Intern Lorianne looks back

In recent months, intern Lorianne has strengthened our team. Now that her internship at Adoption Support Center is behind her, she looks back on the past period and cautiously looks ahead to the future.

Hi there! I am Lorianne Deketelaere, an enthusiastic student of Applied Psychology at Howest in Bruges. With my teaching diploma already in hand, I decided last academic year to start the Applied Psychology course. Towards the end of my teacher training I did not feel completely satiated. It was during an elective course that focused on psychological well-being that my interest in psychology really started to grow. That subject stirred something in me that made me know that I wanted to continue with this.

For my second-year internship in Applied Psychology, I was given the opportunity to do an internship at Adoption Support Center. As an adoptee, this organization immediately captured my imagination and I was extremely curious about what I could learn there.

During my internship I gained a broad insight into what exactly adoption in Belgium entails. I had the opportunity to interview fascinating people and write articles about their experiences, operations and organizations. Furthermore, I was able to participate in numerous informative sessions, preparation meetings and training that enriched my knowledge about the adoption landscape and related themes (such as attachment and trauma).

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With a beginning in the Red Cross as a volunteer, Jean Ayoub became operations director during the Lebanese civil war. He then served on several field missions for the International Red Cross before relocating to Geneva to re-design and supervise Red Cross Red Crescent response to worldwide natural disasters as Director of Operations and IFRC Director of Cooperation and Development.

Jean went off then to Paris as the Director General for the French Telethon to refocus systems and teams on the main vision and mission of the Telethon umbrella association (AFM). Starting 2005 he worked several years as an independent advisor, consulting mainly on turnaround management situations and leadership coaching.

Jean is currently and since 2008 the Secretary General and CEO of International Social Service (ISS) driving with a dream team the full transformation of the organisation ahead of its 100th anniversary in 2024.

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Collective of French Adoptees from Mali (AFM Collective)

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Emmanuel Macron (President of the Republic)

LUCKNOW: A cradle was installed at Queen Mary’s Hospital of King George’s Medical University (KGMU) on Wednesday where parents, who choose to abandon their child due to either medical abnormality or social reasons, can leave the infant for better care.
Inaugurated by deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak, the cradle has been installed near the main gate of the hospital. Parents can leave their child in the cradle without revealing their identity.
 

A sensor system has also been put up which will alert the staff within two minutes about the baby.
The infant will then be adopted by the state.

The staff will run medical tests to check the overall well-being of the child and then send the child to the Childline for completion of adoption formalities and allotment of a shelter home. The move is expected to deter people from abandoning unwanted infants in the open, which endangers their lives.
On the occasion, Pathak appealed to parents to leave babies in the cradle so that they can be sent for foster care rather than abandoning them if they fail to take care of them for any reason.

He also said that no obstruction will be allowed in the operation of the shelter and the government will provide everything possible.

Head of the gynaecology and obstetrics department, Prof SP Jaiswar and officiating vice-chancellor Prof Vineet Sharma were present on the occasion.
 

The Uniform Civil Code is back in the news again after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong push for it. If it comes into force, separate personal laws governing marriages, divorce, and inheritance of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, and other communities will be subsumed. India Today takes a deep dive into the complications and vast issues of UCC.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for the creation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and criticised opposition parties for inciting minority communities against reform. Following this, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board said they would oppose the UCC, while political parties accused the BJP of trying to "distract" and "divert attention from real issues".

The UCC is the proposal to have one law for the entire country, which will apply to all religious communities in personal matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, succession, custody and adoption. The implementation of the UCC is likely to subsume personal laws in the country.

India Today takes a deep dive into the complications and questions that would be involved if UCC is implemented.

WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE COVERED UNDER UCC?

Bhopal: A sessions court here sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for killing a one-year-old child whom she & her husband had adopted from an orphanage in Ujjain.

According to the prosecution, the husband of the accused, Ramakant Sharma, had gone to JP hospital on December 12, 2017, with an infant who was declared dead by the doctors.

He told the doctors that the child is severely malnourished, and he was being treated at Hamidia hospital. Dr A K Agrawal informed Govindpura police over phone that a person had come with an infant, who was declared brought dead by Dr Sandeep Gupta after check-up. There were serious injuries on the head of the child. Govindpura police registered a case under section 302 of the IPC and section 23 of POCSO against unidentified accused and started investigation. During interrogation, the couple admitted that the child had fallen off the hands of the woman. It was also revealed that the child had developed severe malnourishment due to lack of proper care. Police had then arrested the accused and subsequently she was charged. tnn

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An inquest into the death of a baby murdered by his prospective adoptive mother will look at how his placement came about, a coroner has said.

Thirteen-month-old Leiland-James Corkill was killed by Laura Castle in Barrow, Cumbria, in January 2021.

Castle, 39, was convicted of murder and is serving at least 18 years in prison.

At a pre-inquest review, Cumbria assistant coroner Dr Nicholas Shaw said he would look at how Leiland-James's care was handled by local authorities.

Despite Castle's conviction, Dr Shaw said there was "sufficient reason" to hold an inquest to "inquire into events leading up to [the baby's] death" that were not covered by the court case.

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