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Canada: Two charged in adoption agency fraud case
From the Cambridge Times: Two former employees of the Cambridge not-for-profit international adoption agency Imagine Adoption Inc., were arrested and charged today with breach of trust and fraud in connection with $420,000 in allegedly misused funds. The agency’s former general manager Rick Hayhow, 46, was arrested today in Cambridge and founder and former executive director [...]
Ghana: 15 orphanages closed down
From The Ghanaian Chronicle: The Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare has closed down 15 orphanages, out of the one hundred and twenty seven operating in the country. This followed the rot exposé at the Osu Children’s home by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Enoch Teye Mensah [...]
Ghana: NGO urges government to abolish orphanges
From Myjoyonline.com: Orphanaid Africa, a non-government organization (NGO) that sponsors families to care for orphans instead of taking them to orphanages, is calling on government to abolish orphanages in Ghana. Awo Boatemaa Aboagye-Dankwa is the Head of Family Support Services at Orphanaid and she tells Asempa News orphanages are foreign to Ghanaian culture and even [...]
Ghana: Government probes sale of children from orphanages
From myjoyonline.com: The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has begun investigations into allegations of child trafficking at the Hohoe Christian Orphanage. The Deputy Executive Director of the EOCO in charge of Operations, Mr Charles Nii Adama Akrong, told the Daily Graphic that his office had reports that the Founder and Executive Director of the [...]
Change in Processing Timeline for Adoption Cases in Ghana
From the Department of State: The U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana wishes to advise adoptive parents of procedural changes that may increase the processing time for some adoption cases. Adoptive parents should be aware that an I-604 (Determination on Child for Adoption, sometimes referred to as “orphan investigation”) must be completed in connection with every [...]
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