.blogspot.com/

By: igueros

igueros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:30:02 +0000

Start reading from the last post.

By: igueros

igueros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:24 +0000

Find out about translator’s/facilitator’s vision of adoptions in Ukraine.
http://ranslatorsvision.blogspot.com/

By: juspasenthru

juspasenthru — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:13:40 +0000

I recently returned from Ukraine (for a successful adoption, yippee!) and it is a beautiful country. I think they have a lot to work with.

There is an excellent movie dealing with the Holocost in Ukraine: “Everything is Enlightened”. It also has some very funny moments in it if you can imagine. Check it out.