Would-be adoptive parents take action

As agency goes bust, families organize to try to get kids to Canada

Jul 19, 2009 04:30 AM

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DALE ANNE FREED

Alta., feds to help families left in lurch by adoption agency

By KATIE SCHNEIDER, SUN MEDIA

Last Updated: 19th July 2009, 12:39am

CALGARY -- The province is teaming up with the feds to help speed up the international adoption process for Albertan families after the agency they were counting on went bankrupt.

Ontario-based Kids Link, which operates Imagine Adoption, announced Monday it had gone belly-up, leaving 64 families, including six whose adoptions have been approved, in the dark.

Firm's collapse impacts P.E.I.

JIM DAY

The Guardian

Solutions are being sought for six Island families left in limbo after an international adoption agency went bust, says the P.E.I. adoption co-ordinator.

Richey Mayne says the province is looking to the federal government to explore what can be done for Island families eager to complete the adoptions they started through Imgaine Adoption in hopes of adopting children from Ethiopia.

Wartime orphans of shame unite

Published Date: 19 July 2009

By John Tagliabue in Paris

WHEN Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he has spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of France's foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.

But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, Germany, he handled them with special delicacy – if investigations under way bear fruit, one of the men in the black and white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father wADVERTISEMENT

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Jennifer Ziegler of Kitchener holds a photo of the 10-month-old girl she has adopted in Ethiopia. Ziegler, who arranged the adoption through Imagine Adoption, was to leave for Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, late July 17, 2009.

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Adopted kids stranded in Ethiopia

Ardrossan family plans rescue trip despite government advice to wait

BY JAMIE HALL, EDMONTON JOURNALJULY 18, 2009

Mark Kostelyk will fly Monday to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to bring his two newly adopted children home with him to Ardrossan.

Kostelyk and his wife, Sharla, are among about 400 Canadian families, including six from Alberta, whose adoptions through Ontario-based Imagine Adoption are in limbo after its collapse earlier this week.

Adoption chaos for local family

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7/18/2009

After spending over two years going through the adoption process a local family are worried about actually getting their kids to Canada after the bankruptcy of their agency: Imagine Adoption.

What went wrong with adoption group?

July 18, 2009

The damage caused by the bankruptcy of a Cambridge-based international adoption agency this week cannot be reckoned in dollars alone. It must be measured in human heartbreak and dashed human hopes, and from this perspective the cost is absolutely staggering.

At this very moment in Africa, South America and the Caribbean, dozens of children who were waiting to come to new homes in Canada face an uncertain future because of the bankruptcy filing by Kids Link International Adoption Agency, which operated under the name Imagine Adoption. Imagine how fearful some of them must be.

And at this very moment, up to 450 families from across Canada who have invested time, energy, emotion and, in many cases $20,000, are torn by confusion and doubt because they do not know if their dreams of adoption, which they may have worked years to achieve, will ever happen. Imagine their anger and pain.