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Klaus si Carmen Iohannis, traficanti de copii

Klaus si Carmen Iohannis, traficanti de copii

Vineri, 13 Noiembrie 2009 18:48 Investigatii
În data de 22 octombrie a. c. am a prezentat, în cadrul emisiunii „Na?ul" de pe postul B1 Tv, o serie de probe privind implicarea so?ilor Klaus Werner Iohannis ?i Carmen Georgeta Iohannis în trafic interna?ional de copii, la începutul anilor '90, dar am prezentat ?i alte infrac?iuni ale primarului sibian. Spa?iul de emisie fiind limitat la doar or?, nu am putut s? prezint nici m?car o zecime din probele cuprinse în teancul de dosare aflat în fa?a mea. Emisiunea , de?i difuzat? la o or? târzie ?i la concuren?? cu meciul interna?ional al unei echipe române?ti de fotbal, a avut cea mai mare audien?? na?ional?. Telespectatorii din întreaga ?ar? au fost surprin?i s? afle c? „imaculatul" Klaus Iohannis, „neam?ul corect de la Sibiu" propus ca premier al Guvernului României de c?tre liberalul Crin Antonescu, nu este, în nici un chip, „Alba ca Z?pada"! Nu a fost prima emisiune de aceste fel, eu „recidivând" dup? o alt? emisiune similar? la „Codul lui Oreste", în urm? cu doi ?i jum?tate, când emisiunea respectiv? era g?zduit? de postul „Antena 2". Spun asta pentru a se observa c? nu am ales un moment special pentru a ar?ta chipul adev?rat al impostorului Klaus Iohannis, care pozeaz? în „neam? cinstit ?i bun gospodar", dar nici nu înseamn? c? pot s? stau indiferent ?i s? privesc cum un ho? de case, cu mâinile p?tate de sânge, are ?anse s? fie împins în fruntea statului de for?e mafiote sau oculte.

Tot atunci, în emisiunea lui Radu Moraru, am ar?tat ?i motivul animozit??ii mele fa?? de primarul Sibiului, acesta evacuând singura bibliotec? particular? din România, acel a?ez?mânt cultural fiind patronat de mine. Eu investisem în amenajarea spa?iului respectiv toat? averea mea de la vremea respectiv?. Am fost ruinat de acest individ, pe nedrept, deoarece s-a ?i dovedit de instan?? c? spa?iul a fost furat de clanul Iohannis ?i cred c? aceea?i reac?ie pe care o am eu, ar fi avut-o oricare dintre dumneavoastr?, dac? ar fi r?mas s?r?cit în urma unor malversa?iuni declan?ate de un tic?los lacom ?i f?r? scrupule! Acestea se întâmplau în anul 2000, când Iohannis fusese ales primar pentru prima oar?. Biblioteca, numit? „Biblion", ocupa aproximativ 40 de metri p?tra?i dintr-un imobil furat de Klaus Iohannis, so?ia sa, soacra (L?zurca Georgeta) ?i un alt escroc (Ba?tea Ioan), stabilit ulterior în S.U.A., prin trafic de influen?? ?i uz de fals. Eu demonstrasem toate aceste infrac?iuni de atunci, din anul 2000, dar justi?iei române i-au trebuit patru ani ca s? se pronun?e privitor la falsurile prin care escrocii deposedaser? statul român de dou? imobile imense ?i ultracentrale. Astfel, decizia civil? nr. 310/R din 30 iunie 2005 a Cur?ii de Apel Bra?ov consfin?e?te, definitiv ?i irevocabil, decizia civil? nr. 240/A pronun?at? de Tribunalul Bra?ov în data de 22 aprilie 2004, prin care Certificatul de mo?tenitor ?i legatar nr. 90/ 01.06.1999, emis de notarul corupt Radu Gabriel Buc?a a fost anulat ca fiind eliberat pe baz? de documente false ?i cu înc?lcarea competen?ei teritoriale absolute. Prin acel Certificat calp ob?inuse Iohannis ?i ceilal?i escroci casele din Sibiu, str. G-ral. Magheru, nr. 35 ?i N. B?lcescu, nr. 29, imobil în care se afla ?i micu?a mea bibliotec?. De?i au trecut patru ani de la pronun?area acelei sentin?e definitive ?i irevocabile, nimeni nu are curajul s? o pun? în aplicare! Ce s? ne mai mir?m de lentoarea justi?ie române, din moment ce un alt dosar al mafiei imobiliare sibiene, conduse de acela?i Klaus Iohannis, mai precis dosarul cu nr. 296/P/2006 de la Parchetul General, Sec?ia D.I.I.I.C.O.T., provenit din nr. 42/P/2006 de la Parchetul de pe lâng? Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia s-a pr?fuit prin sertarele sec?iei conduse de „celebrul procuror" Doru ?ulu?, de la D.N.A. timp de trei ani (!!!) pentru ca apoi s? fie retrimis recent (1 octombrie 2009) la Parchetul de pe lâng? Curtea de Apel Alba Iulia prin declinarea competen?ei D.N.A. Inadmisibil! Procurorilor D.N.A., condu?i de „incoruptibilul" Daniel Morar, le trebuie trei ani de zile ca s?-?i dea seama dac? un dosar este sau nu de competen?a lor!!!

De acolo a pornit conflictul dintre mine ?i acest personaj veros ?i corupt, primar al Sibiului, care din l?comie ?i dorin?? de m?rire se vrea acum premier! De la acel spa?iu furat de la statul român, unde eu eram doar chiria? ?i desf??uram o activitate util?, generoas? ?i altruist? în folosul comunit??ii, dar pe banii mei. ?i, pentru c? tot m? atac? unii suporteri ai idolului umflat artificial, cu pompa, întrebând pe internet, la comentariile unor ziare sibiene, c? ce a f?cut Marinescu pentru Sibiu, fa?? de primar, care , uite!, a f?cut ceva, se vede, am s? m? explic. M?i, oameni buni, eu nu prea v?d nimic la capitolul realiz?ri, decât doar c? a distrus farmecul Sibiului, transformându-i pie?ele pline de verdea?? alt?dat? în ni?te de?erturi pietrificate, care seam?n? cu platourile lag?relor naziste de exterminare (Pia?a Mare ?i Pia?a G?rii), mai v?d cum se deterioreaz? tot ceea ce „a renovat" de mântuial?, dar pe bani mul?i! Oricum, indiferent de ce a f?cut sau nu a f?cut Iohannis, acolo au fost bani de la buget, nu din economiile personale ale primarului. Pe când eu am f?cut o bibliotec? public?, pe care am pus-o la dispozi?ia comunit??ii, pe banii mei personali! În plus, eu aduceam bani la buget, prin impozitele pe care le pl?team ca s? func?ionez cu o activitate cultural?, în timp ce Iohannis a furat bani de la buget, chiar folosindu-se de activit??ile derulate în anul 2007, când cu capitala cultural? a Europei. Cam astea sunt diferen?ele! V? las pe dumneavoastr? s? judeca?i, cine ce a f?cut. Pe cei care, înc?, mai judeca?i...cu propriile min?i!

Iohannis folose?te, în continuare, acel spa?iu în scop propriu ?i încaseaz? foarte mul?i bani de laRaiffeisen Bank (chirie), bani care nu se reg?sesc în declara?iile de avere de pe site-ul Prim?riei Sibiu ?i nici în cea de la Fisc. Evaziune fiscal? clar?! Ca s? se piard? urma declara?iilor de avere vechi, unde nu figura venitul din chiria de la Raiffeisen Bank (evaziunea fiscal? de care vorbeam), Iohannis a dat ordin s? fie ?terse vechile declara?ii de pe site-ul Prim?riei, r?mânând doar ultima declara?ie de venituri, cea din 2009. Acest aspect a fost sesizat ?i de revista „Academia Ca?avencu". Când vorbesc de spa?iul închiriat b?ncii austriece, nu înseamn? c? m? refer la spa?iul în care am avut eu biblioteca, ci de cel al?turat ?i cu o suprafa?? mult mai mare, unde func?ionase libr?ria „Mihai Eminescu". Eram perete în perete cu libr?ria, aceasta fiind evacuat? de c?tre Iohannis, sfid?tor, chiar de ziua poetului na?ional,  în 15 ianuarie 2001! Spa?iul în care am avut eu biblioteca a fost închiriat de Iohannis pentru un W.C., care deserve?te vara dou? terase-cârciumi de pe strad?, deci pot spune f?r? rezerve c? este un c?c?nar, din moment ce face bani pân? ?i din necesit??ile fiziologice ale oamenilor. Acesta-i adev?ratul Klaus Iohannis, primarul capitalei culturale europene din anul 2007, acesta-i „omul" care din l?comie a sacrificat o libr?rie ?i o bibliotec?, înlocuindu-le  cu o banc? ?i o bud?, doar ca s? câ?tige el bani, cât mai mul?i bani!

Tot l?comia l-a împins, imediat dup? revolu?ie în implicarea direct? în trafic interna?ional de fiin?e umane, infrac?iune deosebit de grav?, pedepsit? dur de legisla?iile tuturor statelor civilizate. Eu am aflat despre aceast? voca?ie a lui Iohannis, de geamba? de copii, în aprilie 2000, deci la zece ani dup? primele vânz?ri umane derulate de familia Iohannis. Mi-a fost pus la dispozi?ie un ziar, „Ziua de Ardeal", ap?rut cu trei ani înainte, în care ziaristul Dan Tapalag? scria, negru pe alb, despre implicarea cuplului de profesori Iohannis în adop?ii de copii din comuna R??inari, jude?ul Sibiu, pentru cet??eni canadieni ?i era emis? ipoteza c? ace?ti copii au devenit „piese de schimb" în b?nci de organe. Cei trei copii r?m?seser? orfani în urma uciderii mamei de c?tre so?ul ei, acesta sinucigându-se dup? actul necugetat comis la be?ie. Nu am crezut tot ceea ce am citit, a?a cum nu cred nici ast?zi tot ceea ce citesc sau v?d la televizor, nefiind o persoan? u?or de convins sau manipulat, a?a c? am întreprins propriile mele cercet?ri legat de acest caz. Astfel, am luat leg?tura cu bunicii fra?ilor Iliu?, cei trei orfani pomeni?i în articolul lui Tapalag?, iar pe Maria Iliu? am prezentat-o presei sibiene într-o conferin?? de pres? organizat? la biblioteca pentru care m? luptam, pe vremea aceea, cu str??nicie. Men?ionez c? înc? nu fondasem revista „Justi?iarul". Doar dup? câteva luni, mai precis în septembrie 2000 a ap?rut primul num?r al revistei, creat? de mine în scopul de a ap?ra acea bibliotec?. Ulterior, dup? ce am fost evacuat printr-o sentin?? nedreapt? ?i abuziv? a Cur?ii de Apel Alba Iulia, „Justi?iarul" s-a transformat dintr-o „arm?" defensiv? în una ofensiv?, luptând f??i? nu doar împotriva lui Iohannis, ci împotriva întregului sistem corupt din ?ara noastr?, datorit? c?ruia tr?im noi, majoritatea românilor, în s?r?cie. Am pus aceast? publica?ie la dispozi?ia cet??enilor oropsi?i, a celor deveni?i ?i ei victime, aidoma mie, ale unei justi?ii corupte, aflate nu în slujba cet??enilor, ci a infractorilor! De aceea am ?i ales acest nume sugestiv: JUSTI?IARUL.

Am adunat , cu tenacitate, toate m?rturiile legate de adop?ia celor trei fra?i Iliu?, Elena-Maria (7 ani), Vasile (5 ani) ?i Anca (3 ani). Ace?tia au fost adopta?i împreun? cu feti?a Anda Maria Scutelnicu, în vârst? de doar patru luni, copilul „din flori" al unei tinere din T?lmaciu,f?r? posibilit??i materiale ?i repudiat? de propria familie. Am predat aceste probe (materiale audio ?i video) sublocotenentului Cristina Ghi?oiu de la Serviciul Combatere a Crimei Organizate (S.C.C.O. )- I.P.J. Sibiu în data de 13 iunie 2000 (facsimil 1).  Parchetul de pe lâng? Tribunalul Sibiu a dispus neînceperea urm?ririi penale fa?? Iohannis Klaus ?i Iohannis Carmen în dosar nr. 423/P/2000, având ca obiect înfierile ilegale. Direc?ia de Combatere a Crimei Organizate (D.C.C.O.) din cadrul Inspectoratului General de Poli?ie (I.G.P.) a efectuat cercet?ri cu privire la traficul de copii, respectiv adop?ii ilegale, în care au fost implica?i cei doi Iohannis în dosarul 346007/2000. M? întreb dac? mai exist? acest dosar în arhiva I.G.P.? Personal, m? îndoiesc. În anul 2000, subsemnatul am sesizat Camera Deputa?ilor, la Comisia pentru Cercetarea Abuzurilor, Corup?iei ?i pentru Peti?ii atât despre traficul de copii, cât ?i despre ob?inerea frauduloas? de c?tre aceea?i familie Iohannis a celor dou? imobile pe care le-am pomenit anterior. În naivitate mea, eu chiar credeam c? o comisie a ale?ilor poporului, cu o titulatur? a?a stufoas? ?i r?zboinic? chiar se va implica ?i va face dreptate. Iluzii de?arte!

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Am persistat în naivitate ?i am revenit la aceea?i comisie, aducând-o la Bucure?ti pentru audiere ?i pe doamna Iliu? Maria, pe cheltuiala mea (transport, mas?) în data de 3 martie 2004 (facsimil 2). A fost invitat la audieri ?i Iohannis, în dou? rânduri, dar acesta a sfidat Parlamentul, refuzând s? vin?. Regulamentul Camerei Deputa?ilor nu prevede sanc?iuni pentru persoanele care refuz? s? vin?. Un regulament f?cut de ?mecheri pentru al?i ?mecheri!

Bunica Maria Iliu? s-a adresat ?i lui Ion Iliescu, în ultimul s?u mandat de pre?edinte, dar a primit un r?spuns „în doi peri" (facsimil 3), iar promisiunile din scrisorica alc?tuit? din dou? propozi?ii ?i o fraz?, primit? de la Pre?edin?ie, a r?mas f?r? nici un fel de rezultate. S-a adresat, biata b?trân? îndurerat? ?i procurorului general al României (facsimil 4), dar tot degeaba! Singura ei speran?? a r?mas pre?edintele Traian B?sescu, c?ruia i-a trimis o scrisoare,  imediat dup? emisiunea de pe postul B1 Tv, care a agitat spiritele în comuna R??inari ?i a determinat-o s? reînceap? lupta pentru aflarea adev?rului, fiind cea mai interesat? de soarta acelor copii, sânge din sângele ei. Public?m ?i noi al?turat scrisoarea pe care am adaptat-o gramatical. Femeia, chiar dac? nu are mult? ?coal? ?i nu este cult?, posed? o inteligen?? nativ?, dând dovad? de logic? ?i intui?ie, calit??i care au ajutat-o ?i în cercet?rile pe care le-a desf??urat de una singur?, pân? s? iau eu leg?tura cu ea. Astfel a reu?it s? g?seasc? liceul „Gheorghe Laz?r" unde lucra Carmen Iohannis, de?i aceasta nu-i spusese unde pred? limba englez?. Tot a?a a aflat c? cei doi „geamba?i" ?tiau de tragedia din familie ?i de nepo?ii ei, r?ma?i orfani, de la Mitrea, un unchi de-al copiilor dinspre mam?, care era ?i el vârât în banda trafican?ilor de copii, g?zduind copii abandona?i într-o camer? închiriat? special cu acest scop.

Acum, în timp ce scriu acest articol, urm?resc ?i conferin?a de pres? a lui Iohannis din anul 2000, axat? exact pe problema adop?iilor în care a fost implicat. M? uit pe ecran ?i nu pot s? nu remarc atitudinea de fiar? speriat?, încol?it?. Asta se cite?te pe chipul lui Iohannis: panic?! Nu trebuie s? ai studii aprofundate în psihologie pentru a realiza c? individul minte ?i inventeaz? r?spunsuri pe loc. Iat? ce spune individul aici, pe lâng? multe minciuni, când mai scap? ?i câte un adev?r, din prostie, c? altcumva nu am cum s? clasific aceste fragmente de „autodenun?". El recunoa?te, întrebat fiind ?i dup? o scurt? ezitare, c? pe lâng? aceast? înfiere a mai intermediat una în anul urm?tor (1991), dar afirm? c? vor veni canadienii cu acel copil ?i-l va prezenta presei sibiene. Aiurea, a min?it, a?a cum minte el permanent, la fel cum respir?! Nu a venit nimeni s? fie prezentat presei, de?i au trecut nou? ani de la acea promisiune a „geamba?ului de copii". ?i de unde ?tia acel canadian, din anul 1991, c? familia Iohannis se ocup? de astfel de mâr??vii? Aveau anun?uri în presa canadian?, c? internet nu era pe vremea aceea? Tot el recunoa?te, în finalul conferin?ei de pres?, c? a primit cadouri, nu bani, de la canadieni pentru acele adop?ii. Ori, legile din anul 1990, când adop?iile din România deveniser? o adev?rat? „industrie" - pre?ul pentru un copil era cam 20.000 de dolari americani! - pedepseau ob?inerea de bunuri materiale pentru astfel de intermedieri, indiferent c? era vorba de bani sau alte foloase. La fel, Iohannis recunoa?te c? familia Lalande (Alain Roger ?i Arlene Dianne), cei care i-au adoptat pe fra?ii Iliu? „la snop", împreun? cu feti?a Anda Maria Scutelnicu, au fost caza?i la domiciliul so?ilor Iohannis. În conferin?a de pres? este nominalizat ?i un anume Gugonea, profesor în Bucure?ti ?i fost colg de facultate al lui carmen Iohannis, care, cic?, i-ar fi trimis pe acei canadieni, familia Lalande, la Sibiu. Iohannis sus?ine c? acel Gugonea era un prieten foarte bun ?i de aceea a avut încredere s?-i cazeze pe canadieni la el acas?. A?a de bun era prietenul, încât Iohannis nici nu-i mai ?tia prenumele: „parc? Sorin"! L-a c?utat vreun organ de anchet? pe acel Gugonea, l-a întrebat cineva de „s?n?tate"? M?car a lui, c? de copii cred c? nu mai ?tie nimic nici acel complice din Bucure?ti. Legea 11/1990, intrat? în vigoare cu dou? s?pt?mâni înainte ca Tribunalul Sibiu s? legalizeze adop?ia, prevedea în mod expres, la Art. 3, c?: „Str?inii sau cet??enii români cu domiciliul sau re?edin?a în str?in?tate pot adopta numai copii afla?i în eviden?a Comitetului Român pentru Adop?ii ?i care nu au putut fi încredin?a?i sau adopta?i în ?ara, în intervalul de cel pu?in ?ase luni de la luarea în eviden?a". Ori, copiii respectivi nu au fost nicicând lua?i în eviden?a acelui Comitet de Adop?ii, iar de ?ase luni nici nu poate fi vorba, deoarece în urm? cu patru luni p?rin?ii lor mai tr?iau, iar micu?a Scutelnicu nici nu era n?scut?! Deci adop?ia a fost total ilegal?, iar judec?torii au ignorat Legea 11/90, de?i o citeaz? cu tupeu în sentin?a lor. În aceea?i conferin?? de pres?, Iohannis invoc? faptul c? adop?ia a fost cu drepturi depline ?i familia apar?in?toare nu mai are dreptul s? ia leg?tura cu copiii adopta?i. Total fals! Îl contrazice Dreptul Interna?ional al Copiilor, care spune, la Art. 1, c? fiecare copil are dreptul legitim s?-?i cunoasc? p?rin?ii ?i familia din care provine. Chiar s?pt?mânile trecute am asistat, pe un post de televiziune, la momentul emo?ionant al întâlnirii unui grup de copii adopta?i, tot în 1990 de familii de americani, cu p?rin?ii lor naturali din România. A fost un moment de-a dreptul mi?c?tor ?i pentru mine, ca simplu telespectator. De?inem caseta cu aceast? conferin?? de pres? a lui Iohannis din anul 2000, care este un cap clar de acuzare împotriva familiei Iohannis. De asemenea, de?inem dou? m?rturii, de la persoane diferite, care nu se cunosc între ele,privind copii ?inu?i în co?uri de nuiele la familia L?zurca, socrii lui Klaus Iohannis ?i un anume Radu Gheorghe, fratele Georgetei L?zurca, fost activist comunist,unchiul lui Carmen. Problema devine ?i mai grav?, deoarece nu este vorba doar de adop?ia fra?ilor Iliu? ?i a Andei Scutelnicu. Chiar bunica, Maria Iliu?, afirm? c? erau dou? familii de canadieni, împreun? cu Carmen Iohannis, la Tribunalul Sibiu ?i, în timp ce familia Lalande a adoptat cei patru copii, cealalt? familie a adoptat cinci! „Vr?jitoarea Carmen", cum o nume?te b?trâna cople?it? de am?r?ciune, o min?ise pe aceasta c? ?i ea are o feti?? pe care o d?, la fel, în Canada pentru un trai mai bun, doar ca s? o determine s? renun?e la nepo?i. Familia Iohannis nu are copii. Dac? ei au intermediat adop?iile acelea spre binele copiilor, atunci de ce nu au adopta ?i ei m?car unul, nu cinci! Sunt mai multe persoane care ?tiu c? num?rul copiilor adopta?i de canadieni, dar ?i de cet??eni americani, prin intermediul samsarilor Iohannis, pe tot teritoriul jude?ului Sibiu este mult mai mare. Astfel, o profesoar?, coleg?  cu Carmen Iohannis a afirmat c? ei c?utau ?i copii cu malforma?ii, în special hidrocefali, deci „legume". De ce oare? Nu cumva pentru ritualuri satanice, care se fac cu jertfe umane? Acela?i lucru a fost înt?rit ?i de un sas din jude?ul Sibiu, care, la fel, a vorbit de copii cu malforma?ii din familii de ?igani, pe care Klaus Iohannis îi transporta cu o saco?? de voiaj ?i pentru care oferea p?rin?ilor un televizor color. De?inem informa?ii potrivit c?rora au fost adopta?i, pe aceea?i filier? Iohannis, mul?i copii de la Casa de Copii din Cisn?die, amplasat? pe strada Livezii, cu complicitate directoarei de atunci. Oamenilor îns? le este fric? s? vorbeasc?, fiindc? se tem ?i de Iohannis, ajuns mare între timp, dar ?i de mafia interna?ional? a trafican?ilor de carne vie. Este interesant? ?i rela?ia de mare prietenie dintre Carmen Iohannis ?i Elena Miruna Tudorache, fondatoare funda?iei „Un copil, o speran??" (U.C.O.S.) din Sibiu, precum ?i facilit??ile create de so?ul lui Carmen, în calitate de primar, acestei funda?ii, cum ar fi Hot?rârea nr. 292 din 27.09.2007 pentru prelungirea cu titlu gratuit a imobilului din Sibiu, Aleea Streiu, nr. 8, unde func?ioneaz? funda?ia. Pentru ca s? în?eleag? ?i cei care nu sunt din Sibiu, cât? „democra?ie" exist? în ora?ul acesta, unde Consiliul Local este în majoritate al F.D.G.R., de dou? mandate: toate hot?rârile sunt ini?iate de Iohannis, iar ma?ina de vot, format? din consilierii sa?i se pune în mi?care. Nu exist? niciodat? opozi?ie ?i nici m?car discu?ii pe margine vreunui proiect. Trecutul acestei doamne Tudorache s-ar putea s? devin? foarte interesant pentru o anchet? serioas?, în cazul în care copiii exporta?i de so?ii Iohannis vor fi de neg?sit. Crede?i c? primarul a propus acea scutire de chirie din dragoste pentru copii? Aiurea, se vede din raporturile avute cu copiii Iliu? cât le erau de „dragi". Apropos, de?i au venit de multe ori la R??inari cu canadienii, dar ?i f?r? ei, niciodat? so?ii Iohannis nu le-au adus acelor copii nec?ji?i m?car o ciocolat?! La fel ?i so?ii Lalande.

Cu banii ob?inu?i din trafic interna?ional de copii, so?ii Iohannis ?i-au cump?rat, în anul 1992, o cas? pe strada Bâlea din Sibiu, la num?rul 29. Au pl?tit fostului proprietar, un sas adev?rat, care a plecat definitiv în Germania, suma de 75.000 m?rci germane. Ei nu au cum s? justifice ace?ti bani, fiindc? nu aveau alte venituri decât salariile de profesori. Este exclus? ?i varianta cu sprijin financiar de la p?rin?ii lui Iohannis din Germania, deoarece taic?-s?u era un pârlit de tinichigiu auto. Acum, dup? ce fiul lor a devenit primar la Sibiu, ?i p?rin?ii lui Iohannis locuiesc într-o vil? somptuoas? din ora?ulWürzburg. Se pune aceea?i întrebare, cu ce bani a fost achizi?ionat?? Oare nu tot din afacerile necurate ale lui Klaus Iohannis derulate pe picior mare în anul 2007, când cu „Sibiu- capital? cultural? european?"? Reamintim c? toate fondurile au fost derulate atunci printr-un O.N.G., numit Asocia?ia Capitala Cultural? a Europei-Sibiu 2007, a c?rei pre?edinte era Iohannis. To?i cei care au f?cut parte din asocia?ia respectiv? s-au îmbog??it peste noapte a?a cum am ar?tat în articolul „Îmbog??i?i capitalei culturale europene - Sibiu 2007", publicat în „Justi?iarul sibian" din data de 15 septembrie 2008. B?trâna Iliu?, c?reia i-a murit ?i so?ul de câtva timp, ?i-a pus mari speran?e în pre?edintele B?sescu, pe care-l vede ca pe un om drept ?i hot?rât s? stârpeasc? corup?ia ?i nedrept??ile din România. Noi sper?m s? nu o dezam?geasc?, a?a cum a  f?cut-o Iliescu, care are ?i el mâinile p?tate de sângele tinerilor mor?i la revolu?ie. Cât despre so?ii Iohannis, tare m? tem c? îi vor ajunge blestemele bunicii îndurerate din R??inari. Pe complicele lor, Mitrea, l-au ajuns ?i a murit în chinuri groaznice, dup? ce, mai întâi, i s-a pr?p?dit fiul.

 

Marius Albin MARINESCU

Domnule Pre?edinte,

 

Subsemnata Iliu? Maria din comuna R??inari, jud. Sibiu nr. 1139, prin prezenta m? adresez dumneavoastr?, ca unic? solu?ie care mi-a mai r?mas, pentru a dispune s? se elucideze situa?ia celor trei copii ai mei care au fost înfia?i ?i trimi?i în Canada prin intermediul actualului primar al Sibiului, domnul Klaus Iohannis, în anul 1990, dat? din care nu mai ?tiu nimic despre ei. Domnul Klaus ne-a promis c?-i duce la un trai mai bun, s? înve?e o meserie ?i limbi str?ine. A zis c? m? vor vizita , la domiciliul meu din R??inari, de dou? ori pe an. Dânsul se cuno?tea cu înfietorii canadieni. În ziua aceea au dus nou? copii pentru plecare. Domnul Iohannis nu ?i-a respectat angajamentul. Încerc?rile mele de a-l g?si au r?mas f?r? rezultat timp de doi ani, când am aflat c? domnia sa este profesor la liceul Gheorghe Laz?r din Sibiu. L-am a?teptat în cancelarie. ?tia ?i femeia de serviciu c? se ocup? cu trafic de copii pentru organe. La întâlnire eu m-am bucurat, dar dânsul era nervos ?i mi-a pus mâna în piept, m-a înjurat ?i a dat cu piciorul în mine. Era cu so?ia lui, Carmen. Am c?zut de geam ?i am reu?it cu greu s? scap de lovituri. A spus c? dac?-l mai caut, o s? p??esc ?i mai r?u. Doresc s? spun? unde sunt copiii ?i dac? mai tr?iesc. Nu doresc la nimeni s? treac? prin ce am trecut eu: s?-?i vezi mor?i doi copii ?i nepo?ii pleca?i. Nu am ?tiut c? voi fi în?elat?, c? m? a?teptau toat? ziua ?i era pe capul meu cu so?ia lui, care m-a min?it c? are ?i ea o feti?? ?i pleac? odat? cu ai mei. Eu fiind sup?rat? dup? cele întâmplate cu p?rin?ii lor, nu am realizat ce se întâmpl?. Era de fa?? ?i mama fetei, nora mea, care zicea ?i ea s?-i dau pentru ajutor, c? le vor da o meserie ?i trai mai bun. Eu nu i-am dat nici pe bani sau pe alte obiecte. Am fost de dou? ori ?i la Bucure?ti, în audien?e, unde am aflat c? s-au trecut la grani?? cu drept de la domnul Ion Iliescu. Am stat de vorb? cu acesta la „Fii satului", în curte la Octavian Goga, când a spus c?-mi d? r?spuns Petre Roman, Adrian N?stase. Exist? Dumnezeu pentru to?i, dar pentru ei nu! Atâta bucurie s? aib? cei care ne-au luat copiii ?i nu-mi dau nici un r?spuns. Atât mai vreau înaintea mor?ii, s? ?tiu dac? nepo?ii mai tr?iesc pentru c? sunt foarte bolnav?. Pentru în?el?ciunea lui Klaus, care a dus sute de copii. Avea o camer? unde-i ?inea, la prietenul lui Mitrea Ioan, care a decedat în chinuri grele, c? a ?tiut ?i nu a spus. Câ?i copii a?i dat pentru organe domnule Klaus? Patru au plecat cu ai mei. Am fost la ambasad? ?i ne-au spus ?i ora la care i-a?i trecut. ?i mai vre?i ?i (n.r.: prim-) ministru! Nu ?i-ai f?cut plinul? V? rog nu mai pune?i un profesor s? ne mai tr?deze ?ara! Dac? nu i-a fost mil? de ni?te copila?i, i-au dat la t?iat, ca pe miei prim?vara. V? rog din toat? inima de p?rinte în?elat de Klaus ?i so?ia sa, Carmen, care-i transporta (n.r.: pe copii) în valiz? de 2 ori pe an. S? nu m? l?sa?i f?r? r?spuns. Unde sunt copiii nevinova?i, care au c?zut pe mâna hingherului Klaus Iohannis?

Iliu? Maria, R??inari

 

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Maryyy   |83.42.206.Xxx |Y-m-d H:i:s
Sunt din sibiu,si sincer vorbind am fost placut im presionata de faptul ca imagi
nea orasui nostru a a vut parte de o reala schimbare datorita noului pri mar.
M
i s-a parut suspecta ultima declaratie a pr imarului referitoare la retragera lu
i odata cu ese cul lui Geoana.
Oricum ceea ce ati prezentat aici e scandalos,n
u imi vine sa cred,dar avand in vede re ca este vorba despre bani stim cu toti c
a dorin ta de inbogatire pur si simplu ne transforma in di avoli.
Dar,ceea ce m
a mira e neatentia de care a dat dovada,constient fiind de ce a facut,era foart
e simplu de anticipat ceea ce avea sa urmeze si a urmat...acest scandal referi
tor la trecutul lui.
Chear zilele trecute ma intrebam cine e acest om,c e trec
ut are?
E un subiect care nu poate fi ferit de presa,in acest caz cum se expli
ca inprudenta l ui,de a se afisa in public stiind ca trecutul lui nu este unul 
tocmai curat.
Il admiram dar acum nu mai stiu ce ...
Citeaza
tia   |85.48.37.Xxx |Y-m-d H:i:s
Pt maryyy:
Cum poti spune ca admiri un diavol? Da ca a schimbat Sibiul la fata,
si nu din propriul b uzunar, inseamna ca merita admiratia noastra? Tu e sti sig
ura ca ai citit bine randurile de mai sus?

Natie de redusi, asta is romanii. C
u mici excepti i. De asta prefer sa stau printre straini.
 

Gay couple adoption still prohibited: Constitutional Court

Gay couple adoption still prohibited: Constitutional Court
Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:09 Kirsten Begg

The Colombian Constitutional Court clarified that same sex couple adoption is still prohibited, following the ruling of an Antioquian court that granted joint maternal custody to a lesbian couple.
The Court Wednesday announced Wednesday evening that the ruling by the Antioquian court was unconstitutional. The lesbian couple case had sought to overturn a law prohibiting same sex couple adoption.
The two women, who have been together since 2005 and formalized their union before a notary in 2008, decided to have a baby via artificial insemination, reported news station W Radio on Friday.
Their initial petition for joint maternal custody to welfare agency Bienestar Familiar was denied on the grounds that a same-sex partnership does not consititute a family.
The two women subsequently took out court order to challenge this denial.
The Antioquia court ruled that the couple, both the biological mother and her partner, had the right to joint legal custody of the child and ordered Bienestar Familiar to process the adoption within 48 hours.
Bienestar Familiar failed to process the court ordered adoption, the Inspector General told Caracol Radio Tuesday.

Day.Az interview with Deputy Director of Republican Children’s Organizations Roza Farzalibayova.


12 November 2009 [17:43] - Today.Az

Day.Az interview with Deputy Director of Republican Children’s Organizations Roza Farzalibayova.

 Day.Az: Azerbaijan implements state program on the transfer of children from child care facilities to families as part of which boarding schools and orphanages will be abolished in the coming years. To what extent is it possible?

Roza Farzalibayova: Some countries have already used the similar experience. For example,  Latvia implements a program of deinstitutionalization and alternative care which brings fruitful results. They try first to return the children to biological families. If it is impossible or parents are deprived of parental rights, a child is transferred to an alternative family. These families are carefully selected. A special agencies oversee implementation of the program.

Azerbaijan has almost identical model of the program. I am confident that we will be proud of its results soon.
 
Q: How the issue of graduates of boarding schools are addressed? Are they provided assistance in obtaining housing and employment?

A: The issue of housing of orphan children is regulated by the Law on Social Protection of Orphans adopted in 1999. The law provides a right of children to parents' property. However, the apartment can be owned by a child only after he/she reaches maturity. Until a child turns 18, the apartment is transferred to executive authority ot the district where the child is registered.

With regard to the employment of young people, there are special schools in certain areas of Baku and the regions that train graduates of children's homes and also provide a dormitory. A network of such institutions must be established throughout the country to help solve the employment problems of boarding school graduates.

Q: What are your views about adoption of Azerbaijani children by foreigners?

A: I am against adoption of Azerbaijani children by foreign families. Only Azerbaijani families should be granted a right to adoption.

Q: Why some Azerbaijani families are skeptical about adoption of orphan children?

A: Adoption is a delicate issue. The majority of Azerbaijanis have positive attitude to child adoption, but few are prepared adopt a child from orphanage.

Q: Your organization operates a service to which children who are victims of physical violence in the family may apply to. How much this issue is relevant today?

A: Unfortunately, there are parents who to make their children obedient  by a physical punishment. Parents who beat their children believe that they educate their children this way. In fact, by resorting to force in upbringing, they merely prove their inability to find a reasonable way of influence on a child. But today few children may complain of physical abuse of parents. A few years ago we received more complaints about this than now.

We have also implemented a project on the Rights of a Child together with UNICEF. We plan to begin another such project in the coming year.

Day.Az


Child Trafficking: HANCI Boss Confesses

Child Trafficking: HANCI Boss Confesses
Author: Donstance Koroma - SEM
Dr. Roland Kargbo, executive director of the controversial Help A Needy Child International (HANCI) organization has, after being grilled by human right activist Emmanuel Hindowa Saidu of Foundation for Democratic Initiative and Development confessed he engaged in child trafficking and blamed former Attorney General Tom Carew whom he said did not ensure that the biological parents were informed prior to the children being taken abroad.
In a more radical approach to human right issues in Sierra Leone, Mr. Saidu yesterday met with Dr. Roland Kargbo to further investigate claims that children from Makeni have been sold to childless couples abroad by his organization.
Following the meeting which took place yesterday, Sierra Express Media was informed about the outcome. According to information gathered, Dr Roland Kargbo agreed that he had indeed engaged in sending kids abroad for adoption to childless couples wanting children. The HANCI boss had also informed the human right activist that the issue of adoption started back in 1996 during the height of the war when one of his British partners had helped him establish an orphanage in Makeni, but had advised him to look for another partner to take up the running cost.
Kargbo said that after numerous searches he was able to contact an adoption agency in the United States known as the Maine Adoption Placement Services, MAPS, which he said expressed an interest in seeking families in the US ready to adopt the kids through an “inter country adoption and orphanage programme.”
Dr. Kargbo confessed that he had indeed sent 23 children to the United States for adoption but failed to mention if the parents were informed about the nature of this type of adoption. He however said as a form of apology that all the people who adopted the children are whites and therefore when the kids grow up they will realize that their foster parents are whites and will therefore ask to know their biological parents. “In the long run these children will notice the difference in complexion and will ask questions about there origin,” he said.
He stated that before the children were taken off to the United States, a hastily convened supervision court order was provided by the Magistrate Court in Makeni after the adoption agreement was read in the presence of the parents whom he said were asked whether or not they were willing to give their children to foster parents.
It is upon this consent that the then Attorney General Tom Crew signed a release letter handing over the children to HANCI with full authority to take them anywhere they please, Dr. Kargbo said.
However, having realizing that the idea of just reading an agreement in English to a mostly illiterate assembly of parents shows there was some dubious deal involved, Dr Roland said. He further regretted why the then Attorney General did not call on the biological parent of these children in informing them that all enquires about their children should be done at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs as stated in the agreement.
Responding to Mr. Hindowa Saidu’s question as to how far HANCI has done in clearing his organization’s credibility, he stated that he has written to the Ministry of Social Welfare two weeks ago for their intervention but to no avail as there has not been any answer from them or even an acknowledgment in receipt of the letter.
The HANCI boss further noted that year in year out the foster parents of the children send parcels to the Social Welfare Ministry, with a recent photo of children attached, but that neither the parcels nor the pictures ever meet the biological parents.
Meanwhile, Mr. Saidu in an exclusive interview revealed that investigations so far conducted expose HANCI as having corruptly manipulated the biological parents who are all illiterates in understanding that it is not an adoption program but rather a child care unit and that all the kids will be residing in Makeni in the home established by HANCI.
One of the aggrieved parents has meanwhile stated that Dr. Kargbo should be in jail as that is the only way he will speak the truth. “We were fooled into handing our children to him and he is now telling us that because it is white men and women to whom our children were sold, they will grow up and ask for us, but in case these white people lie to the children that all their parents died in the war, what will HANCI do?” he queried angrily.
The parents have meanwhile vowed to continue the matter and they will seek the services of an international lawyer to make a fresh case in the law courts. “Dr. Kargbo is a child seller who is not fit to be in civilized society but should instead be among criminals in the Pademba Road where he rightly belongs,” one parent informed Sierra Express Media.
Dr. Kargbo is yet to be seen as he is reported to be hiding from the aggrieved parents.
 

Girl reunited with father after 16 years in central China

Girl reunited with father after 16 years in central China

2009-11-12 17:17 BJT

BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A 21-year-old Swiss-Chinese girl was reunited with her birth father Wednesday after 16 years in Central China's Hubei province, according to Thursday's China Daily.

"My house is like that, my door is like that, my kitchen is like that," said Wang Gaoqin, who burst into tears upon seeing her old home in Tianmen, Hubei province.

Sixteen years ago, the 5-year-old girl, whose nickname was Qinya at that time, lost her family in the streets of Wuhan.

She was then sent to Wuhan City Children Welfare Center. The next year, she was adopted by a foreign couple. Her foster mother is from Singapore and foster father from Italy. The couple then immigrated to Switzerland.

During the 15 years, Wang received a good education.

Wang now speaks fluent English, French and Italian, but is not well-versed in Chinese.

Though her life in Switzerland was colorful, she missed her hometown all the time, and she became more and more rebellious. In September, her foster parents sent a letter to Zhang Zhiwei, counsel for "Baby, Come Home", a volunteer organization dedicated to seeking homes for lost children, expressing the wish for their adopted daughter to reunite with her lost family in Hubei.

Some Wuhan media in September and October released a series of reports about the couple trying to track the relatives of their adopted daughter.

The reports gave Wang faint memories about her hometown. In mid-October, a man named Wang Yong came forward to say that his hometown completely met the description in the report, and he even thought the girl could be his cousin if there is a scar on her chest.

The information was passed to the foster parents. This time, Wang was not disappointed, for the information was strikingly similar with the fragments of her memories. She realized that she would see her relatives soon.

Wang arrived in Wuhan on Tuesday and left for the hometown, Wangjiatai, Tianmen city Wednesday where she met her father Wang Yong'an.

Though the environment is more or less the same as it was 16 years ago, there are major differences: her mother has passed away and her father now lacks stable work.

But Wednesday, Wang was brimming with mixed feelings, and said she does not know yet what will happen in the future.

Editor: Du Xiaodan | Source: Xinhua

DCSF meeting with the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) on 15 October 2009

12 November 2009 – DCSF meeting with the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) on 15 October 2009

Following a positive meeting with the CCAA in April 2009, the Department met the CCAA again on 15 October to continue to discuss a number of areas of work and outstanding issues.

Key issues:

  • The CCAA confirmed that the number of domestic adoptions in China is increasing. This is thanks to the country’s rapid economic growth and Government intervention with plans for the treatment and rehabilitation of children with special needs.

  • The CCAA confirmed that at present there are 30,000 families awaiting a match in China and, because of the decrease in the availability of healthy children, some of these families are transferring to the special needs system waiting list. It is unlikely that the waiting time for the main list will reduce.

  • The change to procedures on the timing of the issue of the 17(c) agreement came into force on 23 October. If your application is affected by this change, the casework team will explain this to you and your agency. It means that the 17(c) agreement can be issued before you travel to China to meet the child, but you should still continue to liaise with your agency when you have met the child, and confirm whether you wish to proceed with the adoption.

  • The CCAA confirmed that they recognise that occasionally a match is not satisfactory. If the prospective adopters decide not to go ahead with the adoption once they have met the child, they should notify their adoption agency immediately to notify the CCAA. The CCAA confirmed that in these circumstances they would usually put forward an alternative suitable match.

  • The CCAA has requested that post-placement reports are written and submitted by the social worker and not by the families, and that the reports have to comply with the standards set by the CCAA. For more details, please visit the CCAA website. DCSF is following up outstanding reports with agencies.

Children with special needs – new online system

Child Trafficking: HANCI Boss Confesses

Page added on November 12, 2009

Child Trafficking: HANCI Boss Confesses

Author: Donstance Koroma - SEM

 

 

Dr. Roland Kargbo, executive director of the controversial Help A Needy Child International (HANCI) organization has, after being grilled by human right activist Emmanuel Hindowa Saidu of Foundation for Democratic Initiative and Development confessed he engaged in child trafficking and blamed former Attorney General Tom Carew whom he said did not ensure that the biological parents were informed prior to the children being taken abroad.

In a more radical approach to human right issues in Sierra Leone, Mr. Saidu yesterday met with Dr. Roland Kargbo to further investigate claims that children from Makeni have been sold to childless couples abroad by his organization.

Following the meeting which took place yesterday, Sierra Express Media was informed about the outcome. According to information gathered, Dr Roland Kargbo agreed that he had indeed engaged in sending kids abroad for adoption to childless couples wanting children. The HANCI boss had also informed the human right activist that the issue of adoption started back in 1996 during the height of the war when one of his British partners had helped him establish an orphanage in Makeni, but had advised him to look for another partner to take up the running cost.

Kargbo said that after numerous searches he was able to contact an adoption agency in the United States known as the Maine Adoption Placement Services, MAPS, which he said expressed an interest in seeking families in the US ready to adopt the kids through an “inter country adoption and orphanage programme.”

Dr. Kargbo confessed that he had indeed sent 23 children to the United States for adoption but failed to mention if the parents were informed about the nature of this type of adoption. He however said as a form of apology that all the people who adopted the children are whites and therefore when the kids grow up they will realize that their foster parents are whites and will therefore ask to know their biological parents. “In the long run these children will notice the difference in complexion and will ask questions about there origin,” he said.

He stated that before the children were taken off to the United States, a hastily convened supervision court order was provided by the Magistrate Court in Makeni after the adoption agreement was read in the presence of the parents whom he said were asked whether or not they were willing to give their children to foster parents.

It is upon this consent that the then Attorney General Tom Crew signed a release letter handing over the children to HANCI with full authority to take them anywhere they please, Dr. Kargbo said.

However, having realizing that the idea of just reading an agreement in English to a mostly illiterate assembly of parents shows there was some dubious deal involved, Dr Roland said. He further regretted why the then Attorney General did not call on the biological parent of these children in informing them that all enquires about their children should be done at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs as stated in the agreement.

Responding to Mr. Hindowa Saidu’s question as to how far HANCI has done in clearing his organization’s credibility, he stated that he has written to the Ministry of Social Welfare two weeks ago for their intervention but to no avail as there has not been any answer from them or even an acknowledgment in receipt of the letter.

The HANCI boss further noted that year in year out the foster parents of the children send parcels to the Social Welfare Ministry, with a recent photo of children attached, but that neither the parcels nor the pictures ever meet the biological parents.

Meanwhile, Mr. Saidu in an exclusive interview revealed that investigations so far conducted expose HANCI as having corruptly manipulated the biological parents who are all illiterates in understanding that it is not an adoption program but rather a child care unit and that all the kids will be residing in Makeni in the home established by HANCI.

One of the aggrieved parents has meanwhile stated that Dr. Kargbo should be in jail as that is the only way he will speak the truth. “We were fooled into handing our children to him and he is now telling us that because it is white men and women to whom our children were sold, they will grow up and ask for us, but in case these white people lie to the children that all their parents died in the war, what will HANCI do?” he queried angrily.

The parents have meanwhile vowed to continue the matter and they will seek the services of an international lawyer to make a fresh case in the law courts. “Dr. Kargbo is a child seller who is not fit to be in civilized society but should instead be among criminals in the Pademba Road where he rightly belongs,” one parent informed Sierra Express Media.

Dr. Kargbo is yet to be seen as he is reported to be hiding from the aggrieved parents.

http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/2669

 

Dutch child abuser found India suitable,' wanted citizenship

Dutch child abuser found India suitable,' wanted citizenship

Arun Ram, TNN Nov 12, 2009, 06.30am IST

CHENNAI: Wilhelmus Weijdeveld, the 56-year-old Dutch national now in prison facing charges of child sexual abuse and supplying child pornography, had found that India suited him best' and even filed for citizenship as early as in 1999, thwarting the attempts of the police to drive him away from the country. He even filed a writ petition against the state of Tamil Nadu, after the Mamallapuram police asked him to leave the country. It was only after three years, on May 02, 2002, that he was arrested for sexually abusing five boys in an orphanage near Mamallapuram. Out on bail, Wilhelmus was arrested again from his Choolaimedu den in Chennai on November 7, 2009 following an Interpol tip-off that he was uploading child pornography on the internet.

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Voetballer Rafael van Rijn is opgetogen teruggekeerd uit Brazilië na de hereniging met zijn Braziliaanse familie.

Voetballer Rafael van Rijn is opgetogen teruggekeerd uit Brazilië na de hereniging met zijn Braziliaanse familie. foto Cord Otting

Voetballer Rafael van Rijn is opgetogen teruggekeerd uit Brazilië na de hereniging met zijn Braziliaanse familie. foto Cord Otting

Weerzien met Braziliaanse familie

ACHTERBERG - Rafael van Rijn werd onlangs na achttien jaar herenigd met zijn Braziliaanse familie. Voor de speler van VVA’71 ging een gekoesterde wens in vervulling.

Redactie 12-11-09, 11:00 Laatste update: 30-03-17, 09:10 Bron: degelderlander

Montana churches take on challenge in Ethiopia

Montana churches take on challenge in Ethiopia

November 11th, 2009 at 11:01 am |

By SUSAN OLP

BILLINGS, MONTANA (Billings Gazette) — Harvest Church's African journey began two years ago at a leadership summit. Pastors from the Billings Heights church watched a stellite feed of a talk by British screenwriter and director Richard Curtis. Curtis, a humanitarian, has raised nearly $1 billion for charitable causes.

"He was showing poverty around the world, especially needy kids," said Tim Weidlich, teaching pastor at Harvest.

Curtis aired a two-minute clip of a young girl in India as she unfurled a blanket on a sidewalk and lay down to sleep. All the while, people walked by without a second glance.

"We thought, 'We can't live with that happening, but we can't do everything. What can we do?' " Weidlich said.

After six months of research, Weidlich and a team of 15 lay people chose to focus on relieving the suffering of or-phans in Ethiopia, in east Africa.

"That country has easily the greatest need," he said. "It's the second-most impoverished nation in Africa, with 4.6 million orphans and 250,000 homeless orphans in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia."

The church decided to take a two-part approach: do humanitarian aid projects in Addis Ababa to help the orphans survive and become productive members of society, and to adopt youngsters from that country and bring them to Billings.

The church wasn't alone in that decision. Journey Church, a daughter congregation of Harvest in Bozeman, decided to partner with Harvest on the project.

Team visits Ethiopia

Weidlich led a team, which included the Rev. Brian Hopkins, pastor of Journey Church, on a trip to Ethiopia last November. Out of that came a connection with Bright Hope School in Addis Ababa and with Christian World Adoption out of Flat Rock, N.C., which operates four orphanages in Ethiopia.

The team also returned with video that was incorporated into a presentation pastor Vern Streeter unveiled to the Harvest congregation in late March. Streeter issued the challenge to join in the humanitarian effort the church called Ethiopia Hope.

Eleven families decided to adopt one or more children. And a team of 13 people volunteered to travel to Addis Ababa to partner with Bright Hope to dig a well, build a security fence and help the school develop a farm that will teach the students a trade, provide food the school and help it make extra money to live on.

The school has 2,400 students – about a fourth are orphans. The team left Oct. 30 for the trip and will be in Africa for 12 days.

They already have begun to blog about their efforts there.

"This morning I didn't know if things had fully hit me yet," team member Heidi Scheie wrote on Wednesday. "Then I wondered if my brain would allow me to process the magnitude of the poverty that we are surrounded by, then I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. I wouldn't be able to function."

But the team has functioned, getting to know the people, getting the work done and trying to make a difference, said team member Kyle Reynolds. Fifty-five local people joined the team in building the fence that only the day before had seemed like an overwhelming task, Reynolds said.

"We did it, and we did it together … land, culture, an ocean, or even language could (not) stop a group of people wanting to make difference in one of the poorest countries in the world," he wrote.

Family expansion

Back in Billings, Tim and Kerry Davis decided to give up their almost-empty nest to adopt two Ethiopian brothers, Gabe, 12, and Max, 8. The Davises aren't strangers to adoption, having adopted daughter Sydney, 17, when she was a baby.

Tim and Kerry also have two sons, Taylor, 23, and Garrett, 22. Tim said it was always a goal of his and Kerry's to expand their family.

"And Sydney was the greatest advocate of doing it," Tim said, sitting in a conference room at Harvest Church with Kerry, Weidlich, Susan Peterson, the adoption program coordinator, and Jon Ekker, who helped organize a fundraising concert to cover adoption costs. Both Peterson and Ekker and their spouses also are adopting orphans.

Adoption is arduous and expensive, Peterson said. The process takes anywhere from eight to 18 months, and the cost per child is about $25,000.

That's why Ethiopia Hope is sponsoring a concert Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium, to help defray costs for the adopting families. It also put on dinners, lunches and a garage sale in the spring.

Adopting can't be an emotional response to the needs of the children, Peterson said.

"This is a lifelong commitment," she said. "I'm so impressed with the thoughtful approach of these people. They're fully committed to the process and fully committed to the children."

The church is walking through the adoptions with each of the families. It also has established a support group for the parents to share with and encourage each other, and for the adoptees to spend time together.

Kerry and Tim left for Ethiopia on Aug. 29 and returned with the boys on Sept. 6. The youngsters, enrolled at Independent School, are learning to speak English, and they communicate in other ways, with their hands and their expressions.

Adjusting to Billings

They're doing well, Kerry said. They fit well in the neighborhood, playing with the other boys who live on their block.

"We didn't get these kids as babies," she said. "But they are adjusting. They had a life before us, but kids are universal. They do all the same things."

Max already has earned the title of "Hero of the Week" at school. The boys love to wrestle, enjoy riding bikes and both are talented at soccer.

"Most importantly, they're just part of our family," Kerry said.

Weidlich said Ethiopia Hope has long-term goals. After volunteers complete their work with Bright Hope, the church plans to partner with a church in Addis Ababa that works with orphans.

Harvest also has a goal for families in the church to adopt about 50 orphans altogether, Weidlich said. That will develop a population of Ethiopians in Billings, he said.

The idea, too, will be to involve the youngsters, as they grow up, in Harvest's future work in Ethiopia, Weidlich said. Someday, some of them may even return to their home country as doctors or humanitarians.

"We see this as a cycle," he said, "with them impacting our country and our country impacting theirs, so it's not one-sided."

The New Testament book of James exhorts the church to reach out to widows and orphans. That's the bottom line, Weidlich said.

"That's what it's kind of about for us."

(Susan Olp can be reached at solp@billingsgazette.com)