Adoptions flop, the "Enzo B" Onlus withdraws: mocked families
Adoptions flop, the "Enzo B" Onlus withdraws: mocked families
Couples in vain waiting for a child will be assisted by Rome
of OTTAVIA GIUSTETTI
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September 16, 2018
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Adoptions flop, the "Enzo B" Onlus withdraws: mocked families
Stefano Bernardi and Cristina Nespoli
It is a descending parable that does not stop Enzo B, the institution for international adoptions that in Piedmont for many years was a true institution but that since 2012 at least, has been overwhelmed by the financial troubles of its founder, Stefano Bernardi. The adoption case in Ethiopia was the damnation of Enzo B: dozens of families who had entrusted to the agency assignments for adoptions in Africa have made a complaint saying that they have been cheated, that they have paid amounts of thousands of euros for practices, without never be able to complete them.
After an interminable ordeal - between lawsuits in the courts around Italy, the Turin prosecutor's office that opened an investigation, a dispute in Rome with the Cai, the commission for international adoptions of the presidency of the Council of Ministers - yesterday, on the Cai website, the news appeared that in the environment had been running for months: "The Enzo B agency has communicated a project to close its business that will be submitted to the International Adoption Commission and which provides targeted solutions to individual countries in order to define the largest number of proceedings in progress The Commission will take responsibility for the proceedings that will remain pending and will convene the interested couples ".
In short, Enzo B closes its doors, at least with the characteristics it has maintained over the last 25 years, and it will be the CAI that will take care of the families with an outstanding mandate, according to procedures that have not yet been defined."The news released by the Commission is imprecise - but the entity writes through its lawyer, Elena Giacoia - Enzo B will continue in its social commitment.The choice not to continue the activity in the field of international adoptions is instead matured also in the light of heavy defamatory actions that the association has suffered in recent years and which have compromised the serenity to operate in such a sensitive sector ".Enzo B survives, in short, but abandons the world of adoptions. Stefano Bernardi, the kaleidoscopic social entrepreneur who had invested too many projects, and perhaps too ambitious, for at least two decades with the support of the city's politicians, was eventually overwhelmed by his bulimia. And with the most delicate enterprise, the one that in 2004 had inaugurated together with the volcanic companion, Cristina Nespoli, as a pioneer of the intentional adoptions in Africa.
As long as luck did not turn his back on him and adoptions became a way to make money and keep the castle of the cooperatives standing up. This summer's news is that even the Mongolfiera company, the Turin Eye, of which the non-profit organization Enzo B is a majority shareholder, does not sail in good waters. After the bankruptcy procedure, the court has asked for bankruptcy. The main cause of the disruption would be the purchase by Bernardi of an airship that has never been able to fly because there was no money to buy the "gondola", that is the passenger ship. After the bankruptcy procedure, the court has asked for bankruptcy. The main cause of the disruption would be the purchase by Bernardi of an airship that has never been able to fly because there was no money to buy the "gondola", that is the passenger ship. After the bankruptcy procedure, the court has asked for bankruptcy. The main cause of the disruption would be the purchase by Bernardi of an airship that has never been able to fly because there was no money to buy the "gondola", that is the passenger ship.