Corruption in Nepal Child Adoption Business
We are the adoptive parents expecting a baby from Nepal. Nepal adoption process has been much delayed due to what happened recently. Several parents already withdrew from the process and switched to Ethiopia adoption program because they are tired of waiting (They had waited 3 years). We are still hanging in there, and we hope things will move forward in Nepal, and we really adore Nepali children. We are just wondering what is really going on with “Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare”. Are you familiar with this organization (www.mowscsw.gov.np)?
They are responsible to process all international adoptions from Nepal, and we are under the impression that one of the key positions in the department remains vacant, and nobody is really doing anything right now. If you know anything about current situation of this organization, We’d appreciate your help if you share your knowledge with us.
The parents adopting from Nepal are getting very desperate, rumors are circling around… We really don’t know who to believe. We are not supposed to get too much insider information during adoption process, but our fear is building up due to increased uncertainties. We hope all the children in orphanage are being properly cared, and the situation in Nepal will get better.
We are better off than many other parents adopting from Nepal. Lots of them have waited for over 2 years. We stay busy at work just to keep our mind off the adoption, because there is nothing we can do now to accelerate the Nepal adoption process. One of the other adoptive parents is flying to Nepal soon to personally find out what is really going on, I am afraid he is going to waste his effort, because situation will not change just because he is there.
We know Nepal government has a lot of other more important projects rather than taking care of international adoption. Whatever happens, we hope it will be the best for your people.
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i think they have changed the policy of adopting children. Adoption is a kind of business similar to human trafficking. Lots of children are gathered either orphan or with parents consensus. The parents are convinced that their children are safe in children houses. The parents usually accepts these due to poor condition. The owner of the children houses without giving any information to their actual parents sell these children to foreign people in the name of adoption. During these exchange lot of money around 5 thousand USD are paid by the adopter.
I am always against such act. meanwhile recently these have been the cases of sexual assault with these children in children houses.
Lots of European visit in these places and ask for providing help.Instead they go there for child pornography and child sex.Nepal government has expelled one French citizen nearly one years ago.
The following is from a letter to The Kathmandu Post:
Inter-country adoption
As someone who is actively involved in the adoption process in Nepal, I want to bring to light the fact that most officials and bureaucrats involved in international adoption process work only for their own interests, not those of the orphans put up for adoption (“A long wait for adoptive parents,” June 3, Page 3). The main problems with the current adoption process are as follows:
1. Bureaucrats’ self-interest: The reason for inordinate delay in foreign prospective parents getting children is that the Nepali officers want the agencies to contact them directly and pamper them, take them out for dinners and lavish them with gifts. So much so they want the agencies abroad to sponsor the children of the bureaucrats to study abroad!
The files of foreign officers from different agencies who come here and treat bureaucrats like royalties are handled without delay. The agencies that loyally wait for the process keep on waiting. Every week, the legal officer of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (WCSW) is busy with dinners with agencies and receiving gifts and directly assisting the various embassies and agencies, even though all agencies have their country representatives.
2. Blame game: In the news report, a WCSW ministry officer mentions he has received a list of 250 children for adoption, but orphanages are not cooperating with the process. But why don’t they process the cases they already have? The ministry is blaming orphanages only to escape calumny. The fact is 300 children have already been listed for adoption and 21 families even received the referral packets six months ago, but the families have not been asked to travel yet. The delay is to pressure the agencies and families to entertain bureaucrats. Around 400 children are adopted from Nepal every year. The ministry already has a list of 300. Why don’t they process those first?
3. Allowance agony: Another reason the ministry is not keen on holding meetings is that the meeting allowance for ministry officials has been reduced from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 500. The delay is an indirect pressure for increase in this allowance.
4. Manipulation and favouritism: The ministry has stopped giving file numbers of international families. Earlier, families could track their cases with the help of file numbers. But lately, in the name of computer programming, Nepali bureaucrats have stopped this practice in order to put the files of the agencies who entertain them ahead of those who don’t. In this age of information and technology, why is the ministry hiding file numbers if their intention is good?
At last, I want to appeal to Nepali bureaucrats not to play with future of orphans.
Ram Kumar Karki
by email
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=202438
please see the link >
http://about-orphans.blogspot.com
Adoption Nepal. Call for expression of adoptive parents.
Terre des Hommes calls to collect evidence – even anonymous – parents french, Switzerland or elsewhere …, having adopted a child in Nepal in uncertain circumstances.
Never give up. Just stick with it and your dream will come true. The children in Nepal are beautiful — poor, desititute and in need of loving homes. It will happen. Remember God is in control.
To me, it had seemed that the new amendment in this policy in the recent past was in the interest of interested foreign parents to adopt. The story seems to be quite the opposite here.
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