AMERICA’S NEW LIFE CHILDREN’S REFUGE: RESCUER OR TRAFFICKER? (1st Feb 2010, 1115 Hrs)
Barely three weeks ago, Haiti experienced the worst ever earthquake and more than 2 million people lost their lives, homes and everything they ever had. The catastrophe also left many homeless and orphaned with traumatic consequences that is haunting one and all there. However, I was shocked yesterday to watch on BBC a group of Americans, who claimed themselves belonged to the Idaho-based charity called New Life Children’s Refuge, were caught by Haitian Police with 31 children aged 2 months to 12 years when they were trying to slip out of the country.
These Americans were caught red handed because they didn’t had any papers of adoption made compulsory by the government. Worldwide it is illegal to leave any country without proper documents. Such a callous approach when the country and these 31 children have lost their families, home and their every day lives in their own country, these Americans can be so opportunistic to quietly slip out with so many children for trafficking scheme to make money??? Well, how low we can stoop even during such a disasterous calamity??? These Americans have proved that to earn that extra dollar by selling these children to various couples in their homeland, they would go to any extent… even if it means smuggling these suffering children undetected and illegally during such catastrophe!
Now relatives of these 10 Americans have come in support by saying that there is a misunderstanding as they were trying to rescue these children. Rescuing without proper documents and papers??? Strange because they claim themselves to belong to the charity group New Life Children’s Refuge… don’t they know what the official procedures are to travel from one country to another, so why were they sneaking out to Dominican Republic without any papers??? Illegal adoption schemes are prevalent in America and these so-called Americans should know what an act of nobleness is!!! Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin was quoted – “This is abduction, not an adoption.”
Strange but true, we humans have lost all its credibility of humanity in today’s modern world, where making more money by any means is considered a business!
Barely three weeks ago, Haiti experienced the worst ever earthquake and more than 2 million people lost their lives, homes and everything they ever had. The catastrophe also left many homeless and orphaned with traumatic consequences that is haunting one and all there. However, I was shocked yesterday to watch on BBC a group of Americans, who claimed themselves belonged to the Idaho-based charity called New Life Children’s Refuge, were caught by Haitian Police with 31 children aged 2 months to 12 years when they were trying to slip out of the country.
These Americans were caught red handed because they didn’t had any papers of adoption made compulsory by the government. Worldwide it is illegal to leave any country without proper documents. Such a callous approach when the country and these 31 children have lost their families, home and their every day lives in their own country, these Americans can be so opportunistic to quietly slip out with so many children for trafficking scheme to make money??? Well, how low we can stoop even during such a disasterous calamity??? These Americans have proved that to earn that extra dollar by selling these children to various couples in their homeland, they would go to any extent… even if it means smuggling these suffering children undetected and illegally during such catastrophe!
Now relatives of these 10 Americans have come in support by saying that there is a misunderstanding as they were trying to rescue these children. Rescuing without proper documents and papers??? Strange because they claim themselves to belong to the charity group New Life Children’s Refuge… don’t they know what the official procedures are to travel from one country to another, so why were they sneaking out to Dominican Republic without any papers??? Illegal adoption schemes are prevalent in America and these so-called Americans should know what an act of nobleness is!!! Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin was quoted – “This is abduction, not an adoption.”
Strange but true, we humans have lost all its credibility of humanity in today’s modern world, where making more money by any means is considered a business!
4 comments:
Interesting how you project evil intent on people trying to help relocate children living in destroyed orphanages.
Their guilt is probably naivete, compounded by an unwillingness to bribe their way out of confrontation with Haitian authorities:
"Orphanages were destroyed in the earthquake and many of the children who were living there were not actually orphans but had been left by families who could not afford to care for them."
Most Americans would assume, unless informed otherwise, that kids in orphanages are actually: orphans!
Thank you for your feedback and I do agree with your opinion as well when I look and think about the other side of the coin...
However, an organization which deals with Children's Refuge can overlook the BASIC NORMS is and cannot be accepted in any which ways... may be you may not agree but I strongly feel when a man has good intentions, he will follow the legal path and not the illegal way of smuggling children (I am sure you know that millions of children are illegally bought and sold in various countries) and get caught to be embarrassed in front of the whole world!
I respect your opinion and do agree that there are many organisation who are doing a great deal of work in settling orphans all over the world, but when such issues crop up, one has to look at the ground realities...
What right do these people have to bring these children out of Haiti and subject them to religious indoctrination? EJT
Did you notice this "Hotel" in the Dominican Republic had plenty of rooms for "Adoptive Parents" to stay in the DR for the required 60 to 90 days to make the adoption legal? That the original mission was to take children under 12 out of Haiti? Children under 12 have no say in the adoption process in the Dominican Republic. Don't take my word for it, read the New Life Children's Refuge's own flyer: http://www.esbctwinfalls.com/clientimages/24453/pdffiles/haiti/nlcrhaitianorphanrescuemission.pdf
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