What are institutions?

Institutions are long-stay residential facilities that segregate and confine people with disabilities. They are characterized by a regimented culture. Institutions process people in groups and discourage individuality, impose mass treatment, and rely on a status imbalance between staff and residents. Institutions limit personal possessions, and have fixed timetables for activities like eating and walking—irrespective of residents’ preferences or needs.

Residents of institutions have no privacy or personal space, must live with people they have not chosen and may not like, and cannot pursue personal interests or relationships. An institution is not defined by size: even small-scale facilities can perpetuate these conditions.

What is deinstitutionalization and why is it necessary?

Deinstitutionalization is the gradual relocation of residents to regular, community-based housing. It is accompanied by the development of services that support inclusion and participation in the community, and that offer flexible and personal assistance, support, and coordination so people can live the lives they want.

One complaint after another about tampering with adoptions

There are more and more testimonies about fraud in adoptions from Ethiopia between 1997 and 2017. In 48 hours our editorial staff already received 15 testimonials from adoptive parents who claimed that serious mistakes had been made. They demand an investigation. Minister of Welfare Jo Vandeurzen is examining whether that is a possibility.

It started last weekend with a testimony from 17-year-old Thereza De Wannemaeker from Denderleeuw, but in the meantime more and more Flemish people are coming out with their story about fraud in an adoption file from Ethiopia. The past 48 hours have already received 15 testimonials from our editors. There are serious errors in this. Parents who were wrongly declared dead, children who were pressured to lie about their age and children who were wrongly presented as siblings. Almost all the files were handled through the adoption agency Ray of Hope and went through the same contact person in Ethiopia. "We remain convinced that the man did everything according to the procedures," says Ray of Hope.

Our witnesses dispute that and state that they informed the adoption agency years ago. They are now addressing the Flemish government. "This needs to be investigated." Minister of Welfare Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V) is looking at what is possible. “We cannot just request all files, that would be a violation of privacy. But we are looking at how we can bring more clarity. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden have already decided to investigate past adoption practices. That is the only way to get an idea of ??what went wrong. ”Between 1997 and 2017, 936 children from Ethiopia came to Flanders.

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New testimonials about fraud in adoption from Ethiopia

New testimonials have appeared about fraud in adoptions from Ethiopia. The adoption of the 936 Ethiopian children who came to Flanders between 1997 and 2017 may have made mistakes, as was shown last weekend by a testimony from a 17-year-old girl from Denderleeuw in Het Laatste Nieuws. The newspaper has now received 15 new testimonials. VRT NWS is looking for parents and children who may be the victims of adoption fraud.

After the story of last weekend, 15 testimonials were received from Het Laatste Nieuws of adoptions from Ethiopia that were cheated on. In adoptions, for example, biological parents were wrongly declared dead and children had to present themselves as siblings while they were not even blood relatives. Children also had to lie about their age.

The adoptions took place between 1997 and 2017 and almost all were handled by the same adoption agency, Ray of Hope. They were all treated on the spot by one and the same contact person, as is usually the case.

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Jaak Albert was abducted from Rwanda and grew up in Belgium without identity

Jaak Albert is 66 years old, father of three children and grandfather of five grandchildren. After his military service, he became the first black police officer at the Antwerp police, where he worked up as an inspector and retired in 2012. That is the success story of his life, but also a very incomplete summary. "I have always felt like a third-class citizen."

Albert is also the man without a birth certificate, who has a family name made up by a nun and who, although his father was a Belgian, had to apply for citizenship himself and had to wait four years. Someone who has spent more time in the Belgian administrative maze than is good for a person.

When Albert wanted to marry his current wife in 2006, he first had to go to court with two witnesses to declare that he was born in Rwanda. That was not the first time, and again he had to wait months and months for a decision. “Until the end of July it was unclear whether our wedding could take place on 5 August. For my wife that was nerve-racking. ”

Albert, living in Kasterlee near Turnhout, is a "metis": the son of a white, Belgian colonial and a black woman. He was born in 1952 in Gisenyi, Rwanda, then a "mandate region" of Belgium. Children from mixed relationships were seen by the colonial government in the 1940s and 1950s as a threat to the colonial system. In many cases they were taken away from their mother and brought up in Catholic boarding schools.

14 newborns sold to couples across the State; 8 persons held

Director General of Police T.K. Rajendran on Monday issued orders to the Crime Branch Central Investigation Department (CB CID) to probe child trafficking cases in Government Hospital, Rasipuram and Kolli hills hamlets in Namakkal district.

A recorded conversation between a retired nursing assistant, R. Amuthavalli, 50, of Valliyammal Nagar in Rasipuram with an unidentified man posing as a buyer went viral on social media.

Subsequently, Deputy Director of Health Services K. Ramesh Kumar lodged a complaint with the All Women Police Station at Rasipuram to probe the child trafficking racket.

The police picked up Amuthavalli, who had served in hospitals at Salem, Pallipalayam, Tiruchengodu and Velur, before joining the Government Hospital at Rasipuram.

President Arib of the House of Representatives intervenes at ProDemos, the Hague institute that, among other things, provides guided tours of the Binnenhof for pupils and students. There will be an independent external investigation into reports of sexual abuse by a manager.

Arib today called the board of the institute, including chairman Ed Nijpels of the Supervisory Board, to the mat. The House of Representatives and the Ministry of the Interior are the donors of ProDemos, House for Democracy. After the consultation, Arib and Minister Ollongren decided to ask Tjibbe Joustra, the outgoing chairman of the Dutch Safety Board (OVV), to lead the investigation committee.

Yesterday the NOS reported on the matter. A manager was able to persuade young employees to have sex. The victims often had a temporary contract or a zero-hour contract and were afraid to refuse. MPs reacted shocked.

Declaration yet

Yesterday, director Habben Jansen of ProDemos said that in the interest of the victims he would have preferred to treat the case confidentially. After consultation with Arib and Ollongren, he has now decided to file a complaint against the manager who has since been fired.

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Once you have been granted Dutch nationality you will not automatically lose your Bengali nationality. It is not possible for you to renounce your original nationality.

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Bij verkrijging van de Nederlandse nationaliteit verliest u de Bengalese nationaliteit niet automatisch. Het is voor u niet mogelijk afstand te doen van uw oorspronkelijke nationaliteit.

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Vandeurzen: "Anyone with doubts about adoption file can have it investigated"

'Anyone with questions or doubts about his file or adoption procedure can go to the adoption service or to the Flemish Center for Adoption (VCA). They can provide insight into the file and together with the adopted persons or the adoptive parents view if and how there can be more clarity. If necessary, an on-site investigation can provide a definitive answer '. That is what Flemish Minister for Welfare Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V) says

Between 1997 and 2017, Ethiopia was by far the most popular adoptive country for Flanders. A total of 936 children came here. The question is whether that always happened correctly. Last weekend, a 17-year-old girl from Denderleeuw revealed how her file was lied to from beginning to end. The Flemish government does not exclude that there are still victims. "It is very difficult to give that guarantee," says Het Laatste Nieuws. Flemish Minister for Welfare Jo Vandeurzen "understands that the article raises many questions among adoptive parents and adopted children and that this causes concern." The CD&V minister also says that people can turn to the relevant adoption service or the Flemish Center for Adoption (VCA) if they have questions or doubts. "In recent years, we have been confronted with stories that show that adoptions have not been successful in all cases in the past," Vandeurzen acknowledges. The rules are stricter, but intercountry adoption is 'put in a negative light'. "Consequently, many adopted people ask themselves about their origin," it sounds.

According to Vandeurzen, the problem certainly does not only concern Flanders. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden, for example, have already decided to look at adoption practices from the past. 'Such an investigation is, for the time being, the only possibility of gaining more insight into where it went wrong in the past. We also take this concern to heart and look at how we can bring more clarity about adoption practices from the past, "concludes the CD&V minister.

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Mary was adopted from Faith Home in Porur in 1973, and raised by her adopted parents in Lerum, Sweden.

CHENNAI: Ever since she was a child, Christina was drawn to the name Mary. She was adopted from Faith Home in Porur in 1973, and raised by her adopted parents in Lerum, Sweden. Her fascination was such that Christina decided to incorporate the name into her first business.

When she returned to Chennai in 2018, a document from the Madras High Court revealed that her birth name was Mary. The 46-year-old legally changed her name to Mary Christina Rhedin. While the papers gave her some answers, they also raised many questions - about her parents, her extended family and her half-brother, who she didn’t know existed.

What am I?

Seated in Café Mori, INKO, Mary’s laugh fills the air as she recalls the moment when she met her adoptive mother.