FFIA - Orphanage information

Orphanage information

Over the years, FFIA has collaborated with around twenty orphanages and a few hospitals with specially established departments for abandoned children. Some collaborations have been very long-lasting, such as with Asha Sadan in Mumbai, ISRC in Kolkata and SOFOSH in Pune. We have collaborated with both private and state orphanages. In the latter part of the 1980s, licensing requirements were introduced for Indian organizations to work with international adoptions. Many state and even private orphanages could not pass the complicated procedure required to obtain a license. In many cases, therefore, children were transferred to the licensed orphanages in order for the adoption to take place.

When the Indian central authority CARA changed the rules in 2012, it was no longer possible to have a direct collaboration between us and the Indian organizations. According to the new rules, it is CARA that decides from which orphanage a family seeking adoption will receive a child. Thus, our opportunities for in-depth knowledge of and good cooperation with the Indian orphanages were impaired.

City, Orphanage

Cooperation time

Quantity

Mumbai 1980- 158

Juvenile court 1980-1985 90

Rescue Home Asha sadan 1980-2010 92

Additional Remand Home 1980-1983 46

Shree Manav Seva Sangh 1980-1982 13

Non-registered orphanage 7

Pune 113

SOPHOS 1988-2014 112

Preet Mandir 2000 1

Gujarat 73

Mahipatram Rupram Ashram 1982-2006 63

State Home for Woman, Baroda 1986 3

State Home for Woman, Ahmedab 1987-1989 4

State Home for Woman, Surat 1988-1989 1

Kathiawar Nirashrit Balashram, Rajkot 1983 1

South India (Tamil Nadu) 92

GKF, Grace Kennett Foundation 1988-2001 23

SOCSEAD, Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) 1985-1990+2014 29

Nazareth Home for Children, Thanjavur 1984-1995 23

Mercy Home, Madurai 1992-1996+2014 4

Faith Home, Chennai, Madras 1983-1990 13

Andhra Pradesh 22

Kugler Hospital, Guntur 1981-1984 14

Grifford Memorial Hospital, Nuzvid 1981-1984 6

ICSW, Hyderabad 1990-1993 2

West Bengal 324

ISRC, Indian Society for Rehabilitation of Children 1983-2011 324

Bangalore 20

Destitute Children's Ark 1985-1986 20

Kerala 2

Betel Girl's Town Cochin 1987 2

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